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One club member, Morris Eagle, also set off with a companion and found two police constables on Commercial Road. [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=PC_Henry_Lamb PC Henry Lamb] and [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=PC_Edward_Collins PC Edward Collins] immediately went to Dutfield’s Yard. When PC Lamb arrived, he shone his lantern on the body. The woman was lying on her side with her knees drawn up in a sort of foetal position, and her throat had been cut. According to PC Henry Lamb, "She looked as if she had been laid quietly down". PC Lamb sent PC Edward Collins to call for a doctor. Lamb also told Morris Eagle to report the murder at the Leman Street police station.
Dr Frederick Blackwell arrived at approximately 1.16 am. Dr Blackwell noted that the woman’s face was still slightly warm, and he estimated that she had died only twenty or thirty minutes earlier. The woman’s right hand was smeared with blood and lay across her breast, and her left hand, lying partly closed on the ground, "contained a small packet of cachous [breath fresheners] wrapped in tissue paper". She was wearing a checked scarf around her neck, the knot of which was turned to the side and "pulled tightly", which gave Blackwell the impression that the killer had pulled the woman backward with the scarf, perhaps choking her so that she couldn’t scream. As the postmortem examination would later reveal, the woman’s throat had been deeply cut from left to right. Unlike the previous victims, however, she had no abdominal mutilations. The police took down the names of the club members and then conducted inquiries at the crime scene until 5 am.