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Age: 16 Days

Sex: male

Date: 29 Sep 1909

Place: Regents Canal, London

A child was found wrapped in brown paper in the Regents Canal on 14 September 1908. It lived for another 15 days but died from exhaustion and blood poisoning.

A woman accompanied by a man was seen to throw the parcel into the canal.


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

see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

see Western Times - Saturday 02 October 1909

see Unsolved 1909