Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 27 Oct 1921
Place: 143 Burgess Street, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
The body of a newly-born child was found dead in an ash heap at the back of 143 Burgess Street in Grimsby on 27 October 1921.
Two sisters were tried for its murder at the Lincolnshire Assizes on Friday 3 February 1922 but the judge said that it could not be determined which of the two women had carried out the act and ordered the jury to acquit the women.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 13/52
see National Library of Scotland
see Nottingham Journal - Friday 03 February 1922
see Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 01 December 1921
see Lincolnshire Echo - Thursday 08 December 1921
see Unsolved 1921
