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Thumbing through Paul Begg’s ‘Jack the Ripper the Uncensored facts’ I read that MJK was (supposedly) seen on the morning after her murder had taken place by at least two people, Maurice Lewis and friend, and Caroline Maxwell.
Caroline Maxwell described how at 8.30 am MJK had told her ‘Oh I do feel bad, I have the horrors of drink upon me.’
Caroline Maxwell suggests she have half a pint in the ‘Ringers’. MJK replied she had and had brought it all up again, nodding towards some vomit on the pavement.
Part of the post mortom by Dr Bond reads, Rigor Mortis had set in but increased during the process of examination. From this it is difficult to say with any certainty the exact time that had elapsed since death as the period varies from six to twelve hours before rigidity sets in. The body was comparitively cold at two o’clock and the remains of a recent meal were found in the stomach and scattered about over the intestines.
It was therefore pretty certain that the woman must have been dead about twelve hours and the partly digested food would indicate that death took place about three or four hours after food was taken, so one or two o’clock in the morning would be the probable time of the murder.’
If the witness accounts were accurate and MJK had been sick, surely her stomach would be empty, that is taking into account that the Dr has his time of death right, or maybe it wasn’t the body of MJK?
Caroline Maxwell described how at 8.30 am MJK had told her ‘Oh I do feel bad, I have the horrors of drink upon me.’
Caroline Maxwell suggests she have half a pint in the ‘Ringers’. MJK replied she had and had brought it all up again, nodding towards some vomit on the pavement.
Part of the post mortom by Dr Bond reads, Rigor Mortis had set in but increased during the process of examination. From this it is difficult to say with any certainty the exact time that had elapsed since death as the period varies from six to twelve hours before rigidity sets in. The body was comparitively cold at two o’clock and the remains of a recent meal were found in the stomach and scattered about over the intestines.
It was therefore pretty certain that the woman must have been dead about twelve hours and the partly digested food would indicate that death took place about three or four hours after food was taken, so one or two o’clock in the morning would be the probable time of the murder.’
If the witness accounts were accurate and MJK had been sick, surely her stomach would be empty, that is taking into account that the Dr has his time of death right, or maybe it wasn’t the body of MJK?
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