While it is true the Star reporter left the court half-way through Prater giving evidence. What the Star published likely reflects the mood of the court at the point when he left.
THE MURDERER DESCRIBED.
Mary Ann Cox, a wretched looking specimen of East-end womanhood, said: I live at No. 5 room, Miller's-court. I am a widow, and having been unfortunate lately, I have had to get my living on the streets. I have known the deceased between eight and nine months. On Thursday night at a quarter to twelve I saw her very much intoxicated in Dorset-street. There was with her a short, stout man, shabbily dressed, who went with her up the court.
It's the title to the piece, not so much her testimony, we already know that. The title shows, to me at least, the mood in the court room was that Cox had seen the murderer.
And this was before Lewis gave her testimony. I think it suggests they all believed at that point, Kelly was already dead.
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