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Age: 0

Sex: female

Date: 26 Sep 1904

Place: Hackney Churchyard, London

The body of a newly-born female child was found in Hackney Churchyard.

It was found with two bootlaces tied tightly round it's neck.

A pin had also been found driven through the laces and buried into the flesh at the back of the neck.

A doctor said that death was due to strangulation, with the baby having been murdered soon after death.


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see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 26 September 1904