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|title=Inspector Edmund Reid - H Division - Whitechapel
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|description=Inspector Edmund Reid was known as the Local Inspector. Inspector Reid was Head of CID in the Metropolitan Police’s H or Whitechapel Division.
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== Inspector Edmund Reid - H Division - Whitechapel ==
[[File:Edmund-Reid-310.jpg|300px||right|Inspector Edmund Reid]]
'''Inspector Edmund Reid''' was known as the ‘'''Local Inspector'''’. Inspector Reid was Head of CID in the Metropolitan Police’s '''H or Whitechapel Division'''. Reid took charge of the [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Martha_Tabram#Martha_Tabram Martha Tabram] murder investigation.
Inspector Reid's second witness, a "tall, masculine-looking prostitute", visited Commercial Street Police Station on 9th August and said that she had been in the company of the deceased on Bank Holiday night.
Her name was [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Mary_Ann_Connelly Mary Ann Connelly ] - more commonly known as '''Pearly Poll'''. On 6th August Mary Connelly detailed how she and Martha had been drinking with two soldiers in Whitechapel from 10.00 to 11.45 in the evening. The soldiers were guardsmen, one a corporal, the other a private.
Mary Connelly said that the couples parted company and Martha left for George Yard with her soldier. Mary Connelly went on to inspect two identity parades. Both were unsuccessful.
In future documents Mary Connelly's input was to be classed as unhelpful. [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Walter_Dew Walter Dew was ], a CID officer in 1888, who was attached to the H or Whitechapel Division of the Metropolitan Police. When he wrote , said in his memoirs fifty years later that he accused Poll of suspected Mary Connelly had deliberately identifying identified the wrong men out of '''pique'''.