The Ripper's Scare Was Over

Star reporter claimed that Dr. Phillips, who had examined the body of Annie Chapman at Handbury Street, believed that she had been strangled before her throat was cut. When he swept in to examine Rose's body on Christmas Eve, Dr. Bond said that there was no mark on her neck from a cord and certainly not the kind of thing you would expect if she'd been strangled violently. It was police against coroner, surgeons at each other's throats, and the star, flogging on the idea that the ripper was still hunting in the east end. For others, though, the eyes of Mary Kelly were the last desperate avenue of investigation. They called in expert photographers and used