Birmingham: THE DISCOVERY OF SKELETONS AT BIRMINGHAM. Ann Pinsent, the midwife upon whose premises 11 skeletons were recently discovered, was brought before the Birmingham magistrates yesterday on a charge of concealment of birth. The police stated that they had been able to trace the body of the child in question, but that the other bodies were decomposed beyond identity. The prisoner was discharged with respect to the more serious accusation, but fined 40s and costs for registering a birth at her house.
[see similar Manchester Evening News: Thursday 8th August 1878 & Lakes Chronicle and Reporter: Saturday 10th August 1878]
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