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== Martha Tabram ==

Martha Tabram was brutally murdered in the early hours of 7th August 1888.

Her mutilated body was found on the first floor landing of [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=George_Yard_Buildings George Yard Buildings] by [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=John_Saunders_Reeves John Saunders Reeves] as he left for work.

PC Thomas Barrett 226H was summoned by John Reeves, who in turn sent for a doctor. [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Dr_Timothy_Robert_Killeen Dr Timothy Robert Killeen] arrived to investigate the body. 

As there wasn't a public mortuary in Whitechapel the police sent Martha's body to the 'deadhouse' belonging to the workhouse infirmary in Old Montague Street.

== Post-Mortem ==

[http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Dr_Timothy_Robert_Killeen Dr Timothy Robert Killeen] conducted the post-mortem.


The summary of wounds given to the inquest on 9th August 1888 were:

* An effusion of blood between the scalp and the bone
* The brain was pale but healthy
* At least twenty-two stab wounds to the trunk
* The left lung was penetrated in five places
* The right lung was penetrated in two places
* The heart was rather fatty
* The heart was penetrated once
* Blood was present in the pericardium
* The liver was penetrated in five places
* The spleen lung was penetrated in two places
* The stomach was penetrated in six places
* The lower portion of the body was penetrated in one place
* Death was due to haemorrhage and loss of blood


Dr Killen went on to make the following deductions:

* There was no evidence of a struggle
* One of the wounds, he contended, might have been made by a left-handed person, but the rest appeared to have been inflicted by a right-handed person * Two different weapons had been used