Victims of Jack Elizabeth Stride
DIRECTIONS FOR THE NEXT SECTION OF YOUR JACK THE RIPPER TOUR. At the end of Plumber’s Row turn right into Coke Street, first left into Weyhill Road, left again onto Commercial Road and go over the crossing, off which bear left then first right into Henriques Street, formerly Berners Street. THE THIRD OF JACK THE RIPPER'S VICTMS.
ELIZABETH STRIDE.
MURDERED SEPTEMBER 30th 1888. In 1888, a little way along on the right on the site now occupied by the School Yard, stood the entrance to Dutfields Yard. In the photograph to the left it is the yard with the wheel hanging over it.  ISRAEL SCHWARTZ SEES JACK THE RIPPER At around 12.45am on September 30th 1888 a man named Isael Scwhartz turned into Berners Street and noticed a man walking slightly ahead of him. he also saw a woman standing in the gateway of Dutfields Yard. Schwartz watched as man approached the woman. They exchanged words. Then there was an altercation, the man became violent and threw the woman to the ground. Israel Schwartz crossed the road to get away from what he thought was a piece of domestic violence. He subsequently identified the body of Elizabeth Stride as being the woman that he had seen. The probability is that the man he had followed up the street was the person who killed Elizabeth Stride. It’s very difficult to believe that two different women would have been assaulted either by the same man or by different men in the same place. So he probably saw the murderer. JACK THE RIPPER VICTIMS - ELIZABETH STRIDE.  At 1 o’clock in the morning of the 30th of September a carter named Louis Diemshutz turned his pony and cart into Dutfield’s Yard. As he did so the pony reared up in alarm and pulled away to the left, something had disturbed it. Looking down Diemshutz could just about discern a dark shape lying on the ground by the wall. Jumping from his cart he struck a match to get a better view. It was very windy and the match was extinguished almost immediately. But in the brief seconds flickering light he saw the bundle was infact the prone form of a woman. He had discovered the body of Elizabeth Stride, the third of the victims of Jack the Riper.
Although Elizabeth Stride's throat had been cut, the rest of the body had not been mutilated and this led police to surmise that he had been interrupted as he went about his bloody business. Is it possible that as he commenced the mutilations on Elizabeth Stride, the pony and cart turned into the yard and disturbed him? Did he jump back into the shadows? And was it that sudden movement that caused the pony to shy up and pull away to the left? Diemshutz of course was distractd by his gruesome find, so Jack the Ripper would have had ample opportunity to slip out into the shadows and then be able to lose himself in the excitement that news of another Whitecapel murder was generating.
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