The Preston Guardian, Saturday, June 12, 1869.
DEAD BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN
A POND NEAR A CONVENT AT
BLACKPOOL.
On Sunday evening last, as some of
the inmates at
the convent of The
Sisters of the Holy Child" were out walking
in the grounds adjoining the Convent house,
on Raikes-hill, Blackpool, they discovered
what seemed to be a bundle, floating in a
pond.
Having got it out, it was
found to be the
body of an infant. The police authorities
were communicated with, and on Tuesday an inquest was held on a body, at the
police-station, Blackpool, before M. Myres. Esq., coroner, and after the
evidence had been given, the jury returned a verdict that "The child found
in the pond
was stillborn."
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