1/ Newark Railway Station Suicide, April 1870
2/ Rampton, (Childs Body in Trent) April 1884
3/ Nottingham Canal, March 1909 (Mutilated Body Found)
A woman’s leg was fished out of the Nottingham Canal and when later it was dragged, a top half of the body was discovered without any legs. Foul play was ruled out when the surgeon who examined the cadaver, stated that they were torn off, probably by barge propellers. It was also proved that she was dead when the mutilation occurred. The body remains unidentified. The verdict was “Found Drowned”
4/ Trent Railway Station Suicide, Nottingham, May 1867
A young man named Buckoll arrived at the Trent Railway Station and went off to the toilets. Time was passing and the porter hadn’t seen the fella come out, so he decided to see if he was OK. The porter went into the toilets and found him lying on the ground with a knife wound on his throat. He was taken to Nottingham General but died the next day. Buckoll had been despondent for some time and its thought that his recent medical exam failures were the cause of his suicide.
(Trent Station was in Derbyshire strictly speaking, but a few miles from Nottingham)
5/ River Trent, (Infant Remains) December 1880
Human remains were discovered in a cellar in Nottingham and at the same time, a dead child was recovered from the banks or the Trent. An examination was made and it is strongly believed that the young woman, Durant, had given birth in her mother’s house. This got the alarm bells ringing and a search of the cellar in the Durant’s lately occupied, literally dug up some ghastly finds. About seven or eight infants have already been dug up and even more grisly is the finding of a “bricked-up cavity”, and therein were two babies skulls.
6/ Wellesley Street Suicide, Nottingham, March 1892
7/ Mansfield Murder, January 1842
19-year-old dressmaker, Mary Hallam was murdered in Mansfield.John Jones, aka Samuel Moore, shoemaker, came to the area about three years ago and lodged near to Mary’s house. Jones and Mary started to see each other but her parents told him to stay away, he was bad news and a borderline alcoholic. Jones coaxed her into visiting him at work but she made it clear that she wouldn’t marry him. Jones grabbed a knife and cut her throat then left her to bleed to death. He then went out for a few beers with his mates and acted as though nothing had happened. Mary’s father was worried sick and he and others went to look for her. They found her at Jones’s workshop, then he was arrested and then confessed to her murder. Jones was charged with wilful murder at the relatively young age of twenty-four. (Was he hanged?)
8/ Nottingham Skeletons, April 1900
In Nottingham city centre some labourers were working near the front porch of a hotel, when they came upon two skeletons side by side, about a foot below the surface. The medical officer stated that he believed them to have been mutilated then buried as the bones were crushed and holes found in the skulls. No sign of any coffins suggests that these two were buried in a hurry and are suspected murder victims. (How old? Identity found? Where are they now?)
9/ Nottingham Homicide, November 1885
10/ Arnold Murders, July 1909
The inquest on the bodies of Matilda Lambert and her three children, John aged eight; Anne aged five and Samuel aged only two, reveals that the murderer Samuel Atherley tried to commit suicide by cutting his own throat. A coal hammer had been found and the medical examiner said that all of the dead had been smashed on the head with the hammer. Matilda was smacked on the head, lost her bearings or consciousness then had her throat slit by Atherley. The sister of the murdered woman, Mrs Sarah Sabina Watson, stated that her sister had left him many times because of his violent mood swings. (Did he survive?)
11/ Nottingham, (Suicide Revival), June 1845
Richard Fowler a publican at the Masons Arms, Leeming Street in Mansfield who was a dabbler in horse trading left Mansfield and went to Nottingham to pay a Mr Chesters at the Reindeer Inn on Wheelergate for a horse, then went to Mr Weaver at the Talbot Inn where he bedded down for the night. The “boots” went to call him in the morning, but no answer, so they entered and found him in bed, not moving a muscle. The doctor thought he’d been poisoned so they pumped his stomach but nothing came out. They took him to the hospital and applied a good old Victorian cure for most ailments, electricity! He jolted up in bed and exclaimed “Oh God!”, then was well enough to have a cuppa, and then fully revived. He told staff he’d attempted suicide with laudanum and he was carted off to a lunatic asylum. Before going out that day, he’d told his wife that he was going to kill himself but she just laughed it off as if he were attention-seeking.
12/ Nottingham Gaol Suicide, April 1870
A prisoner at the borough gaol in Nottingham, George Moss, who had been given a year inside for “unnatural assaults upon his daughters”, killed himself by hanging. A warder found the dead man in the blacksmiths’ shop where he’d been on working duty, hanging on a staircase.He was about fifty years old and had only been there three months.
13/ Cockflett Hill Hunting Fatality, November 1885
14/ Colwick Hall, (Child Manslaughter), December 1857
A tragic accident occurred at Colwick, when a little girl named Mary Taylor, only eight years old, whose parents had died so she was adopted by her uncle, Richard Caunt, a gamekeeper at Colwick Hall. Mr Caunt went out one morning and rather stupidly left a loaded gun lying around, then Mrs Caunt went out and left the five-year-old daughter and Mary in the care of the nephew, James Caunt. He found the gun and started messing about and his cousin told him to stop messing around with a gun as it may be loaded. He told her it wasn’t, then tried to scare Mary by pointing it at her and it went off shooting her in the chest. Death was instantaneous. An inquest at Colwick Hall, where the accident occurred concluded that it was accidental but told the gamekeeper to keep his guns locked up in future and the boy was told off for messing about with the gun in the first place.
15/ Radcliffe Station Suicide, October 1908
A suicide at Radcliffe Station on the Great Northern Railway near Nottingham was the talk of the town. Frederick Tipler aged fifty-five had been incarcerated in the Nottingham Lunatic Asylum and was being escorted home by his wife and daughter. On the platform at Radcliffe Station, he saw an oncoming express and dived in front of it. When the body was recovered it was badly mangled and thankfully his death must have been instant.
16/ Nottingham Transvestite Suicide, August 1893
A 53-year-old labourer named Chambers was taking care of his sick wife who was bedridden, when he suddenly got hold of her clothes and went downstairs. An hour later he put them on and hung himself from the door, and even went as far as putting on her earrings.
17/ Peas Hill Road Murder, Nottingham, November 1881
18/Newark Railway Tragedy, June 1870 (Fifteen Dead in Train Accident)
A train from King’s Cross, London, was coming into Newark, when a goods train coming in the opposite direction, came off the tracks and went into the path of the passenger train. The result was fifteen dead and dozens injured, some seriously. (The end death toll was eighteen dead/forty injured). The goods train was a Manchester one, which had left Retford. The accident occurred about a mile south of Newark.
19/ Hyson Green, Nottingham, October 1889 (Suicide by Steam Roller)
This is one of the more remarkable suicides I’ve written about on this website! It happened at Hyson Green when a steamroller was being driven along a newly prepared road when suddenly a young man rushes out from the footpath and laid himself under the giant machine. They are not renowned for quick braking and before anyone could do anything, the roller had squashed the poor lad flat. Later on, it was revealed the name of the victim was Frederick William Perrons, a twenty-two-year-old clerk.
20/ Nottingham, (Child Neglect), September 7th, 1885
Nottingham, September 14th, 1885
At Nottingham Town Hall on Saturday, a single woman named Harriet Hitchcock was charged on remand with abandoning her children. The prisoner put her two illegitimate children, twins of six weeks old, in a hamper and placed in each of their mouths the nipple of a feeding bottle containing food and having addressed the hamper to a man at Beckenham in Kent, who she alleged is the father of the children and then forwarded it by the Great Northern Railway from Nottingham. At Cannon Street Station the cries of the children caused the officials to open the hamper and the babies were taken to the workhouse hospital.
21/ Ranskill, May 1891
A Somerset woman, Eliza Annie Hill, residing in Ranskill killed herself by taking prussic acid. This letter was found on her:
“Dear Mother- I am writing to say goodbye, for by the time you get this I shall be passed away. I am tired of life, and I cannot bring another life to share the misery I have borne and so I am simply going to take some poison to end it all. I should like to have seen you again, but that is past now. The workhouse people will put me away, and so don’t trouble anything about it. With very best love from your loving child, ELIZA.”
The chemist to whom she was a housekeeper in Ranskill, William Dutton, said that they had two children together and he’d promised marriage now and again. She wore a ring and pretended to be his wife. Dutton was condemned for his lax way of keeping his poisons, and his immorality and that he must bear the blame for her suicide.
22/ Nottingham Station, (Body in Parcel), December 1872
A parcel arrived at Nottingham Midland Railway Station, from Bath in the West Country. It had the address “Mr Turner, Cloak Room, Nottingham. To be called for.” Unfortunately, nobody bothered asking for the package and it began to give off an awful stench. Officials opened it and found a body of a full-grown child. Police are investigating the matter.
23/ Retford Suicide, June 1881
24/ Nottingham Lunatic Asylum Suicide, May 1887
In September 1886, Sarah Ann Shaw, a 42-year-old domestic servant was admitted suffering from melancholia. (Depression?) She told them that she had committed a terrible sin and her condition was hopeless. One morning she went missing but a search of the Asylum revealed her body in a bathroom, drowned. She got a ten-pound lump of coal, fastened it around her neck with apron strings then filled a bath and then plopped herself in it, face down.
25/ Gonalstone Railway Fatality, September 1846
A train was on its way to Lincoln when it started to judder up and down; the driver shut off the steam, and next thing he knew he was flung head first off the engine. Henry Glover the stoker, lost his footing and fell between the engine and the tender. The passengers started screaming and shouting and poor Henry could not be wangled out. Horses were used to eventually remove the engine and tender and he was rushed to Hospital. He was that badly mutilated even amputation was impossible and the lad died a few hours later.
26/ Nottingham Wife Murder, September 1885
A labourer named Frederick Mann is in custody at Nottingham charged with causing the death of his wife. It is alleged that on the 16th ult, Mann, on reaching home, flung his wife violently out of the room and then brutally kicked her. The woman was in a delicate condition at the time and she subsequently became seriously ill. Her depositions were taken by one of the borough magistrates on Monday, and sadly she died during the night.
27/ Pedge Level Crossing, Beeston? 1883
28/ Milton Street, Nottingham, September 1858
James Astley, a photographer, asked his wife to remind him to post a letter. She forgot and he told her off for her forgetfulness. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back, because she then walked up to the cupboard where he kept his photographic chemicals and took a swig from a bottle, then asked: “Do you think I have taken enough to kill me?”. He replied, “Why you have not taken any have you?”. With that, she fell down dead.
29/ Mansfield, (Concealing Birth) July 1852
This is a sinister case of a concealment of birth. The four who were implicated were Ann Rayworth, John Harvey, John Heald and Ann Gascoigne. About two months ago Rayworth gave birth to a child, and soon after the birth Harvey was digging in his garden at midnight one night. A small bundle was placed in the hole and then filled in. He went back to the house where Heald (a local quack) was. Ann Gascoigne (Rayworth’s mother) heard Heald say “How deep have you buried it?”, Harvey replied, “About a spade deep”. Later on, an argument broke out between mother and son, when the son in a moment of anger said he would tell someone where the kid was buried. Heald said, “If you say anything about it I will kill you”. The witness told police what had happened and then the garden was dug up and the little corpse taken to the morgue for examination.
30/ Gedling near Nottingham, June 1901 (Fatal Carriage Accident)
A large brake (carriage) with a group of schoolchildren from Bulwell was on its way to Hoveringham Ferry, where they were going to stop for a picnic and was going downhill at Gedling when the harness snapped, causing the driver to lose control. The horses galloped down the hill at a tremendous speed, then overturning at the bottom. A sixteen-year-old lass was killed outright and several others injured.
31/ Lenton Fatality, March 1898
On Friday, William Barrowcliffe, joiner aged about forty was at work upon a scaffold about fourteen feet in height, at some new villas which are in the process of being built upon the Derby Road at Lenton, when he fell to the ground and was instantly killed.
32/ Nottingham, February 1895 (Accidental Death)
33/ Sneinton, Nottingham, December 1880 (Children’s Remains)
Eliza and Kate Durant, mother and daughter, were charged with concealing a birth of a child. Police were searching the premises of Durant when they came upon the remains of several new-born children. In one spot there was something akin to a mini vault which contained bones and remains. Police couldn’t find Kate’s child but the mother gave herself up and soon after the daughter was arrested. The mother’s house was in Cottage Grove, off Walker Street, Sneinton. The two women legged it when police started asking questions. (Did they ever find the child?)
34/ Torworth Grange Suicide, near Retford, May 1873
A young man named John Lancaster, a farmer by trade, hung himself in one of his own chambers at Torworth Grange near Retford. The evidence was sketchy but it was adduced that a few days ago a favourite shepherd’s dog crossed his master’s path and he was so mad that he took it to the barn and hung it. Lancaster had been drinking for a number of days before he killed himself. The family doctor confirmed that he thought that the lad was insane.
35/ Nottingham, February 1879
Myra Widdowson aged sixteen, committed suicide, due to her feeling depressed about rumours that were going around that she had slept with her friends’ husband. Myra was a bridesmaid at their wedding and somehow these vicious rumours started to circulate, so she got some poison and took it. I hope the rumour-mongers were caught.
36/ Seven Stars Inn, Hucknall, June 1888 (Still there-on West Street)
37/ Nottingham, (Decomposing Body) July 1866
A policeman from the Nottinghamshire Constabulary named Beardsley, was fired for incompetency early in 1866. He was married and co-habited with another woman. Then a month ago he went missing, then the woman who he co-habited with asked the magistrates what she should do with his kids. One morning a man named Guy went into an abandoned house in Great Alfred Street, when he smelt something awful. It came from a W.C. and the door was jammed, but when forced open, he found the body of a man on the seat whose face had been eaten away by maggots. A bottle of Prussic acid was next to him and physically he could not be identified, but fortunately, papers and other bits and bobs were taken to be the property of Beardsley.
38/ Nottingham Synagogue Suicide, October 1859
At 6-30 p.m. an explosion rocked the synagogue staircase at Nottingham. An investigation revealed a man’s body on the bottom step and blood pouring from a head wound, with a gun next to the body. In his pockets were a lot of pellets and a couple of letters as well. He was a Jewish man by the name of Henry Abrahams, who turned up in Nottingham a while back in a state of destitution.
39/ Retford Workhouse Death, June 1895
40/ Nottingham Gaol Suicide, January 1870
Henry Sharpe was in Nottingham Town Gaol for eighteen months hard labour for bigamy. He clearly couldn’t take prison life, so he threw himself over the railings in the gaol and was caught by the neck by a warder, but he scrambled to get free and fell to the prison floor. He then ran up the steps and dived off onto a sky-light, around twenty-five feet high and this did the trick as he died next morning. In his cell he had written on a slate-“Rather than submit to be duped, I have done this-5th January 1870. Give love to all my friends, and tell my two brothers to keep clear of getting into any trouble to get into prison, it will ruin them. It will break my poor mother’s heart; give my love to her, and tell her that I was compelled to do it. I have not any blood in me. I have been dying upwards some time. I am in my sober senses, but it is tried to be made out I am not. My head is clear as ever it was.”
41/ Ratcliffe Gambler’s Suicide, May 1877
Thomas Newham, stocking maker aged fifty years and from Burton Joyce, like most Victorian men enjoyed a flutter at the bookmakers. On Whit Monday and Tuesday he went a handicap meeting at Sheffield and lost a s**tload of money. He still had a few quid left but was down in the dumps and then the next night he was at it again, but before he went, he gave his son a tenner and told him he was off to see his sister in Whittington in Derbyshire and wasn’t coming back, so he could have the home and all its contents. He never went, instead of going to Ratcliffe, over the Trent, where he went to a few pubs and then shot himself in the mouth with a revolver. There were a load of betting slips in his pockets and some letters. Newham was placed in an asylum many years ago and was thought to be insane.
42/ South Wheatley Murder, near Retford, November 12th, 1881
43/ South Wheatley Murder, December 10th, 1881
44/ Nottingham Double Murder, November 1900
In 1898 Charles Edward Canham arrived in Nottingham from Birmingham to take up the post of district agent for Gresham Assurance Company. The forty-nine-year-old was married and had eleven children to clothe and feed. One night, the youngest boy aged three years, slept with his mother, but the next morning as they didn’t make an appearance when one of his daughters went to knock on the door. The father told her not to disturb them as they were OK. When a few hours had gone by and still no sign of them, the elder kids decided to force open the door. Mrs Canham was lying on the bed with her face and head smashed in with a coal hammer. The child’s throat had been slashed with a carving knife. Meanwhile, the father had taken some poison and was in a semi-conscious state. (Did he survive?)
45/ Nottingham Murder, May 11th, 1885
A man named Joseph Tucker, a shoe riveter, is in custody in Nottingham for committing a dreadful assault upon a woman named Williamson with whom he lived. He went home on Saturday night in a drunken state and beat her severely, then poured some paraffin over her and deliberately set fire to her by lighting it with a match. The woman was fearfully burned and was taken to the hospital, where her depositions were taken yesterday. Last night she lay in a hopeless condition.
Nottingham Murder, May 16th, 1885
Elizabeth Williamson, whose paramour Edward Tucker is charged with unlawfully wounding her, died in the Nottingham General Hospital yesterday. On Saturday night while drunk, Tucker poured a quantity of paraffin all over her then set fire to it.
46/ Nottingham Murder, July 14th, 1885
47/ Nottingham Murder, August 3rd, 1885
Mr B.H.Cockayne, of Nottingham, who has been working to secure the commutation of the sentence of death passed on the man Tucker, for the murder of his paramour, Elizabeth Williamson, by pouring paraffin on her then setting light to her, has received a reply to a number of petitions to the effect that the Home Secretary has been unable to find any sufficient grounds to justify him advising Her Majesty to interfere with the due course of the law. The petitions alleged that the prisoner was so drunk at the time as to have no consciousness of what he was doing.
48/ Nottingham Murderer Execution, August 4th, 1885
49/ Gringley-on-the-Hill, (Motorcycle Fatality) May 1920
50/ Misterton/Stockwith Suicide, December 1897
51/ Walkeringham Murder, March 1860
Charles Spencer, a cattle-dealer, lived at Walkeringham, and his body was discovered in a ditch, not more than fifty yards from his front door by some labourers on their way to work. He had suffered two gunshot wounds to the face, plus he had his neck slashed twice, extending from the back of the head to the wind-pipe, dividing the carotid artery. Deceased had been to Gainsborough Market and had been paid a large sum of money and on his way back home, stopped off at the Walkerith Ferry pub. He was joined by three other men, Mr Anderson a farmer, John Fenton the landlord of the Three Shoes pub, Walkeringham and a labourer named James Fenton. They all crossed the Trent at 10-40 p.m., and after crossing the two Fentons went in another direction and Anderson saw him when he got home and carried on a bit further. John Fenton was taken into custody, having gun caps on his person and having bloodied clothes at home, being washed. (What happened after that?)
52/ Saundby Marsh Railway Death, November 1884
On Saturday a fatal accident occurred on the Great Eastern Railway near Gainsborough. A cottager named James Matthews, a resident at Bole, was with two grand-children driving some beasts across the line at Saundby Marsh when the two o’clock last train from Doncaster to Lincoln was due. A calf escaped down the line and Matthews, who was seventy years of age and very deaf, pursued it. The train at that time was travelling at high speed, struck the unfortunate man violently and death was instantaneous.
53/ Misterton/West Stockwith Tragedy, March 1900
A dreadful tragedy has been reported from near Gainsborough. The district relieving officer found an old and destitute bedridden woman, along with four destitute children in the village of West Stockwith. Nearby was the corpse of an infant who had died three days ago from typhoid. A search and further questioning concerning the whereabouts of the parents was partaken of. It was presumed the two of them had abandoned the waifs, but the bodies of the couple were discovered drowned in the idle Misterton Pumping Station.
54/ Bole Railway Crossing, April 1886 (Accidental Death)
55/ Newark Railway Tragedy, July 1870. (Public Meeting) June 21st 1870, two trains collided killing eighteen passengers and injuring forty others. The investigation found that an axle broke on the goods train, and the excursion train collided with the debris on the track.
56/ Nottingham Railway Station Fatality, August 1870.
57/ Radford, Nottingham (Fatal Explosion) September 1870
An inquest was held on Friday afternoon at Nottingham General Hospital, before Coroner Browne, on the body of Samuel Rice, who met with his death on the previous day. About six o’clock in the morning, as the workpeople employed by Messrs. Stevenson and Musson, of Radford, were assembling for work, they heard a loud crash, and it was then found that the boiler had exploded and that the deceased, who was a fireman, was fearfully scalded. He was rushed to the hospital, where every assistance was rendered to him. The unfortunate man lingered until night and then expired. Jury’s verdict- “Accidental Death”.
58/ Newark Boating Death, May 1902.
On Monday morning four members of the Newark Rowing Club went up the Trent in a small boat and put up sail near Farndon. A strong wind capsized the craft, precipitating the occupants into deep water. Two of the men only could swim, and they made a gallant effort to save their comrades, but unfortunately, Jack Castle, aged twenty, son of Mr Castle, coach-builder, Newark, was drowned.
59/ Suicide at the River Trent near Newark, March 1902 (Girl had allegedly been raped in Skegness)
60/ Two Drown on the River Trent, Colwick. October 1903.
A boating accident, resulting in the loss of two lives, which occurred on the River Trent at Colwick, near Nottingham, on Sunday afternoon, formed the subject of a coroner’s inquiry yesterday. The names of the deceased are William John Maddocks, a petty officer in the Royal Navy, who was home on furlough, and William Simpkin, a local civilian. At the time of the accident, Maddocks was rowing, and when, through a sudden movement of his companion, the boat capsized he made a gallant effort to swim ashore with Simpkin under his arms. A verdict of “Accidental Death” was returned.
61/ Murder/Suicide at Nottingham, October 1903.
Henry Smedley, a tinman, aged sixty, of Nottingham, yesterday attacked his son Frank, aged fourteen, with a table knife whilst in the boy’s bedroom and inflicted a deep gash in his throat, which proved to be fatal in a few minutes. The man afterwards cut his own throat and died almost immediately. The discovery of the bodies was made by Mrs Smedley, the only other occupant of the house, who was at the time engaged in the domestic duties downstairs. It is said that Smedley behaved strangely of late.
62/ Drowning in Retford Canal, February 1903.
63/ Jane Doe Dies on the Streets, Nottingham. October 1904. (A sad story that sums up life in the Victorian era)
64/ Midland Station Fatality, Nottingham. July 1904
65/ Man Cuts Throat of Granddaughter, Retford. September 1905
66/ Strange Death of a Child, Worksop. June 1905.
The three-year-old daughter of John Gillespie, pit sinker, of Worksop, has been drowned under strange circumstances. Her father, while fishing in the River Ryton, saw his little daughter disappear in some nettles. The child had slipped into a large drain and was carried by the current into an eighteen-inch drainpipe, where she became fast in the centre. The father secured a spade, and having dug the earth from the pipe, smashed it open with a hammer, but when the child was got out she was dead. At the inquest, on Tuesday a verdict of “Accidentally drowned” was returned.
67/ Fatal Fall From a Window, Forster Street, Nottingham. August 1905.
68/ Nottingham Wife Murder, March 1906. (Annie Brown Langstaff murdered by her husband)
69/ Drunken Quarrel Ends in Murder, Nottingham. December 1906 (The actual murder occurred in Hungerhill Road, Nottingham. Mary Hutchby was reprieved, from capital sentence to one of penal servitude for life. It was alleged she was subject to severe cruelty and the jury recommended mercy on the grounds of provocation)
70/ Murder in a Travel Agents, Nottingham. December 1906 (William Sanday murdered James Smith in a branch of Thomas Cook)
71/ Three Children Murdered, Nottingham. August 1907
A shocking tragedy took place in Nottingham on Tuesday night. A gardener, Stephen Ross, in the employ of Alderman F.R. Radford, of Cedar Lodge, Tunnel Road, The Park, in the absence of his wife, attacked four of his five children, cutting the throats of three, including a twelve-month-old baby, so badly that they died before medical assistance could be procured, wounding a fourth boy, and then cutting his own throat so severely that he was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
72/ Sad Death in a Village Chapel, Scrooby. March 1907
During service at the Wesleyan Chapel, Scrooby, on Sunday evening, some confusion was caused by the sudden and fatal illness of a young girl named Violet Bell. The deceased was eighteen years of age, and a native of Mattersey, near Retford, was in domestic service at Scrooby. She appears to have enjoyed good health, and it is supposed that heart failure was the immediate cause of death. As soon as it was seen what had happened, Dr Johnson was summoned, but the girl was past medical aid and seems to have expired at the time the service was interrupted.
73/ Attempted Murder/Suicide in Nottingham. September 1907
74/ Guard Killed at Retford Railway Station. August 1907
75/ Discovery of Human Remains, Nottingham. December 1880 ( In a terrace off Walker Street, Sneiton, named Cottage Grove. Police dug in the cellar and found the bodies of several new-born children. The cellar was a miniature cemetery)
