Age: 0
Sex: male
Date: 8 Aug 1917
Place: 71 Hartington Road, Liverpool
A baby died from a wound to the back of its throat after being born in a coal cellar.
The child's 22-year-old mother was tried for murder but acquitted after it was heard that accident could not be ruled out.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 52/267
see Liverpool Echo - Thursday 27 September 1917
see Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 01 November 1917
see Unsolved 1917