Double Trouble
The next time the Ripper struck was on Sunday 30th September that turned into a double event.
The first was at just before 1 am. A body was discovered in a narrow court Dutfield's Yard, in Berners Street
That runs down from Commercial Road to the rail viaduct of the London, Tilbury & Southend line.
Louis Diemschutz pulled his pony and trap into the courtyard. As he did the pony shied to the left and he could not straighten it. Diemschutz took a look into the dark court and saw some blood.
Poking it with his whip he still could not make out what it was. He tried to light a match but
with the wind blowing it was instantly blown out though in the spurt of light he saw a woman’s body.
He went to the working man’s club next door for a candle that he came back with, plus a couple of men.
Although too late to save the life of Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Stride, he must have disturbed the Ripper,
who must have been waiting in the shadow to make good his escape. Through Whitechapel and across to the city.
The other murder that night was in Mitre Square and unlike the other murders this one
was committed inside the City of London and came under the city Police and not the Metropolitan
Police like the others. This victim was known as Catharine Eddowes who had been in city police custody at Bishopsgate for being drunk. She had just been released shortly before her death and had used the name of Kate Kelly. It is said that the Ripper made his exit from the square by the narrow Mitre Passage. A piece of the apron cut away from Catharine Eddowes was later found
abandoned at Goulston Street, Whitechapel. Above where the apron had been found was written on the wall in chalk the words; ‘The Juwes are not the men that will be blamed for nothing’.
The dark lonely corner of the square where Catharine Eddowes met her fate.
The Ripper Murders
Double Trouble
The next time the Ripper struck was on Sunday 30th September that turned into a double event.
The first was at just before 1 am. A body was discovered in a narrow court Dutfield's Yard, in Berners Street
That runs down from Commercial Road to the rail viaduct of the London, Tilbury & Southend line.
Louis Diemschutz pulled his pony and trap into the courtyard. As he did the pony shied to the left and he could not straighten it. Diemschutz took a look into the dark court and saw some blood.
Poking it with his whip he still could not make out what it was. He tried to light a match but
with the wind blowing it was instantly blown out though in the spurt of light he saw a woman’s body.
He went to the working man’s club next door for a candle that he came back with, plus a couple of men.
Although too late to save the life of Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Stride, he must have disturbed the Ripper,
who must have been waiting in the shadow to make good his escape. Through Whitechapel and across to the city.
The other murder that night was in Mitre Square and unlike the other murders this one
was committed inside the City of London and came under the city Police and not the Metropolitan
Police like the others. This victim was known as Catharine Eddowes who had been in city police custody at Bishopsgate for being drunk. She had just been released shortly before her death and had used the name of Kate Kelly. It is said that the Ripper made his exit from the square by the narrow Mitre Passage. A piece of the apron cut away from Catharine Eddowes was later found
abandoned at Goulston Street, Whitechapel. Above where the apron had been found was written on the wall in chalk the words;
