This incident shows clearly that the escape of the Whitechapel
murderer is not so wonderful as it is sometimes described to be. Whether the body was that of a murdered woman or taken from a dissecting-room, it was carried to Pinchin Street, and laid there naked without any one questioning or perceiving the man who bore the ghastly, and very heavy, burden. It is possible, therefore, for a burdened murderer to pass throng Whitechapel unnoticed, and the great criminal, when he escapes, is unburdened. He probably looks his real character as little as possible, and as no one knows what has happened, passes out of Whitechapel like any other wayfarer, as one of the endless multitude of London. It would be well if Mr. Monro would test whether an agent of his own could walk unchallenged from one or two of the scenes of murder to the river. If he could, the distribution of the watching patrol might possibly be improved.
