#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)

#286 - The Black Cap Farce (Edith McQuaid, Soho, UK)

On 1st January 1932, in the attic room of 27 Old Compton Street in Soho, 19-year-old domestic servant Edith McQuaid gave birth to a baby boy. Whether he died of natural causes, or she took his life by infanticide will never be known. But she wasn't alone. Edith was one of 1000s of women who concealed the pregnancy, the body of the dead babies or murdered them at birth across the United Kingdom, and yet, it wasn't there fault, as this national scandal had been raging for centuries.


  • Date: 1st of January 1932 (birth and death of her baby)
  • Location: attic, 27 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, UK, W1
  • Victim: 1 (name unknown)
  • Culprits: 1 (Edith McQuaid)
  • Method: infanticide / neonaticide


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