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On 30th November, 1888, Barnett and Kelly separated and he moved to New Road.
Mary Kelly’s movements on the night before her murder are unclear.
* At 11.45 pm, Kelly’s neighbour Mary Ann Cox, another prostitute, was returning home and followed Kelly and a man as they walked up the court through the arched. Kelly’s companion was a man about five feet five inches tall, stout, about thirty-six years of age, and shabbily dressed in a dark overcoat and a round black billycock hat.
* At 2am George Hutchinson saw Mary Kelly back on Commercial Street.
At 10.45am, John McCarthy sent his servant, Thomas Bowyer, to collect overdue rent from Mary Kelly. Mary was 29 shillings in arrears. Thomas Bowyer knocked on the door several times after which he walked around to the corner by the gutter spout to peer into Kelly’s window. He reached through the hole in the broken glass and pulled the curtain aside. Bowyer noticed "the body of somebody lying on the bed, and there was blood on the floor".
Bowyer rushed back to John McCarthy and said:
<blockquote>"Governor, I knocked at the door, and couldn’t make anyone answer. I looked through the window and saw a lot of blood".</blockquote>
McCarthy and Bowyer returned to Kelly’s room, and McCarthy looked through the window. McCarthy sent Bowyer to fetch the police. It's understood that McCarthy soon chased after Bowyer.
Bowyer stormed into the Commercial Street Police Station where he told Detective Constable Walter Dew:
<blockquote>"Another one ... Jack the Ripper ... awful ... Jack McCarthy sent me".</blockquote>
Detective Constable Walter Dew said of Thomas Bowyer: <blockquote>"The poor fellow was so frightened that for a time he was unable to utter a single intelligible word".</blockquote> Inspector Walter Beck, on duty with Detective Constable Walter Dew sent someone to fetch Dr George Bagster Phillips in nearby Spital Square, then dispatched a telegram to Scotland Yard. Beck closed off the Miller's Court. Dr Phillips arrived at Miller’s Court at approximately 11.15am. The door was locked. There was an initial delay in breaking the door down as it was understood bloodhounds may have been on the way to track the scent. When Detective Frederick Abberline arrived at 11.30am, he was informed that they were still waiting for the bloodhounds. At 1.20pm Superintendent Arnold arrived and informed everybody that the order had been cancelled, and the bloodhounds were not coming. He gave the order to break down the door,. Inspector Henry Moore later said that the murderer "cut the skeleton so clean of flesh that when I got here I could hardly tell whether it was a man or a woman". Mary Kelly’s movements Kelly was savagely mutilated: * Mark Kelly was lying on her back* Her legs were wide apart* Her throat had been severed* Her body had apparently been moved to the middle of the bed and eviscerated* Most of the night before skin had been removed from her murder are unclearthighs* Her breasts had been cut off by circular incisions* One of her breasts was near her right foot and the other was under her head * Her intestines were by her left side* Her liver was between her feet* The table next to the bed contained large flaps of skin and muscle that had been removed from her abdomen and her thighs* Her face had been mutilated "beyond recognition" In total four doctors (Dr George Phillips, Dr Thomas Bond, Dr Gordon Brown of the City Police, and Dr John Rees) performed examinations in the room until the late afternoon. == Postmortem == The postmortem took place on November 10th, 1888, at 7.30am. The postmortem examination was conducted at the mortuary next to the Whitechapel Church. Dr Phillips, Dr Bond, Dr Brown, and Dr William Dukes of Spitalfields concluded that (as in the other cases) death had resulted from a severed carotid artery. The throat had been slashed so many times that it was impossible to determine the direction of the cuts. == The Inquest ==
== Early Life ==