At 340 a.m. on the morning of August 31st, 1888, a car

named Charles Cross made his way down the narrow avenue of Bucks Row on his way

to work. In the early morning darkness,

Cross stopped at the site of a large object lying in the doorway of a horse stable.

He walked closer to investigate, thinking it was a tarpaulin abandoned in the street.

A few feet closer though, he realized the figure on the ground was human.

As he hesitated, unsure of how to proceed, he heard another man's approaching footsteps.

It was another Carter, Robert Paul, also headed to work.

Cross called the other Carter over, telling him that there was a woman in the street.

Together, in the dark, the two men approached the figure stretched out on the ground.

She was lying prone, her skirts pulled up to her waist.

Tendatively, they felt her hands and face, finding them cold.

Cross thought that he sensed some movement in her chest, though,

which allowed the possibility that she was alive. The men tugged

her skirts down over her knees to at least cover her up and argued whether they should

prop her up in the doorway. They were unsettled by the whole incident though and they were both

running late for work. They decided not to render further assistance on the

scene, justifying their behavior by agreeing to tell the first constable they ran into on their way about what they had seen.

They left the woman's body alone on Bucks Row, lying across the gateway.

Minutes later, they came across Police Constable Meizan. the my part. I think she's dead. Minutes after the two Carter's left the body, PC John

Neil was walking his beat when he came across the corpse lying on the ground on

Buck's row. Shining his lancherd onto her face. Shining his lantern onto her face, he saw that her eyes were wide open, staring

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