Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 4 Jun 1955
Place: Hazel Wood, Stallsfield, Faversham
The body of a newly-born female child was found in Hazel Wood, Stallsfield near Faversham on Saturday 28 May 1955 at about 2.20pm by a woodsman.
The body of the child was found under a sack by the woodsman, who had lived in Valley Cottages in Stalisfield, at the foot of a tree about six feet off a footpath and about 80 yards from the road. He said that when he went to look at the sack and opened it that he saw a child's hand and then went off to telephone the police.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald - Saturday 04 June 1955, p4
see East Kent Gazette - Friday 09 September 1955
see Unsolved 1955