THE DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS AT BIRMINGHAM: Ann Pinsent, the midwife upon whose premises eleven skeletons of infants were discovered, was brought before the Birmingham magistrates this afternoon on a charge of concealment of birth. The police stated that they had not been able to trace the body of the child in question, and that the other bodies were decomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged, but fined 40s. and costs for not registering a birth at her house.
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