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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.


*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

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