A Double EventAs Albert Norris slept soundly beside Betty that Saturday night, with Billy the terrier snoring in his usual place at the foot of the stairs, events in Whitechapel unfolded at an alarming pace. At around 1 a.m., Louis Diemschütz drove his horse and cart into Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street, Whitechapel and discovered the freshly murdered body of Elizabeth Stride. Theorists have since put forward the idea that the killer may have been lurking in the shadows of the yard as Diemschütz entered the premises and that his arrival may have prevented the murderer from carrying out the mutilations already perpetrated on earlier victims. Certainly, Elizabeth Stride had not been subjected to the same degree of mutilation as Annie Chapman or Mary Nicholls, but the same could not be sai
