Los Angeles ? Remains of two fetuses wrapped in 1930s newspapers and placed in doctor’s bags were found inside an unclaimed steamer trunk by women cleaning out the basement of a 1924 apartment building that’s being converted to condominiums, authorities and witnesses said.

The remains were discovered late Tuesday in a 4-foot-tall green trunk in a four-story brick building in the Westlake district, a once-elegant early 20th century neighborhood west of downtown.

The trunk was inscribed with the initials JMB and also contained a certificate giving “Miss Jean Barrie” membership to the Peter Pan Woodland Club mountain resort, a typing manual bearing the signature “Jean M. Barrie,” ticket stubs from the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, photos of a wedding and other items.

Two women who found the remains called 911 and coroner’s officials began investigating, leaving residents to speculate about the trunk’s owner, the possibility of secret abortions in the era before the procedures were legal and an odd fact: Peter Pan was created by Scottish author James M. Barrie, who died in 1937.