Unseen Horrors: Jack the Ripper's Hidden Crime

been a little more curious and peered over the fence, which was about 5ft 6 inches high, would have almost certainly seen Jack the Ripper attacking one of his victims. Elizabeth Long, who was on her way to Spitalfields market where she worked as a cart minder, passed 29 Hanbury Street as the brewer’s clock struck 5.30, and noticed a man and woman talking loudly. She overheard the man say, 'Will you', and the woman reply, 'Yes'. At the mortuary, Mrs. Long, when viewing the body of Annie Chapman was certain it was the same woman she had seen. Mrs. Long was unable to give a good description of the man because she hardly saw his face, except to say that he was dark and wore a brown deerstalker hat, had a shabby genteel appearance and looked like a foreigner. She could not say what age he was, but looked to be over 40 and appeared to be a little taller than the woman, Chapman was 5ft tall. If Albert Cadosch's and Elizabeth Long's version of events are correct it shows that Chapman was almost certainly killed around 5.15-5.30 and not earlier as Bagster Phillips claimed. Dr. Phillips admitted that he may have miscalculated the time of death, due to the loss of blood from the body and the coldness of the morning, combining this with the evidence of the witnesses. One can reasonably conclude that the body was not in the yard when John Richardson trimmed his boot

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