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I have just been reading a newsw report from "The Hull Daily Mail" dated October 4th 1888. In the article it mentions a Detective Abbott, being accompanied by John Kelly, and a little girl, to visit Mrs Frost.
It states that Mrs Frost is Kate Conway's sister, and she must accompany Abbott to the Golden-lane Mortuary.
Any info on this police officer?
He at once informed them that, to his knowledge, a sister of "Kate’s" was living at 6, Thrawl-street, a thoroughfare adjacent to Flower and Dean-street. Inquiries were made early on Wednesday morning established the accuracy of this statement, for Kelly, accompanied by a detective and a little girl went straight to the house, and no difficulty was experienced in finding the sister of the deceased. Mrs Frost to use the name which she first gave to the police, lives on the top floor of the house, and the girl was sent upstairs to see her, found the old lady in bed, from which at first she refused to rise. The lass returned to the detective and Kelly with this message, but was requested by the former again to go upstairs, and this time to tell Mrs Frost that her sister was dead, and that it was necessary she should see the police. Thus appealed to, the woman rose, dressed and was soon ready to accompany Detective Abbott on the mission of identification at Golden-lane. Mrs Frost was accompanied by her son, George Gold, and also a young married woman named Lizzie Griffiths. The mortuary was reached at one o’clock, and the sister on beholding the body of her mutilated relative had no difficulty recognising the features. The poor woman, as might be naturally expected, gave way to a paroxysm of grief after gazing on the dreadful sight, and had to be led from the mortuary. Her son George, who is a woodchopper in Thrawl-street, made the question of identity still more certain at once declaring the body to be that of aunt Kate.
It states that Mrs Frost is Kate Conway's sister, and she must accompany Abbott to the Golden-lane Mortuary.
Any info on this police officer?
He at once informed them that, to his knowledge, a sister of "Kate’s" was living at 6, Thrawl-street, a thoroughfare adjacent to Flower and Dean-street. Inquiries were made early on Wednesday morning established the accuracy of this statement, for Kelly, accompanied by a detective and a little girl went straight to the house, and no difficulty was experienced in finding the sister of the deceased. Mrs Frost to use the name which she first gave to the police, lives on the top floor of the house, and the girl was sent upstairs to see her, found the old lady in bed, from which at first she refused to rise. The lass returned to the detective and Kelly with this message, but was requested by the former again to go upstairs, and this time to tell Mrs Frost that her sister was dead, and that it was necessary she should see the police. Thus appealed to, the woman rose, dressed and was soon ready to accompany Detective Abbott on the mission of identification at Golden-lane. Mrs Frost was accompanied by her son, George Gold, and also a young married woman named Lizzie Griffiths. The mortuary was reached at one o’clock, and the sister on beholding the body of her mutilated relative had no difficulty recognising the features. The poor woman, as might be naturally expected, gave way to a paroxysm of grief after gazing on the dreadful sight, and had to be led from the mortuary. Her son George, who is a woodchopper in Thrawl-street, made the question of identity still more certain at once declaring the body to be that of aunt Kate.
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