Dr F. G. Brown described the portion of apron still with the body as 'it was the corner of the apron with a string attached'. One hour free parking spaces (specific bays identified by a sign plate) are available for shoppers on market days.

Also, The Daily Telegraph, Oct 2nd, '....while throwing a light upon the movements of the murderer after he quitted Mitre Square, an important piece of evidence was obtained yesterday. When the body was examined there was a piece of white coarse apron still attached to it. The missing portion was discovered yesterday in Goulston Street....' He had now murdered twice in less than an hour and was, no doubt, well aware that the area would soon be teeming with police officers, each one of them intent on hunting him down and catching him. There were several police around the spot when I arrived, both Metropolitan and City. The writing was on the jamb of the open archway or doorway visible to anybody in the street and could not be covered up without danger of the covering being torn off at once.....' But, if the apron solves the mystery of why the killer was able to escape without anyone noticing any bloodstains, it throws up another puzzle in that its presence in that particular doorway suggests that he lingered in the immediate vicinity of his crime for much longer than he actually needed to. There are also some great fashion bargains and other goods available throughout the week along Wentworth Street . LocationWalter Dew later remarked that the graffito was one of many pieces of writing in the East End that could have been blamed on the murderer, though he did not believe any of them were genuine [13]. It may also have been a piece of anti-semitic graffiti, of which there was much in the area at that time. Taken at face-value, the message does appear to be accusing or exonerating the Jews from something, the double meaning created by the use of the double-negative - are the Jews to be blamed for something or not? And if so, what? N 0°4′30.14″W / 51.5165306°N 0.0750389°W / 51.5165306; -0.0750389 Copy of graffito in Goulston Street, attached to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren's report to the Home Office on the Whitechapel murders. A further speculation is that the message was left here, irrespective of lighting or distance, because the building housed a lot of Jews and the message is assumed to say ‘Jews’ in its unusual and varied spellings. This may be true also. I’m not sure if there were any other buildings that were predominantly Jewish en route from Mitre Square, but there may well have been. Nevertheless, it’s as ‘good’ a reason to think that it was placed at the Wentworth as any.

They were not so keen to erase what they saw as an important clue in their investigation and the two forces clashed over what should be done about the graffito. Resolved, that this Board regards with horror and alarm the several atrocious murders recently perpetrated within the district of Whitechapel and its vicinity, and calls upon Sir Charles Warren so to regulate and strengthen the police force in the neighbourhood as to guard against any repetition of such atrocities.”

Metropolitan Board of Works plan of the Artisans Dwellings Improvement Scheme for Goulston Street, Whitechapel, November 1876 Yet, he didn't head to the relative safety of the streets to the west, the north or the south of Mitre Square, but rather he went into the streets where much of the activity was directed to his capture.

Now we have a better idea of why P.C. Long stated quite firmly at the inquest '...I passed that spot where the apron was found about 2.20am the apron was not there when I passed then' Bow Church (DLR);Bow Road (District, Hammersmith & City);Mile End (Central, District, Hammersmith & City) Parking for saturday only You must book your one hour free session using the RingGo app or calling the number on the sign plate (43 spaces) Related services It was the northern half of the street which came under the scrutiny of the Metropolitan Board of Works when the Cross Act of 1875 earmarked it for demolition on account of its dangerous slum tenements. At the same time, properties in George Yard and the Flower and Dean Street area were also suggested for redevelopment. The resulting changes in Goulston Street meant that unsanitary dwellings in Three Tun Alley (on the west side) and Goulston Court (on the east) were wiped out, along with much of the west side of Goulston Street itself. [5]You must book your one hour free session using the RingGo app or calling the number on the sign plate (11 spaces) Roman Road Market (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) But, as Superintendent Arnold, of the Metropolitan Police, later pointed out in a report, "Had only a portion of the writing been removed the context would have remained." SIR CHARLES WARREN ARRIVES By this time the stretcher had arrived, and when we got the body to the mortuary, the first discovery we made was that about one-half of the apron was missing. It had been severed by a clean cut'.