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Mary Kelly's Inquest - Viewing The Body And The Room.

The inquest into Mary Kelly's death opened at Shoreditch Town Hall on the morning of Monday the 12th of November, 1888. One the jury had bee sworn in, they were taken to the nearby mortuary, where they viewed the body of the victim. From here they were ushered along Commercial Street and into Dorset Street. Here, they squeezed through the narrow entrance into Miller's Court and were taken into number 13, the room in which Jack the Ripper had murdered his latest victim. Accompanying the jurors was a special reporter from The Pall Mall Gazette, and that night his report on what he had observed was published. It gives us a first hand account of what happened that day, and of the scene in the streets as those who lived in the district reacted to the horror that had occurred in their midst. In this video, you will be able to follow the report as it appeared in the Gazette, as you see the locations mentioned, as they are today and as they were at the time.