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Case File: Tabram, Martha née White (1888)
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THE WHITECHAPEL MYSTERY – Up to the present all attempts on the part of the police to dispel the mystery surrounding the death of the woman Turner, who was found in George-yard, Whitechapel, have failed, Inquiries have brought to light the fact that on the night preceding the murder Turner and a woman giving the name of Connolly were in company with two soldiers, and that something was said as to Turner accompanying one of the men to George-yard. Police-constable Barrett, 226 H, was on duty in the neighborhood of George-yard about two o’clock on the morning of the tragedy, and noticed a soldier loitering. Barrett remarked that it was quite time he was in barracks, and the soldier replied that he was waiting for a comrade who had accompanied a woman to one of the buildings close at hand. At a parade of soldiers which took place at the Tower on Monday Barrett identified the man whom he had accosted, but the soldier refused to give any account of himself. A parade will take place at Wellington Barracks, probably to-day, and Barrett will then be accompanied by the woman Connolly. The police state that the mortal wound which the woman received in the left breast presented the appearance of having been inflicted by a bayonet, whereas the other wounds were knife wounds. The woman, who had been known as Martha Turner, is said to have lived apart from her husband for some years, and to have latterly got her living as a hawker. Yesterday morning the police received from a man at Guildford a letter of inquiry. The man gives the name of Thomas Hunt, a states that illness had prevented his coming to ascertain if the woman Turner was his wife.
