TY  - BOOK
AU  - Budrikis,Stella
TI  - The Edward Street baby farm
SN  - 9781925816099
U1  - 364.15232 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Fremantle, WA
PB  - Fremantle Press
KW  - Mitchell, Alice
KW  - Infanticide
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Perth
KW  - Women murderers
KW  - Trials (Infanticide)
KW  - Foster home care
KW  - Perth (W.A.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "The murder trial that gripped  a city" --cover; Bibliography: pages 235-238
N2  - Early in 1907, Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of five-month-old Ethel Booth. During the inquest and subsequent trial, Perth's citizens were horrified to learn that at least thirty-seven infants had died in Mitchell's care in the previous six years. It became clear that she had been running a 'baby farm', making a profit out of caring for the children of single mothers and other 'unfortunate women'. But there was more to the story than the court case or the newspapers revealed. This true crime book looks at events leading up to the trial, and follows the lives of the key players in the tragedy: Alice Mitchell, health inspector Harriet Lenihan and children's specialist Dr Edward Officer
ER  -