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Ref NoOBJ/PAM/1/345
TitlePress cutting relating to Jones, a boy with 'fins' for arms
Date15 Dec 1822
Description Of ItemCutting is a report that a boy named Jones had been arrested under a charge of vagrancy. He had been found on London Bridge, surrounded by a crowd who were marvelling at his mis formed arms, which resembled fins, and foot, which more closely resembled a hand. Jones was brought before the magistrate, but released after his brother explained how he had been abandoned on the bridge.
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