Nine – My Victim IdentifiedLate the following morning, after carrying up my coffee, Mrs Griggs read to me from her papers (from the previous evening) of the Coroner's Inquest into the death of the George Yard murder victim. George Collier, Deputy Coroner for the South-Eastern Division of Middlesex, presiding (in place of the vacationing coroner, Wynne Baxter; on holiday in Scandinavia), convened the meeting at the Working Lads' Institute in Whitechapel Road. Detective Inspector Reid, 'aitch Division, appeared on behalf of the CID. A lot of blah, blah, blah followed, through which I tried to look interested for the sake of my good landlady. I'll mention a few bits.
Of the witnesses, Elizabeth Mahoney, who lived with her husband at No 47 George Yard (the respectable woman I spied unawares),
