Wholesale Bay Farming: At the Birmingham Police court, Ann Pinsent, a midwife, living at Nochells, was charged with concealing the birth of a child of an unmarried woman, who had been confined at her house. Mr. Jesse Herbert (instructed by the Town Clerk) prosecuted and explained that since the prisoner was first arrested some extraordinary revelations had been made. The skeletons of no fewer than eleven infants had already been found buried in a garden adjoining the prisoner’s house. (Sensation.) The learned counsel added that the body of the child in question had not yet been traced, but it was known to have been born alive, and to have been seen alive some hours afterward. On the following day the child was alleged by the prisoner to have died from convulsions. The prisoner was remanded for a week.
[Northern Weekly Gazette: Saturday 3rd August 1878 & similar Liverpool Weekly Gazette: Saturday 3rd August 1878]
[see similar: Darlington & Richmond Herald: Saturday 3rd August 1878 & Sydenham Times: Tuesday 6th August 1878].
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