BABY’S BODY POSTED
LABELLED “WITH CARE” AN ADDRESS IN DUBLIN LONDON, Feb. 16. (Received Feb. 17, at- 5.5 p.m.) At the inquest on the body of a baby posted from a Leeds shop to an address in Dublin, the jury returned a verdict of death owing to post-natal neglect. The postman was unaware of the contents of the parcel, which was wrapped in newspaper and labelled “ With care,” until a shop hand’s inquiry led him to open it. when he saw a baby’s head. The body bore no marks of violence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23118, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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