Monday 8th Oct 1888 - Catherine Eddowes Laid to Rest
1.20pm
Good afternoon from Whitechapel on October 8th 1888. Today a funeral is taking places of the latest poor victim. Catharine Eddowes has been placed in a polished elm coffin with oak mouldings at the City Mortuary and is awaiting removal. There is a plate with the inscription, in gold letters, "Catherine Eddowes, died Sept. 30, 1888, aged 43 years."
1.30pm
The hearse has now arrived and her coffin is lifted in. Outside in Golden Lane, a multitude of persons has assembled. The thoroughfare is thronged with people, and windows and roofs of adjoining buildings are occupied by groups of spectators. One of the sisters of the deceased lays a beautiful wreath on the coffin as it is placed in the hearse. The procession leaves, consisting of a hearse, a mourning coach, containing relatives and friends of the deceased. A brougham conveying representatives of the press in within the procession. The road is so packed it can barely move ahead.
1.50pm
The route taken after leaving Old-street is by way of Great Eastern- street, Commercial-street, Whitechapel-road. The procession passes via Mile-end-road, through Stratford and to the City cemetery at Ilford.
2.00pm
A large crowd has collected opposite the parish church of St. Mary.s, Whitechapel, to see the procession pass. At the cemetery it is awaited by several hundreds, most of whom have apparently made their way thither from the East-end. Men and women of all ages, many of the latter carrying infants in their arms, gather round the grave. The remains are interred in the Church of England portion of the cemetery, the service being conducted by Rev. Mr. Dunscombe. Mr. G. C. Hawkes, a vestryman of St. Luke.s, undertook the responsibility of carrying out the funeral at his own expense. The mourners are the four sisters of the murdered woman, Harriet Jones, Emma Eddowes, Eliza Gold, and Elizabeth Fisher. Also along side are her two nieces Emma and Harriet Jones, and John Kelly, the man with whom she had lived.
The notoriety of this poor lady's killer will live on in infamy, but this devastated family's anguish will be forgotten.
The lack of respect shown for this poor woman's death is evident already, as reported in this article in today's newspaper: "A pavement artist attracted an immense crowd, on Saturday by his horrible portraiture of incidents of the recent murders. His cartoon of the finding of the body in Mitre-square was certainly a masterpiece of sanguinary ghastliness. What it lacked in delineation it made up in disgusting details, and there was a constant struggle to get a view of it."