Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 13 May 1948
Place: Cemetery Road, Swinton, Manchester
The mummified body of a baby was found in a case at a house in Cemetery Road in Swinton.
It was found by a man who lived in the house wrapped up in cloth and laid on straw and locked inside a wickerwork basket. He said that the case had belonged to his wife who had died in January 1948.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 13 May 1948
see Unsolved 1948