Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 21 May 1902
Place: Brownside House, Alston, Cumbria
The body of a newly-born child was found in a parcel that a domestic servant, the mother, had given another servant to burn at Brownside House in Alston.
The mother was indicted for murder, but doctor said that he doubted that she cut the child's throat and stabbed him in the stomach wilfully and the charge against her was ignored..
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 52/70
see Carlisle Journal - Friday 27 June 1902
see Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Saturday 05 July 1902
see Unsolved 1902
