Rose Mylett is one of the women named in the Whitechapel Murder file. The Whitechapel Murder file includes some of the women who were thought to have been murdered by Jack the Ripper, while other women on the Whitechapel Murder file were thought to have been murdered by Jack the Ripper, but are now contested as being victims of Jack the Ripper. What Is The Whitechapel Murder File? The Whitechapel Murder File is a file which consists of the murders of eleven women. The file was open from the 3rd of April 1888, when the first victim was attacked, Emma Elizabeth Smith, to the 13th of February 1891, when the last victim was murdered. Rose Mylett On The File Rose Mylett was found dead in the early morning hours of the 20th of December, 1888. She was found in the yard of 184 and 186 Poplar High Street, by PC Robert Goulding. PC Robert Goulding found Rose Mylett dead in the yard, though her body was still warm when he found her at 4.15am, on the morning of the 20th of December 1888. He thought that the body was similar to that of other ripper victims, the way he found her. However, it didn't look as if she had been attacked. What Did Her Autopsy Reveal? The post-mortem report by Dr Mathew Brownfield read as the following: '' Blood was oozing from the nostrils, and there was a slight abrasion on the right side of the face... One the neck there was a mark which had evidently been caused by a cord drawn tightly round the neck, from the spine to the left ear. Such a mark would be made by a four thread cord. There were also impressions of the thumbs and middle and index fingers of some person plainly visible on each side of the neck. There were no injuries to the arms or legs. The brain was gorged with an almost black fluid blood. The stomach was full of meat and potatoes, which had only recently been eaten. Death was due to strangulation. Deceased could not have done it herself. The marks on her neck were probably caused by her trying to pull the cord off. He thought the murderer must have stood at the left rear of the woman, and, having the ends of the cord round his hands, thrown it round her throat, crossed his hands, and thus strangled her. If it had been done in this way, it would account for the mark not going completely round the neck.''[1] By his report, Dr Mathew Brownfield concluded that Rose Mylett had been strangled to death. He ruled out that it was a suicide attempt; she was murdered by someone. However, Dr Brownfield's post-mortem report was contradicted by two other doctors at the time of the event. The two doctors who contradicted Dr Brownfield's analysis of the death was Dr Robert Anderson and Dr Bond. Neither of these men thought that Rose Mylett was murdered, both thought that it must have been an accident. Concluding Thoughts Either Rose Mylett died accidentally, or she died by someone strangling her and was murdered. Could she have been a victim of Jack the Ripper's? Is there anything to conclude that she may have been a victim of Jack the Ripper's? There are two things which could indicate that she may have been a ripper victim. The first is that she was a prostitute that was murdered in the early hours of the morning, like the other ripper victims. Secondly, she died just a few weeks after the last confirmed ripper victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Though, the timing of Mylett's death is probably more coincidental than anything else. If she was murdered, then the modus operandi of her killer would have been different to the modus operandi of that of Jack the Ripper's. Therefore, most likely she wasn't a victim of Jack the Ripper's.
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