Reinvestigating Murder: How Did ‘Long Liz’ Die?
Israel Schwartz had apparently been in Britain only a matter of days when he became embroiled in history’s most famous murder mystery. At about a quarter to one on the morning of September 30th, 1888, Schwartz was walking up Berner Street from Commercial Road when;
“he saw a man stop & speak to a woman who was standing in the gateway. The man tried to pull the woman into the street & threw her down on the footway & the woman screamed three times but not very loudly”.
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