Bull's Eye: По ту сторону мушки

The men informed the constable that there was a woman on the pavement either dead or "dead drunk." When Mizen and the two men reached the stable yard on Buck's Row, Constable John Neil had come across the body and was alerting other police in the area by calling out and flashing his bull's-eye lantern. The woman's throat had been severely cut, and Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn, who lived nearby at 152 Whitechapel Road, was immediately roused from bed and summoned to the scene. Mary Ann Nichols's identity was unknown at this time, and according to Dr. Llewellyn, she was "quite dead." Her wrists were cold, her body and lower extremities were still very warm. He was certain she had been dead less than half an hour and that her injuries were "not self-inflicted." He also observed that there was little blood around her neck or on the ground. He ordered the body moved to the nearby Whitechapel Workhouse mortuary, a private "dead house" for workhouse inmates and not intended for any sort of proper forensic postmortem examination ...»