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Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box

 

Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box

12 August 1905

A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting the discovery of the body of a baby in a cardboard box on the Aldridge Road. The child was not identified and was found to have been strangled.

From the G.H. Osborne collection of newscuttings.

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Related Themes:
1901 - 1913 (Edwardian)
Death
Perry Barr
Pregnancy, Childcare & Parenting

Image courtesy of: Birmingham Central Library

Image Credits:

Donor Ref: ' L93.2 G H Osborne Collection  (15/3103)'
Source: Local Studies & History Department; Birmingham Central Library
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