Decomposition had commenced in the skin. Dark brown spots were on the anterior surface of the left chin. There was a deformity in the bones of the right leg, which was not straight, but bowed forwards. There was no recent external injury save to the neck. The body being washed more thoroughly, I could see some healing sores. The lobe of the left ear was torn as if from the removal or wearing through of an earring, but it was thoroughly healed. On removing the scalp there was no sign of bruising or extravasation of blood.
The heart was small, the left ventricle firmly contracted, and the right slightly so. There was no clot in the pulmonary artery, but the right ventricle was full of dark clot. The left was firmly contracted as to be absolutely empty. The stomach was large and the mucous membrane only congested.
It contained partly digested food, apparently consisting of cheese, potato, and farinaceous powder [flour or milled grain]. All the teeth on the lower left jaw were absent. Blackwell thought that Stride might have been pulled backwards on to the ground by her neckerchief before her throat was cut.
The following day conflicting testimony as to Stride's identity was heard. Over the course of the inquest, other witnesses identified the dead woman as Stride, including the clerk of the Swedish Church in Prince's Square, Sven Ollsen. Coroner Baxter believed that Stride had been attacked with a swift, sudden action. Baxter, however, thought the absence of a shout for assistance and the lack of obvious marks of a struggle indicated that she lay down willingly. In his book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution , Stephen Knight linked the prominent physician Sir William Gull to Stride on the basis that both were reported to carry grapes, which another Ripper author, Martin Fido , dismissed as a "wild allegation".
He had an extensive criminal record, which included assault on a prostitute and conviction for theft. In , he was convicted of conspiracy to defraud and served two years' imprisonment. After his release, he was arrested in possession of a revolver and charged with demanding money with menace, a crime for which he was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.
On 1 October, Michael Kidney walked drunk into Leman Street police station and decried police incompetence. If he were the policeman on duty in Berner Street that night, he said, he would have shot himself.
The sparse funeral was provided at the expense of the parish by the undertaker, Mr Hawkes. She identified the body as that of her sister, Catherine Eddowes, a single woman, who had lived with a man named John Kelly for some years.
She had previously lived with a man named Conway, an army pensioner, and had several children by him. They arrived together from Kent last week and spent the night at the Shoe-lane casual ward and on Friday they arranged that the deceased should go to the Mile-end Workhouse.
Of course, today, with the passage of years, it is now impossible for us to say with certainty whether or not Catherine Eddowes was a prostitute, but it is important that the testimony of those who knew her should be heard and remembered. However, there also appears to have been a general change in attitude to the murders as well, which can be seen in this article , which appeared in The Pall Mall Gazette in early October Seeing people moving about some distance down the street I ran, followed by another constable.
I at once sent the other constable for the nearest doctor. I sent a young man to the station to inform the inspector. There were about thirty people in the yard when I got there.
No one was touching the body. Eliza Gold was the first witness. According to testimony by Charles Preston , who lived at the same lodging house, she came to London in the service of a "foreign gentleman.
Michael Kidney , with whom she lived on and off prior to her death, says she told him that she worked for a family in Hyde Park and that she "came to see the country. July 10, -- she is registered as an unmarried woman at the Swedish Church in Prince's Square, St.
George in the East. On March 7, she marries John Stride at the parish church, St. Giles in the Fields. The Service is conducted by Rev. Will Powell and witnessed by Daniel H. Wyatt and N. Stride gives her address as 67 Gower Street. They move themselves and the business to Poplar High Street and remain there until the business is taken over by John Dale in In the Princess Alice , a saloon steam ship collides with the steamer Bywell Castle in the Thames. There is a loss of lives. Liz will claim that her husband and children were killed in this disaster and that her palate was injured by being kicked in the mouth while climbing the mast to escape.
No corroborative evidence exists for this statement and we know that her husband actually died in The post mortem report on her specifically states that there was no damage to either her hard or soft palate. This story may have been told by her to elicit sympathy when asking for financial aid from the Swedish Church. On December 28, through January 4, she is treated at the Whitechapel Infirmary for bronchitis.
From the Infirmary she moves directly into the Whitechapel Workhouse. From onwards she lodges on and off at the common lodging house at 32 Flower and Dean Street. As her husband is still alive at this time it is reasonable to assume that the marriage has irrevocably fallen apart. On October 24, , John Stride dies of heart disease. In she is living with Michael Kidney.
They live together for three years although she often leaves him for periods of time to go off on the town. Michael Kidney is a waterside laborer. He is born in and is 7 years younger than Liz. At the time of the murder Kidney is living at 33 Dorset Street.
Their relationship is best described as stormy. He says that she was frequently absent when she was drinking and he even tried, unsuccessfully, to padlock her in see list of possession at time of death. On May 20 and again on the 23rd of She receives alms from the Swedish Church.
Sven Olsson, Clerk of the Church remembers her as "very poor. In April of she charges Kidney with assault but then fails to appear at Thames Magistrate Court. In July of Kidney is sent down for three days charges with being drunk and disorderly and using obscene language.
She was released on bail the following day. During the 20 months prior to her death she appeared 8 times before the Magistrate on similar charges. On Tuesday, September 25, , Michael Kidney sees her for the last time. He expects her to be home when he arrives from work but she is not. Kidney is unconcerned as she has done this often. I think she liked me better than any other man. Wednesday, September 26 finds her at the lodging house at 32 Flower and Dean Street. She had not been there in the last three months.
She tells Catherine Lane that she had words with the man she was living with. Her being at the lodging house is confirmed by none other than Dr. Thomas Barnardo, a doctor who had taken to street preaching and then opened a famous home for destitute boys. Barnardo had visited the lodging house to get opinions on his scheme 'by which children at all events could be saved at least from the contamination of the common lodging houses and the street.
One woman, probably drunk cried bitterly "We're all up to no good, no one cares what becomes of us! Perhaps some of us will be killed next! Thursday-Friday, September Liz continues to lodge at 32 Flower and Dean Street.
According to Elizabeth Tanner , the lodging house deputy, she arrived at the house after a quarrel with Kidney. Kidney will deny this. Saturday-Sunday, September , The weather this evening is showery and windy. Elizabeth spends the afternoon cleaning two rooms at the lodging house. For her services she is paid 6d by Elizabeth Tanner.
They drank together and then walked back to the lodging house. She gives Lane a large piece of green velvet and asks her to hold it for her until she returns.
She ask Preston to borrow his clothes brush but he has mislaid it. She then leaves passing by Thomas Bates , watchman at the lodging house who says she looked quite cheerful. Lane will later state that "I know the deceased had 6d when she left, she showed it to me, stating that the deputy had given it to her. As they went in Stride was leaving with a short man with a dark mustache and sandy eyelashes. The man was wearing a billycock hat, mourning suit and coat.
Best says "They had been served in the public house and went out when me and my friends came in. It was raining very fast and they did not appear willing to go out. He was hugging and kissing her, and as he seemed a respectably dressed man, we were rather astonished at the way he was going on at the woman.
Elizabeth Stride was found dead from a cut throat just over ten minutes later, laying inside the gateway where Schwartz had seen her. Instead, it was suggested that she was merely the unfortunate victim of a violent customer or local gang — perhaps the man that Schwartz had seen assaulting her. It is also thought that the Ripper must have escaped with Diemschutz left the crime scene to raise the alarm. One woman, Mary Malcolm, claimed that Elizabeth was her sister, Elizabeth Watts, but this turned out to be false.
It is thought that Malcolm invented the story simply to get a view of the body in the mortuary. He claimed that, prior to her death, he had sold a bunch of grapes to a man who was accompanied by Stride.
Unfortunately, Packer frequently changed his story and the timings under questioning, causing the police to regard him as an unreliable witness. Did Schwartz see the real Ripper in action?
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