The Missing Kelly Mortuary Photo

On February 12, 2010, I posted an article which included the following statement:

"The mutilation was so frightful that more than an hour was spent by the doctors in endeavoring to reconstruct the woman's body from the pieces so as to place it in a coffin and have it photographed.
The poor woman's fragments, put together as skilfully as possible, are lying in the Houndsditch mortuary in a scratched and dirty shell of a coffin often used before."

This statement was in reference to the murder of Mary Jane Kelly and appeared in a news article from Switzerland. The reason that this statement is so crucially important is that six or seven doctors spent more than an hour endeavoring to reconstruct the woman's body and face in order to place it in a coffin and have it photographed. This means that there exists a photograph of the reconstructed remains of Mary Jane Kelly somewhere and I think I now understand which photograph is of Mary Jane Kelly in the scratched and dirty shell of a coffin and the photo is this one:

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The Results of Mary Jane Kelly's Surgical Reconstruction

Yellow square - gaping chest wound where chest cavity was split open to remove heart

Purple rectangle - lower rib cage

Light blue rectangle - photographic image of Prince Albert Victor resting on the inner portion of the shell (portrait, picture, painting)


This is a photograph that many believe is of Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes, but I will now explain why that is not the case:

* If you look closely at the photo, you will see that the corpse is wearing a chemise which the victim Mary Jane Kelly was found to have been wearing when she was discovered in her tiny room in Miller's Court.

* No injuries can be found on the body of this corpse as it is clothed in a thin, light-colored chemise, yet Catherine Eddowes was reported to have been wearing dark clothes on the night of her death.

* The corpse does not appear to have breasts which accounts for the removal of Mary Jane's breasts as per Dr. Bond's post-mortem report. Her breasts were removed and left on the bedside table.

* If you look carefully through the chemise you can make out the corpse's rib cage in the bottom right of the photograph (looks like a darkened area) and you can also see the gaping chest wound where Mary Jane Kelly's breast bone was split open in order for the murderer to remove her heart.

* The corpse is not undernourished here, it is all bones which accounts for the remains found on the bed in Miller's Court.

* The lines on the face are sutures where the reconstructed skin was grafted back onto the cut off areas of the cheeks, chin, and nose.

* The photographic image of Prince Albert Victor can be found on the right side of the picture which the corpse almost seems to be staring at even in her death pose.

* The corpse in this photo has very thick long hair and Mary Jane was noted for her thick long hair.

* Catherine Eddowes was already photographed in the mortuary in two photographs - the one in which you just see the injuries to her face, and the one in which she is propped up in an erect position against the wall. There would be no need to photograph Eddowes in a coffin or shell.

* As the Swiss article states, Mary Jane Kelly was reconstructed by a team of surgeons in order to have her photographed in the mortuary in a shell or coffin, complete with a chemise and a photograph of Prince Albert Victor so that future generations would know who was responsible for Mary Jane's death.

In my book, "Epiphany Of The Whitechapel Murders", Karen Trenouth, 2006 (Authorhouse), I highlighted several objects in the photograph of Mary Jane Kelly with the bedside table in the background. In that photo, taken in Miller's Court on November 9, I proved that the murderer was Prince Albert Victor by showing that a Baphomet idol and Eddie's Order of the Garter insignia was left at the crime scene and was photographed by the police officers who were present in Miller's Court on that day. The reason that none of these items was listed in the contents of the room is because the police were instructed to shield the identity of the murderer due to his high royalty. I think this is what Phil Carter is trying to tell us about the photograph found above - this is NOT Catherine Eddowes; it is MARY JANE KELLY! I read you loud and clear Phil, and you have my full support if this is your hypothesis.

Find below, the image of the human skeleton as seen from the anterior view. When looking at the Kelly mortuary photo seen below, you can make out the protrusion of the right ilium and the right clavicle.

The Human Skeleton:

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Photo credit: Daymix.com
Link: http://www1.daymix.com/Human-Skeleton-Bones/

The Cleaned Up Version of the Kelly photo:

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Orange square - the protruding rt ilium
Pink square - the rt clavicle
Green square - the lower rib cage below the gaping hole in the sternum
Red square - gaping hole in the sternum

Photo credit: Garry Wroe, who posted up his cleaned-up and enhanced mortuary photo on the Casebook website.
Link: http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=3828&page=21

This is one of the Catherine Eddowes mortuary photo and NOT Mary Kelly.

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That is what common Ripperologists want and expect you to believe, but several surgeons recontructed Mary Kelly's face and body while she was in a shell/coffin (See article with this proof below). You can see that the corpse's face and body is heavily reconstructed. Also the woman in the coffin has very thick long hair, which Mary Kelly did have. Catherine Eddowes' hair was short, thin and very black. Also, the corpse in the shell has a chest wound that is gaping. Catherine Eddowes did not have a gaping chest wound that was split open like that, and she was not photographed in a shell at all. Eddowes was photographed at the mortuary while pinned to a wall. You must steer clear of other Ripper sites since their information is not true at all.

Here is a photo of Catherine Eddowes at the mortuary, pinned to a wall, and you can see that her cuts have been sewn up. She also has most or all of her skin still left on her bones:



Another photo detailing her sutures. Also please notice her thin dark hair, that is almost stringy-looking.



This photo shows a woman whose skin is completely stripped off of her bones and her sternum is cracked open as if with a pick axe. You can even see that her ribs are showing. This photo is of Mary Jane Kelly. Look at her thick long hair.



Please read this article, in which it states, that Mary Jane Kelly had her face and body reconstructed by several surgeons, was then placed in a dirty shell or coffin, and photographed.

Re: Details Of Kelly's Murder and Inquest

 by Karen on Sun 23 Oct 2011 - 6:36
WHITECHAPEL AGAIN.
The Fiend of the London Slums at Work.
HIS LATEST DEVILISH ATROCITY.
Sickening Mutilation of His Victim, Who Belongs to the Same Class as the Others - The Crime Shrouded in the Usual Mystery and Committed Indoors This Time and *a Few Yards* from a Police Station - Horrible Details.

LONDON, Nov. 10. - A murder which took place in Spitalfields, Whitechapel district, yesterday morning, is undeniably a continuation of the series which was for a while interrupted for want of opportunity or inclination. In this case the murderer worked leisurely, as is made evident by the fact that the killing was done in a room fronting on the street, on the ground floor, and within *a few yards* of a temporary police station, whence officers issued hourly to patrol the district. The house the murder was committed in is situated in Miller's Court. The first door at the end and on the right of the passage opens into a tiny, damp room on a level with the pavement. The landlord of this and neighboring rooms is John McCarthy, who keeps a little shop in Dorset street on the side of the passage. About a year ago he rented it to a woman who looked about 30. She was popular among the females of the neighborhood, shared her beer generously, and went under the title of Mary Jane McCarthy. Her landlord knew that she had another name, Kelly, but her friends had not heard of it. Kelly and Mary Jane had been married in the manner which is considered satisfactory in Whitechapel. They had not gone to the expense of a license, but published the fact of their matrimony by living in one small room and sharing their joy and sorrow and drunkenness together.
Mary Jane took up her residence in the little room in Miller's Court when Kelly went away. Since then her life has been that of all the women about her. Thursday night she went out as usual, and was seen at various low beer shops in Commercial street. In those resorts she was known, not as Mary Jane, her home name, but as "Fair Emma," a title bestowed in complimentary allusion to her appearance. At last, just before midnight, she went home with some man who appears to have dissuaded her from making a good night visit, as was her custom, at a drinking place nearest her room. No description whatever can be obtained of this man. Right opposite the passage leading to Mary Jane's room there is a big and very pretentious lodging house, where the charge is fourpence. Some people congregated about the door at midnight are sure they saw a man and woman, the latter being Mary Jane, stop to laugh at a poster which offers 100 pounds reward for the Whitechapel murderer. The man must have enjoyed the joke, for he himself was the Whitechapel murderer, beyond all doubt.
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning three horrified policemen, who had first looked in through Mary Jane's window and then drank big glasses of brandy to steady themselves, were breaking in her door with a pickax. The Whitechapel murderer had done his work with more horrible thoroughness than ever before. The miserable woman's body was literally scattered all over her little room. Almost every conceivable mutilation had been practiced on the body. The woman's nose was cut off and the face gashed, she had been completely disemboweled, as had all the murderer's former victims, and all the intestines had been placed upon a little table, which, with a chair and the bed, constituted all the furniture in the room. Both the woman's breasts had been removed, and placed also on the table. Large portions of the thighs had been cut away, and the head was almost completely severed from the body. One leg also was almost completely cut off. The mutilation was so frightful that more than an hour was spent by the doctors in endeavoring to reconstruct the woman's body from the pieces so as to place it in a coffin and have it photographed.
The poor woman's fragments, put together as skilfully as possible, are lying in the Houndsditch mortuary in a scratched and dirty shell of a coffin often used before. The mortuary is in a graveyard back of gloomy old Houndsditch church, and not a pleasant spot late at night. While the body was being carried from the scene of the murder thousands crowded as near as the police would allow and gazed with lifted caps and pitying faces at the latest victim.
Gen. Sir Charles Warren was early on the scene and told a reporter that all the precaution in the world could not prevent the work of such murderers. The sole chance remaining to the police, he said, was to catch them redhanded and their change of tactics increased the difficulty. In the open air, where the killing had been hitherto, the chance of their apprehension was slight, but in the case of an indoor murder, such as the last, the hope of arresting the perpetrator was almost barren of fruition. This latest murder will undoubtedly cause large number of arrests on suspicion, but that the monster will be brought to bay is a matter of extreme doubt since he has left no clues not worked over by the officers investigating the previous cases.
The most annoying feature of the case is that the arrest of a number of innocent persons on suspicion will have to be repeated. The opinion of Archibald Forbes and Mr. Winslow that the assassin is a homicidal maniac is confirmed by the latest murder, and the prediction has become general that another murder will soon follow.

Source: The Evening Gazette, Saturday, November 10, 1888