Chapter 10
THE BODY OF ALICE NEWTON WAS FISHED OUT OF THE THAMES, almost two months to the day after he discovery of Black Eyed Mary’s corpse. She had died in an identical fashion, crucified, tortured and mutilated, and then her body tossed contemptuously in the river. Unlike Black Eyed Mary, Alice Newton was not a p********e. She was employed as the downstairs maid for the family of Doctor Hastings-Haskey, senior professor at the University of London Medical School. The family of Doctor Hastings-Haskey, who lived in an elegant four storey Georgian terrace house in Montague Street, Bloomsbury, thought very highly of Alice and were most distressed at her murder, especially Camellia Hastings-Haskey, the seven year old daughter of the house. She cried bitterly for Alice and refused to let an
