Thomas Edwin Gibson Harris was a little baby boy who was found dead, wrapped in a newspaper. He was discovered in Torquay on February 15, 1865. It turned out he was the son of Mary Jane Harris. It also transpired that Miss Harris had actually farmed out the poor little child to a woman called Charlotte Winsor for three shillings a week. More here.
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