Editing Database: Catherine Eddowes

Catherine "Kate" Eddowes (14 April 1842 - 30 September 1888) was the fourth victim in the [[Whitechapel]] murders. She was the second woman killed in the early hours of Sunday 30 September 1888, a night which already had seen the murder of [[Elizabeth Stride]] less than an hour earlier.

Eddowes, also known as "Kate Conway" and "Kate Kelly" after her two successive common-law husbands, was born in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton on 14 April 1842.

In 1881, she was living with her second partner John Kelly at Cooney's common lodging-house, Spitalfields, at the centre of [[London]]'s most notorious criminal rookery. Here she took to casual prostitution to pay the rent.

Friends of Eddowes described her as "intelligent and scholarly, but possessed of a fierce temper". And "a very jolly woman, always singing".

The two [[Assassins] Rings found by [[Evie Frye|Evie]] months after the double murder suggests that both Eddowes and Stride we working for [[Jacob Frye|Jacob]]... Perhaps the real Eddowes or Stride survived to live out their lives in some other part of the world, while the two Assassins were buried under their names...
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