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The Legend of Jack the Ripper Ch8
On Sunday 30th September, the body of another prostitute, called Elizabeth Stride was discovered at about 1 am in Dutfield's Yard, inside the gateway of 40 Berner Street, Whitechapel. In this case, however, the body was not mutilated, it seemed as if the killer might have been interrupted, perhaps by Louis Diemschutz who found the body and later gave a full account of the events leading up to and in the immediate aftermath of his discovery of Elizabeth Stride's body.
A resident of 28 Berner Street. Following the murder of Elizabeth Stride, stated to the press:
Yes; I was one of those who first saw the murdered woman. It was about a quarter to one o'clock, I should think when I heard a policeman's whistleblowing and came down to see what was the matter. In the gateway, two or three people had collected, and when I got there I saw a short, dark young woman lying on the ground with a gash between four and five inches long in her throat. I should say she was from 25 to 28 years of age. Her head was towards the north wall, against which she was lying. She had a black dress on, with a bunch of flowers pinned on the breast. In her hand, there was a little piece of paper containing five or six cachuses. The body was found by a man whose name I do not know - a man who goes out with a pony and barrow, and lives up the archway, where he was going, I believe, to put up his barrow on coming home from the market. He thought it was his wife at first, but when he found her safe at home he got a candle and found this woman. He never touched it till the doctors had been sent for.
The little gate is always open, or, at all events, always unfastened. There are some stables up there - Messrs. Duncan, Woollatt, and Co.'s, I believe and there is a place to which a lot of girls take home sacks which they have been engaged in making. None of them would be there, though, after about one on Saturday afternoon. None of us recognised the woman, and I do not think she belonged to this neighbourhood. She was dressed very respectably. There seemed to be no wounds on the body.
Although initially, this letter was considered to be hoax letters the discovery of the body of Catherine Eddowes in...
A resident of 28 Berner Street. Following the murder of Elizabeth Stride, stated to the press:
Yes; I was one of those who first saw the murdered woman. It was about a quarter to one o'clock, I should think when I heard a policeman's whistleblowing and came down to see what was the matter. In the gateway, two or three people had collected, and when I got there I saw a short, dark young woman lying on the ground with a gash between four and five inches long in her throat. I should say she was from 25 to 28 years of age. Her head was towards the north wall, against which she was lying. She had a black dress on, with a bunch of flowers pinned on the breast. In her hand, there was a little piece of paper containing five or six cachuses. The body was found by a man whose name I do not know - a man who goes out with a pony and barrow, and lives up the archway, where he was going, I believe, to put up his barrow on coming home from the market. He thought it was his wife at first, but when he found her safe at home he got a candle and found this woman. He never touched it till the doctors had been sent for.
The little gate is always open, or, at all events, always unfastened. There are some stables up there - Messrs. Duncan, Woollatt, and Co.'s, I believe and there is a place to which a lot of girls take home sacks which they have been engaged in making. None of them would be there, though, after about one on Saturday afternoon. None of us recognised the woman, and I do not think she belonged to this neighbourhood. She was dressed very respectably. There seemed to be no wounds on the body.
Although initially, this letter was considered to be hoax letters the discovery of the body of Catherine Eddowes in...
