The Mystery of the Black Bag

Leon Goldstein's testimony at Lehman Street Station would stay tucked away in the police files for decades, like so many of Donald Swanson's observations and conclusions. Catherine Eddle's inquest was a different matter altogether, and there was a different man in the lead. Her murder in Miter Square took the case not only into the jurisdiction of the London City Police, but also across into the jurisdictions of a different coroner. The deep grief they expressed echoes the other families, whose voices come to us out of each inquest, telling the stories of women who could not be brought back from the grave.