Mary Anne "Polly" Nichols Mary Anne Nichols was found dead on Aug. 31, 1888 between 3:30 and 4:00 A.M. by a porter on his way to work. At first, it appeared to the porter that the woman was just laying down in the street unconscious. Police officer John Neil was summoned to the scene minutes after the body was found. The light from his lamp revealed that the woman was in fact dead with a slashed throat. Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn was performing a surgery when he was called to make an offi

cial examination of the body. After the examination was complete he pronounced the woman dead by means of a slashed throat. He also took special note that the body was still warm, indicating that the victim had been dead perhaps only minutes before being discovered.

Inspector Frederick Aberline of the Great Scotland Yard was assigned to supervise the investigation, which involved hundreds of policemen. Little information was found though, due to the lack of cooperation of citizens of the neighborhood. 3. Elizabeth Stride, 4. Catherine Eddows Elizabeth Stride was found dead in a dark alley off of Berener Street on Sept. 30, 1888. At 1:00 a.m., Mr. Louis Diemschutz was driving a horse cart when he turned into the dark alley to see a figure laying on the ground in his path. As he looked closer, he saw that it was a woman on her back, either dead or just merely drunken. As a few men arrived on the scene from down the court, the light revealed her slashed throat and the large puddle of blood around her. Police arrived to the scene quickly and sealed it off. Dr. William P. Blackwell, a physician in the neighborhood, was first to examine the body, and was later joined by Dr. Baxter-Phillips. They observed that the body was still warm, with a !

The police last saw Catherine at 1:00 A.M., roughly forty-five minutes before her death. She was brought in to the police station after being found passed out in an alley at about 8:00 P.M. The police released her at 1:00 A.M. Witnesses claimed to have seen a man with a woman, who most certainly looked like the victim, standing in Mitre Square at 1:30 A.M. They described the man as about thirty years old, with a fair complexion and a light mustache. He wore a loose jacket and a "reddish-brown" handkerchief with a peaked cloth cap. He had the overall look of a sailor. The police investigated the whole morning under the supervision of Sir Henry Smith, the assistant city police commissioner. They were able to find a blood-smeared knife and blood-smeared clothing, which matched the fabric of the victim's skirt.

utine route when he saw a woman lying on her back.

As with the previous victims, there was no spattering or spewing of blood, but instead just a large puddle of blood that had slowly collected under the body. That afternoon, Doctors Brown and Sequira performed the autopsy on the body, and found that her uterus and one of her kidneys were completely missing. This led to a theory that the murderer was actually just after women's organs to sell them on the black market and make a big profit. Catherine Eddows was an alcoholic in her early forties who made a living from prostitution. According to her friends, she claimed that she had married a man named Thomas Conway, and had three children (1 daughter, 2 sons). There were, however, no traces of their marriage found on registers. The two eventually separated, her daughter, Annie, saying that it was because of her mother's drunkenness and periodic absences, and her sister, Elizabeth Fisher, saying that it was because of Conway's drinking and violence. The two boys went to live wi!

At 3:30 P.M., Dr. Baxter-Phillips proceeded to reassemble the remains with the help of police surgeon Dr. Thomas Beck, and several other assistants. They labored for several hours, assembling the body together," Like a jig-saw puzzle," as one of the assistants put it (Geary, p.54). They also found that there were cuts on her hands, indicating that she had offered some resistance to her killer, and that none of her organs were found missing. Despite that she was in her early twenties, Mary Jane Kelly seemed to be no different from the other victims of the Ripper. She had married at the age of nineteen to a collier named Davies, who died two or three years later in a mine explosion. They had no children together, or at least there aren't any records that they did. Shortly after her husband's death, she

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