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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.
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], a CID officer in 1888, who was attached to the H or Whitechapel Division of the Metropolitan Police. In , 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'''.