Baby

The body of a newly born male child was found at a brickyard in Mitcham on the afternoon of Saturday 20 September 1924.

It was found in a lonely spot in the brickfield in Willow Lane by a 28-year-old man that had worked at the brickyard. He said that on the Saturday forenoon, about 11.30am, he had been sent on an errand and took a shortcut along an unused footpath when he saw a parcel lying in an excavated part of the brickfield. He said: