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Sunday 15 November 2015

Mary Kelly. Now there’s a coincidence.




·  Kate Eddowes called herself Mary Ann Kelly on release from jail. She was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct on the night of her murder.
·  Elizabeth Jackson was murdered and dismembered June 1889.
·  Elizabeth Jackson’s drawers bore the name LE. Fisher.
·  Kate Eddowes’s sister was called Elizabeth Fisher.
·  The newspapers reported the murder victim’s, Mary Kelly, name as Fisher. “With regard to the drawers bearing the name ‘L E. Fisher’ on the band, and which the man Faircloth had stated had been bought at a lodging-house at Ipswich, it had been found that they belonged originally to a domestic servant at Kirkley, near Lowestoft, and had been sold as old rags by her mother while staying near her daughter in November last.” The Times, 26 July, 1889. Last November 188 was the month and year of Mary Kelly’s murder.
·  Elizabeth Jackson would walk Battersea Park to pick up her clients.
·  Mary Kelly would visit Lambeth to visit a friend.
·  Mary Kelly: approximately twenty five 5ft 7 in. tall with golden hair. Elizabeth Jackson: twenty five, and approximately 5ft 5 in. tall with bright sandy coloured hair. The two women had similar physical characteristics.
·  Eddowes partner was called John Kelly
·  Eddowes claimed to live in a shed in Dorset Street. Millers Court is a small room off Dorset Street.
·  13 Millers Court was host to not one murder’ Years later, in the room directly above the room where Mary Kelly lodged, 1898 26 November, Kate Marshall murdered her sister, Elizabeth Roberts.

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