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On November 12th the inquest commenced in a small committee room on the ground floor of the Shoreditch Town Hall, conducted by Dr Roderick McDonald, MP, the coroner for the North-Eastern District of Middlesex. Superintendent Arnold of H Division, Detective Abberline of CID, and Inspector James Nairn represented the police. The fifteen jurymen were taken to view the body at the mortuary and then went to inspect Kelly’s room.
In his inquest testimony, Dr George Bagster Phillips gave only a very limited description of Kelly’s wounds and did not describe the mutilations at all. Coroner McDonald then said, "It was clear that the severance of the artery was the immediate cause of death, and unless the jury otherwise desired, this was all the evidence Dr. Phillips proposed to give that day". The inquest was closed the same afternoon after the jury had passed a verdict of “Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.”
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