Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth Stride
Jack The Ripper's third victim
Most experts consider Elizabeth Stride to be the third victim of Jack The Ripper.
The body in Berner Street
On 30th September, 1888 at approximately 12.45am, a Hungarian immigrant, Israel Schwartz, was walking along Berner Street when he witnessed a "broad-shouldered" man ahead of him attacking a woman who was standing near the entrance to a dark courtyard called Dutfield’s Yard.
Schwartz was frightened and crossed to the other side of the street, where he then noticed a second man standing at the corner lighting a pipe.
The broad-shouldered attacker noticed Schwartz and shouted out something that sounded like "Lipski!" Schwartz left the area in a hurry.
About 15 minutes later, at 1am, Louis Diemschutz was driving his costermonger’s barrow along Berner Street and turned into Dutfield’s Yard. This was where Schwartz had witnessed the woman being attacked fifteen minutes earlier.
Dutfield’s Yard was a narrow courtyard between two buildings. On the south side of the yard was a brick house, and farther back were several "terraced cottages, occupied by sweat shop tailors and cigar makers." On the north side was 40 Berner Street, the two-story building that housed the International Workingmen’s Educational Club, where Diemschutz was steward and manager.
