A chance meeting with a stranger at a Glasgow train station in 1888 left Paisley woman Miss Dunsmore with a child’s body in her house in Canal Street in Paisley.
It was on Saturday last during January 1888 a married woman, the daughter of Mr George Dunsmore, residing at Canal Street, Paisley was awaiting at the Glasgow station for the train to Paisley.
She was accosted by a young woman carrying a parcel, who stated she was going to Paisley in search of her brother, who had left Ireland for that place.
They went into the same carriage, and as the stranger stated that she was not acquaint with any one from Paisley, she was taken to the house of her companion’s father.
She waited there all Sunday, and on Monday afternoon went out, accompanied by Mrs Dunsmore and her daughter in search of her brother, she said, was a cab driver. After calling at several places without ascertaining any information about the man, they parted.
In their absence, Mr George Dunsmore had opened the bundle which the woman had left, and found in it, wrapped up in a copy of a Glasgow paper, the body of a full grown child. Information was immediately lodged with police, who took possession of the body, and had it conveyed to the Infirmary, where a post-mortem was made by Dr McKinlay, the result of which has not yet been transpired.
The young woman who left the child’s apparently about twenty years of age, good looking, and rather genteel in her appearance, but has not yet been apprehended. She had gave her name as Mary Graham.
It’s said the child can often be seen roaming Canal Street at night, next time you walk down the street at night just keep your eyes open !.
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