The science is intriguing but crucuially, NOT peer reviewed, and while Edwards makes a decent case for Aarom Kosminski being the Ripper, his blinkered view and poorly argued points do him no favours. The houses in the neighbourhood had the blinds drawn, and much sympathy was expressed for the relatives." In 1880, they separated altogether, and Catherine gravitated to the East End of London, where she moved into Cooney's common lodging house at 55, Flower and Dean Street, and here, in 1881, she met a man named John Kelly, who earned his living as a casual labourer at the local markets. On 30th October, 1888, Joseph Barnett moved out, although he and Mary remained on friendly terms, and he would drop by to see her, the last time being at around 7.30 on the evening of Thursday 8th November, albeit he didn't stay long. THE LAST SIGHTING OF HER

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She had, she said, made several visits to France at this time, and had accompanied a gentleman to Paris, but, not liking it there, she had returned to London after just two weeks. Elizabeth Stride was laid to rest in the East London Cemetery, Plaistow, on Saturday, 6th October, 1888, and her interment was given little attention by the press. The police were sent for, and a doctor was summoned, who pronounced life extinct. It was noted that, although, as in the cases of the previous victims, the woman's throat had been cut, the rest of the body had not been mutilated. This led the police to deduce that Diemschutz had interrupted the killer when he turned into Dutfield's Yard.

THE CITY OF LONDON CEMTERY

As police from Scotland Yard completed their work, Acting Sergeant Amos Simpson reportedly made an odd request to take home a blood-splattered shawl—blue and dark brown with a pattern of Michaelmas daisies at either end—found at the crime scene as a gift for his seamstress wife. His superiors granted permission, but unsurprisingly, the present was not well received. It was never established how she spent the rest of that afternoon. She certainly didn't visit her daughter. But she did acquire money somehow, because at 8pm that evening she was arrested for drunkenness on Aldgate High Street by Police Constable Robinson of the City of London Police. ARRESTED FOR BEING DRUNK They summoned the spirit of Elizabeth Stride, and after some delay the spirit came, and, in answer to questions, stated that the murderer was a middle-aged man, whose name she mentioned, and who resided at a given number in Commercial-road or street, Whitechapel, and who belonged to a gang of twelve." THE MURDER OF CATHERINE EDDOWES The cost of a night's lodging in these establishments was fourpence. But, on the night of the 30th of August, she didn't even have this meager amount and was, therefore, denied a night's doss at Wilmott's common lodging house. HER "JOLLY BONNETT" An extraordinary statement bearing upon the Whitechapel tragedies was made to the Cardiff police on Saturday by a respectable looking elderly woman, who stated that she was a spiritualist, and, in company with five other persons, held a séance on Saturday night.

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Ten minutes later, at 1.45 am. Police Constable Alfred Watkins walked his beat into Mitre Square and discovered her horrifically mutilated body lying in the darkness of the Square's South West corner. Most importantly, what we are not told in the book, however, is whether as part of this analysis Dr Louelainen needed to take other samples from the shawl after Edwards was in sole and lone possession of both it and the modern Kosminski's genetic descendant's DNA sample. Moreover, we are not told whether or not it would have been possible at any time for the author to contaminate any of those slides, anyway, with modern Kosminski descendant DNA.Beginning at the end of the 2014 news story that underpins this book, Dr Louelainen - Russell's Edwards's scientific associate - made a scientific error in recording and analyzing DNA analysis results. The scarf that is the star of this book cannot in fact be linked by DNA to the Riper victim Catherine Eddowes.