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It was a nine days' wonder, this murder of a drunken slut, and many were the theories which were advanced. The inquest proved that the woman had suffered from rough treatment at the hands of her assailants. She owed her death to strangulation.
No arrests were made, and the crime was added to the list of London's unravelled mysteries.