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THE EAST END MURDERS
The adjourned inquiry into the death of Elizabeth Stride, who was found murdered in Berner-street on the 29th ult., was resumed yesterday afternoon at the Vestry-hall, Cable-street, before the coroner, Mr. Wynne Baxter. – Inspector Reed stated that since the last hearing he had discovered the statements which were made by Mrs. Malcolm to be untrue in every particular. Mrs. Malcolm had declared that the body was that of her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Watts. He had discovered from the books of a Poplar benefit society on the 24th of October, 1884. – Police-constable John Stride said he had recognised the portrait of the murdered woman as that of a his aunt. She was married to his uncle, John Thomas Stride, in 1872 – Mrs. Elizabeth Stokes said that her first husband was a Mr. Watts, a wine merchant, of Bath. She was now married to a brickmaker named Stokes. She denied every statement made by her sister, Mrs. Malcolm, whom she had not seen for five years. On the conclusion of the evidence the coroner delivered an elaborate summing up, which lasted for three-quarters of an hour, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown.
