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| | Suspected Child Murder 1885 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | The child, which was apparently about two years old, was laid in the water with his head and shoulders under a curb stone.- Yesterday, Grace Isherwood, wife of John Isherwood, farmer, Newton, and Isabella Gardiner, her sister, were taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the murder. |
 | | Isherwood is the mother of the child, but Gardiner has made a statement to the effect that she had had the child to nurse the last four months, but gave it back to its mother, who was a stranger, on Saturday night, at Slaidburn. |
 | | He was of the of opinion that the child died from asphyxia, or the prevention of air into the lungs. |
| www.slaidburn.org.uk /suspected_child_murder_1885.htm (2898 words) |
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