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Seventh Amendment (with events prior to the murder added)
c2.00 (PM) - Eddowes and John Kelly part company in Houndsditch. She promises to be back by 4.00.
? - At some point an unnamed woman tells Kelly that she has seen Eddowes taken by the two Constable’s in Houndsditch but he couldn’t say what time it was when she told him this news.
c7.30-8.00 - Kelly took a single bed at the lodging house in Flower and Dean Street. The deputy, Frederick William Wilkinson, claimed that Kelly told him that Eddowes had been locked up but she wasn’t arrested until 8.30.
c8.30 - PC Lewis Robinson finds Catherine Eddowes lying drunk on the pavement outside number 29 High Street, Aldgate, surrounded by a crowd of people. He takes her to Bishopsgate Police Station with the aid of another Constable.
c8.45 - They arrive at Bishopsgate seen by Sergeant James Byfield.
c9.45 - PC George Henry Hutt took charge of the station’s prisoners.
c12.55 (AM) - Sergeant Byfield instructs Hutt to see if any prisoners are fit for release. He found Eddowes to be sober.
c1.00 - Eddowes is released.
c1.30 - PC Edward Watkins (881City) enters from Mitre Street and walks around Mitre Square and leaves by the same way. He sees nothing unusual.
C1.30-1.35 - Joseph Lawende, Joseph Hyam Levy and Harry Harris see a woman, believed to have been Eddowes, talking to a man in Duke Street near to Church Passage.
c1.40 - PC James Harvey (964City) walks to the bottom of Church Passage and looks into Mitre Square. He sees nothing unusual.
c1.44 - PC Watkins enters Mitre Square from Mitre Street and finds the body in the South-West corner.
c1.45 - Watkins goes over to the warehouse of Kearley and Tonge and asks for assistant from George James Morris
who returns with him to view the body.
c1.47 - Watkins remains with the body and sends Morris for assistance. Morris, blowing his whistle, runs down Mitre Street into Aldgate.
c1.48 - PC Harvey hears the whistle and sees Morris running. He goes over to him and Morris tells him about the body. Morris then sees PC Frederick Holland (814City) and calls him over.
c1.49 - The three men go to Mitre Square. Holland is sent to fetch Dr George William Sequiera (34, Jewry Street) which is around 3 minutes walk away.
c1.55 - At Bishopsgate Station Inspector Edward Collard is informed of the body. He telegraphs headquarters then he sends a PC to fetch City Police Surgeon, Frederick Gordon Brown (17, Finsbury Circus, around 1.5 miles away so he must have used a cab)
c1.55 - PC Holland returns with Dr Sequiera who pronounces Catherine Eddowes dead.
c1.58 - DC Halse, DC Edward Marriott and DS Robert Outram are on duty near to St Botolph’s Church in Aldgate. They hear a police whistle and head toward Mitre Square.
c2.00 - Dc Halse, DC Marriott and DS Outram arrive in Mitre Square.
c2.02/2.03 - Inspector Collard arrives in Mitre Square and organises a search. Dr Sequiera is informed the Dr Brown has been sent for so he waits for his arrival before proceeding.
c2.03 - Dr Brown is told about the body.
c2.05 - DC Halse goes on a search into Wentworth Street via Middlesex Street.
c2.15 - DC Halse stops 2 men in Wentworth Street but they give a satisfactory account and he allows them to go.
c2.18 - Dr. Brown arrives in Mitre Square.
c2.20 - The examination of the body begins.
c2.20 - D/Superintendent Alfred Lawrence Foster arrives in Mitre Square.
c2.20 - DC Halse, who is in Goulston Street, heads back to Mitre Square.
c2.20 - PC Alfred Long (254A) passes along Goulston Street and sees nothing.
c2.20 - PC Pearse (992City) hears about the murder.
c2.20 -Dr Brown requests that Dr Phillips is sent for to look at the injuries.
c2.35 - DC Halse gets back to Mitre Square.
c2.35 - Sergeant Herbert Jones (92) finds three buttons, a thimble and a mustard tin containing two pawn tickets next to the body.
c2.45 - Inspector McWilliam arrives at the Detective Office and gets an update on events from Inspector George Izzard. He sends Izzard and Sergeants Phelps and Dudman to Mitre Square to maintain order.
c2.49 - Inspector McWilliam wires Scotland Yard about the murder in Mitre Square.
c2.55 - PC Long discovers the apron piece and the chalked message in Goulston Street. He searches the staircases and the surrounding area.
c2.55 - Sergeant Phelps, Inspector Izzard and Sergeant Dudman arrive in Mitre Square.
c2.59 - Inspector McWilliam and DS Frederick William Downes arrive at Bishopsgate Station.
c3.00 - The body is placed on the ambulance to be taken to Golden Lane Mortuary.
c3.00 - PC Long calls over PC William Bettles (190H) and leaves him in charge of his beat before heading to Commercial Street Station. He leaves the apron piece at the scene.
c3.00 - Major Smith arrives in Mitre Square from Cloak Lane Station.
c3.09 - Inspector McWilliam arrives in Mitre Square.
c3.09 - The body is removed to the mortuary.
c3.10 - DC Halse, Inspector Collard, Inspector McWilliam, Major Smith and the two doctors go to the mortuary.
c3.10 - PC Long arrives at Commercial Street Station and reports his findings the Inspector in charge.
c3.30 - PC Long and the Inspector arrive in Goulston Street. They both examine the area.
c3.30-3.40 - Dr’s Brown and Sequiera arrive at the mortuary (it’s possible that they arrived before the ambulance with the body did.) (it’s also possible that they had to await the arrival of Mortuary Keeper John Davis to arrive).
c3.40 - PC Long and the Inspector head for Leman Street Station with the apron piece.
c3.40 - The body arrives at the mortuary is stripped by mortuary keeper Davis and a piece of the victims ear falls from her clothing.
c3.45 - DC Halse notices a piece of her apron is missing.
c3.50 - PC Long and the Inspector arrive at Leman Street Station with the apron piece.
c4.00 - Inspector Collard, DC Halse and Major Smith return to Mitre Square where they learn about the apron piece and the chalked message.
c4.05 - DC Halse went to Goulston Street and instructed that the message should be photographed. He remained there.
c4.10 - Superintendent Thomas Arnold sends an Inspector to Goulston Street with a sponge awaiting orders to rub out the message.
c4.55 - Long hands the apron piece to Dr Phillips who heads for the mortuary.
c5.00 - PC Long returns to Goulston Street.
c5.05 - DC Halse, Major Smith and Detective Baxter Hunt went to Leman Street Police Station where they learn that the apron piece has been given to Doctor Phillips.
c5.10 - Commissioner Charles Warren arrives at Goulston Street.
c5.20 - Dr Brown (at least) was still at the mortuary.
c5.25 - Dr Phillips arrives at the mortuary with the apron piece.
c5.30 - DC Hunt arrives at Goulston Street.
c5.30 - Over DC Halse’s objections the message is rubbed out. (Major Smith claimed that Warren personally removed it)
5.42 - Sunrise.
2.30 (pm) - The Post Mortem is conducted by Dr Brown, Dr Sequiera, Dr William Sedgwick Saunders, Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst, City of London and attended by Dr. Phillips.
Thursday October 4th, Eddowes inquest begins.
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Question/Point - Eddowes was arrested at 8.30. Kelly took a single bed at Flower and Dean Street between 7.30 and 8.00 (according to Wilkinson the lodging house deputy) Wilkinson also said that, when he took the room, Kelly had told him that Eddowes had been locked up. He said that he’d been told this by an unnamed woman who had seen Eddowes in the company of two policeman. We don’t know if the woman saw her when she was arrested or at some point as she was being walked to the station and we don’t know where she was when she informed Kelly. But if we allow just 15-30 minutes from her seeing Eddowes to her seeing and telling Kelly then we have John Kelly finding out about her arrest at 8.45 - 9.00. Yet Wilkinson said that he’d known at 7.30 - 8.00.
c2.00 (PM) - Eddowes and John Kelly part company in Houndsditch. She promises to be back by 4.00.
? - At some point an unnamed woman tells Kelly that she has seen Eddowes taken by the two Constable’s in Houndsditch but he couldn’t say what time it was when she told him this news.
c7.30-8.00 - Kelly took a single bed at the lodging house in Flower and Dean Street. The deputy, Frederick William Wilkinson, claimed that Kelly told him that Eddowes had been locked up but she wasn’t arrested until 8.30.
c8.30 - PC Lewis Robinson finds Catherine Eddowes lying drunk on the pavement outside number 29 High Street, Aldgate, surrounded by a crowd of people. He takes her to Bishopsgate Police Station with the aid of another Constable.
c8.45 - They arrive at Bishopsgate seen by Sergeant James Byfield.
c9.45 - PC George Henry Hutt took charge of the station’s prisoners.
c12.55 (AM) - Sergeant Byfield instructs Hutt to see if any prisoners are fit for release. He found Eddowes to be sober.
c1.00 - Eddowes is released.
c1.30 - PC Edward Watkins (881City) enters from Mitre Street and walks around Mitre Square and leaves by the same way. He sees nothing unusual.
C1.30-1.35 - Joseph Lawende, Joseph Hyam Levy and Harry Harris see a woman, believed to have been Eddowes, talking to a man in Duke Street near to Church Passage.
c1.40 - PC James Harvey (964City) walks to the bottom of Church Passage and looks into Mitre Square. He sees nothing unusual.
c1.44 - PC Watkins enters Mitre Square from Mitre Street and finds the body in the South-West corner.
c1.45 - Watkins goes over to the warehouse of Kearley and Tonge and asks for assistant from George James Morris
who returns with him to view the body.
c1.47 - Watkins remains with the body and sends Morris for assistance. Morris, blowing his whistle, runs down Mitre Street into Aldgate.
c1.48 - PC Harvey hears the whistle and sees Morris running. He goes over to him and Morris tells him about the body. Morris then sees PC Frederick Holland (814City) and calls him over.
c1.49 - The three men go to Mitre Square. Holland is sent to fetch Dr George William Sequiera (34, Jewry Street) which is around 3 minutes walk away.
c1.55 - At Bishopsgate Station Inspector Edward Collard is informed of the body. He telegraphs headquarters then he sends a PC to fetch City Police Surgeon, Frederick Gordon Brown (17, Finsbury Circus, around 1.5 miles away so he must have used a cab)
c1.55 - PC Holland returns with Dr Sequiera who pronounces Catherine Eddowes dead.
c1.58 - DC Halse, DC Edward Marriott and DS Robert Outram are on duty near to St Botolph’s Church in Aldgate. They hear a police whistle and head toward Mitre Square.
c2.00 - Dc Halse, DC Marriott and DS Outram arrive in Mitre Square.
c2.02/2.03 - Inspector Collard arrives in Mitre Square and organises a search. Dr Sequiera is informed the Dr Brown has been sent for so he waits for his arrival before proceeding.
c2.03 - Dr Brown is told about the body.
c2.05 - DC Halse goes on a search into Wentworth Street via Middlesex Street.
c2.15 - DC Halse stops 2 men in Wentworth Street but they give a satisfactory account and he allows them to go.
c2.18 - Dr. Brown arrives in Mitre Square.
c2.20 - The examination of the body begins.
c2.20 - D/Superintendent Alfred Lawrence Foster arrives in Mitre Square.
c2.20 - DC Halse, who is in Goulston Street, heads back to Mitre Square.
c2.20 - PC Alfred Long (254A) passes along Goulston Street and sees nothing.
c2.20 - PC Pearse (992City) hears about the murder.
c2.20 -Dr Brown requests that Dr Phillips is sent for to look at the injuries.
c2.35 - DC Halse gets back to Mitre Square.
c2.35 - Sergeant Herbert Jones (92) finds three buttons, a thimble and a mustard tin containing two pawn tickets next to the body.
c2.45 - Inspector McWilliam arrives at the Detective Office and gets an update on events from Inspector George Izzard. He sends Izzard and Sergeants Phelps and Dudman to Mitre Square to maintain order.
c2.49 - Inspector McWilliam wires Scotland Yard about the murder in Mitre Square.
c2.55 - PC Long discovers the apron piece and the chalked message in Goulston Street. He searches the staircases and the surrounding area.
c2.55 - Sergeant Phelps, Inspector Izzard and Sergeant Dudman arrive in Mitre Square.
c2.59 - Inspector McWilliam and DS Frederick William Downes arrive at Bishopsgate Station.
c3.00 - The body is placed on the ambulance to be taken to Golden Lane Mortuary.
c3.00 - PC Long calls over PC William Bettles (190H) and leaves him in charge of his beat before heading to Commercial Street Station. He leaves the apron piece at the scene.
c3.00 - Major Smith arrives in Mitre Square from Cloak Lane Station.
c3.09 - Inspector McWilliam arrives in Mitre Square.
c3.09 - The body is removed to the mortuary.
c3.10 - DC Halse, Inspector Collard, Inspector McWilliam, Major Smith and the two doctors go to the mortuary.
c3.10 - PC Long arrives at Commercial Street Station and reports his findings the Inspector in charge.
c3.30 - PC Long and the Inspector arrive in Goulston Street. They both examine the area.
c3.30-3.40 - Dr’s Brown and Sequiera arrive at the mortuary (it’s possible that they arrived before the ambulance with the body did.) (it’s also possible that they had to await the arrival of Mortuary Keeper John Davis to arrive).
c3.40 - PC Long and the Inspector head for Leman Street Station with the apron piece.
c3.40 - The body arrives at the mortuary is stripped by mortuary keeper Davis and a piece of the victims ear falls from her clothing.
c3.45 - DC Halse notices a piece of her apron is missing.
c3.50 - PC Long and the Inspector arrive at Leman Street Station with the apron piece.
c4.00 - Inspector Collard, DC Halse and Major Smith return to Mitre Square where they learn about the apron piece and the chalked message.
c4.05 - DC Halse went to Goulston Street and instructed that the message should be photographed. He remained there.
c4.10 - Superintendent Thomas Arnold sends an Inspector to Goulston Street with a sponge awaiting orders to rub out the message.
c4.55 - Long hands the apron piece to Dr Phillips who heads for the mortuary.
c5.00 - PC Long returns to Goulston Street.
c5.05 - DC Halse, Major Smith and Detective Baxter Hunt went to Leman Street Police Station where they learn that the apron piece has been given to Doctor Phillips.
c5.10 - Commissioner Charles Warren arrives at Goulston Street.
c5.20 - Dr Brown (at least) was still at the mortuary.
c5.25 - Dr Phillips arrives at the mortuary with the apron piece.
c5.30 - DC Hunt arrives at Goulston Street.
c5.30 - Over DC Halse’s objections the message is rubbed out. (Major Smith claimed that Warren personally removed it)
5.42 - Sunrise.
2.30 (pm) - The Post Mortem is conducted by Dr Brown, Dr Sequiera, Dr William Sedgwick Saunders, Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst, City of London and attended by Dr. Phillips.
Thursday October 4th, Eddowes inquest begins.
………..
Question/Point - Eddowes was arrested at 8.30. Kelly took a single bed at Flower and Dean Street between 7.30 and 8.00 (according to Wilkinson the lodging house deputy) Wilkinson also said that, when he took the room, Kelly had told him that Eddowes had been locked up. He said that he’d been told this by an unnamed woman who had seen Eddowes in the company of two policeman. We don’t know if the woman saw her when she was arrested or at some point as she was being walked to the station and we don’t know where she was when she informed Kelly. But if we allow just 15-30 minutes from her seeing Eddowes to her seeing and telling Kelly then we have John Kelly finding out about her arrest at 8.45 - 9.00. Yet Wilkinson said that he’d known at 7.30 - 8.00.
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