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As Diemschutz steered his cart into the dark courtyard his pony recoiled and pulled to the left. Diemschutz prodded a bundle with his whip, then got down off his cart to investigate. He lit a match and briefly saw the figure of a woman. Diemschutz rushed into the club and told his wife and several others that there was a woman lying in the alley but "that he was unable to say whether she was drunk or dead". He grabbed a candle and rushed back to the yard with a man named Isaac Kozebrodsky. In the dim candlelight, the men saw that the woman was indeed dead and lying in a pool of blood. Diemschutz and Kozebrodsky ran off for help, shouting, “Police!”
One club member, [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Morris_Eagle 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.