Catherine Eddowes was the forth woman murdered by Jack the Ripper, on the early hours of the morning of the 30th of September, 1888. She was murdered on the night we now call 'The Double Event.'
The Double Event was when Jack the Ripper murdered two women. The first woman that he murdered that night was Elizabeth Stride, the second woman that he murdered was Catherine Eddowes.
The last hours of Catherine Eddowes life were very colourful. On the final night when Catherine Eddowes was alive, she wasarrested for being drunken and disorderly .
At 8pm on the 29th of September, Catherine Eddowes was found lying drunk on Aldgate High Street, by police constable John Robinson. Robinson at this point took her to the local police station, at Bishopsgate. Robinson detained her for her own good, until she sobered up.
At 1am the following morning, on the 30th of September, Catherine Eddowes had sobered up. And was ready to be released from jail.
While Eddowes was leaving the police station that morning, instead of turning right to take the shortest route to her home, she took a left turn. The last time the Catherine Eddowes was seen alive was at 1.35am, by a witness called Joseph Lawende, and two other men called, Harry Harris and Joseph Levy. The three men were just leaving a club inDuke Street , when they saw Eddowes. She was seen by the men talking to a man at the entrance to Church Passage. The passage led from Duke Street, into Mitre Square. It was in Mitre Square that Catherine Eddowes dead body would later be found, just minutes afterwords. Between 1.35am and 1.45am. It seems more likely that she was murdered sometime between 1.40am and 1.45am, if she was seen by these three men at 1.35am. What is strange is that when PC Edward Watkins arrived at Mitre Square, on his nightly patrol on that night, did not see Catherine Eddowes body there. Some have speculated that with Watkins patrolling the square frequently, and with a heavy police presence in the area, that there was a police cover-up over the identity over Jack the Ripper. Others say that it was too dark for Watkins to see the body the first time around. If so, how did he see it the second time? It's up to you to examine the historical evidence, and make up your own mind about the events of Mitre Square that night.
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