William Davies Griffiths Heyes

William Davies Griffiths Heyes was found dead in a cellar on 31 July 1924.

His mother was charged with his murder but the charge was later dismissed.

It was thought that he had died five years earlier in 1920.

An open verdict was returned.

William Heyes had died in the house where his mother had formerly been a servant.

His mother said that she had advertised for someone to take the baby but that she had only got one answer and that they had wanted a large sum of money and she had no money.

She said that she took the child from the nursing home and back to her place of service but that it cried so much that she put it in a tin bath of cold water and held its head under the water, but then took him out and put him on her knees, saying that she thought that she had taken him out in time, however, he died.

She said that she then put his body in the cellar.

However, the medical evidence failed to show the cause of death.