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A few days later Coroner Wynne Baxter called Dr Phillips back to the inquest so that "all the evidence the doctor had obtained from his post-mortem should be on the records of the Court for various reasons which he need not then enumerate, however painful it might be".
Dr Phillips detailed the following:
* The mutilation of the body was of such a character as could only have been effected by a practised hand * It appears that the abdomen had been entirely laid open; * The intestines, severed from their mesenteric attachments, had been lifted out of the body, and placed on the shoulder of the corpse; * From the pelvis the uterus and its appendages, with the upper portion of the vagina and the posterior two-thirds of the bladder, had been entirely removed. No trace of these parts could be found, and the incisions were cleanly cut, avoiding the rectum, and dividing the vagina low enough to avoid injury to the cervix uteri. Phillips’s opinion that the mutilations indicated "a practised hand" led the police to consider whether the murderer might be a doctor or someone with anatomical knowledge, such as a butcher. This has been a controversial topic ever since.