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Annie Chapman left 35, Dorset Street at around 1.50am in order to go and "earn" her lodging money.
At 4.45am on 8th September, 1888, a man named John Richardson entered 29 Hanbury Street. He checked his premises were secure and reported not seeing anything unusual at the time.
At approximately 5.15am Elizabeth Long was walking along Hanbury Street towards Spitalfields Market, when she passed a man and a woman standing on the pavement, close against the shutters in front of number 29. Elizabeth Long recognised Annie Chapman, but didn't recognise the male with her.
Long described the male as:
* He was dark
* He was wearing a brown low-crowned felt hat
* I think he had on a dark coat
* He was over forty years of age
* He appeared taller than the deceased
* He was "shabby-genteel"
* He looked like a foreigner