Age: 7 weeks
Sex: female
Date: 3 Sep 1917
Place: 55 Henrietta Street, Birmingham
Hilda Winifred Lee died during a burglary at her home whilst her mother, who had her in her arms, tried to stop some burglars.
Two men, a brasscaster and a labourer, were tried for her murder but acquitted. However, they were afterwards convicted of housebreaking and sentenced to three years' penal servitude.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 13/47
see Birmingham Mail - Saturday 08 December 1917
see Birmingham Mail - Friday 14 September 1917
see Birmingham Mail - Thursday 06 September 1917
see Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 08 December 1917
see Unsolved 1917
