Obituary Of Coroner Baxter

Mr. Wynne Edwin Baxter was the East Middlesex Coroner who held the inquiries respecting the deaths of many of the Ripper's victims. He held the inquests into the deaths of Emma Elizabeth Smith, Ripper victims Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Alice Mackenzie, and the Pinchin Street Torso.

WYNNE EDWIN BAXTER, Deceased.
Pursuant to the Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859.

NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Wynne Edwin Baxter, late of 170, Church-street, Stoke Newington, in the county of London, No. 2, The Granvilles, The Stroud, in the county of Gloucester, and 9, Albion-street, Lewes, in the county of Sussex (who died on the first day of October, 1920, and whose will was proved in the Probate Division of the High Court of Justice at the Principal Registry, on the thirtieth day of November, 1920, by Reginald Truscott Baxter and Francis William Baxter, two of the executors named in the said will), are hereby required to send the particulars, in writing, of their claims and demands to the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executors, on or before the eighth day of August, 1921, after which date the said executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims and demands of which they shall then have had notice; and will not be made liable for the assets of the said deceased, or any part thereof, so distributed, to any person or persons of whose claims or demands they shall not then have had notice. - Dated this 29th day of June, 1921.

WYNNE-BAXTER and KEEBLE, of 9, Laurence Pountney-hill, in the City of London, Solicitors to the said Executors.

Source: The London Gazette, July 1, 1921, page 5278