HORRIBLE AFFAIR NEAR BIRMINGHAM: ELEVEN SKELETONS FOUND: On Thursday, at the Birmingham Police Court a midwife, named Ann Pinsent, living at Nechells, near Birmingham, was charged, on remand, with concealing the birth of a child of an unmarried woman, named Reader. — Mr. J. Herbert appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Town Council. It appeared from his statement that some weeks ago, while a number of workmen were engaged in excavating close to the prisoner’s house, they came across a box containing the remains of an infant. Information was given to the police, and it was found that the young woman Reader had been confined at the prisoner’s house on the 15th January last, and that the child had lived for some time, but had not been registered, and that no one knew how it had been disposed of. Since the arrest of the prisoner, counsel stated, further excavations had resulted in the discovery of no fewer than eleven skeletons of infant children in the garden adjoining the prisoner’s house. — Detective Moundord said it had been known for a long time that the prisoner was attending numbers of young women in the capacity of midwife at her house, but no one knew what had become of the children. — The police not having completed their investigation, the prisoner MO remanded for a week.
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