Description:A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 12th November 1892. A short article which gives an account of the discovery of a human skeleton in Douglas Road. A small boy had alerted Detective Deacey to the skeleton on a rag-and-bone mans cart.
The owner of the cart claimed he had found it in an ash pit behind an empty house, 61 Douglas Road. On investigation it was found that the house was previously occupied by a doctor's widow who had asked a servant to throw the delapidated medical specimen out.
Taken from the G.H. Osborne newscuttings collection.