BABIES’ BODIES
EIGHT FOUND ON UNDERTAKER'S PREMISES
DISCOVERY BY ADELAIDE POLICE
ADELAIDE. March 3,
The police took possession of the decomposed bodies of eight babies which were found scattered around an undertaker’s workshop in the suburbs. Some of the babies are believed to have been dead for nine months. The bodies were found in cardboard boxes and wrapped in newspapers. Although some are believed to have been stillborn, a pathologica.l examination suggests that others had lived some hours. One appeared to be about three weeks’ old!
The discovery was made when the police went to arrest the undertaker on a warrant for the non-payment of a debt following a judgment given against him in the local court. While looking for the proprietor, the police went to the workshop, and on lifting the lid from a cardboard box saw the body of a baby. Other bodies were found under work benches and in odd corners.
The undertaker is understood to have claimed that he had warrants to bury in each case. He was taken to the Adelaide Gaol to serve a 10 days’ sentence for the non-payment of the debt.
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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189BABIES’ BODIES Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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