Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 5 May 1917
Place: River Don, Eastwood Bridge, Eastwood Vale, Rotherham
The body of a newly-born female child was found by some workmen in the River Don at Eastwood Bridge.
The child had been wrapped up in a coloured linen cloth in which a hammer head was found.
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see Sheffield Evening Telegraph - Saturday 05 May 1917