 Eddowes ' body was found in Mitre Square in the City of London , three @-@ quarters of an hour after Stride 's . The throat was severed and the abdomen was ripped open by a long , deep , jagged wound . The left kidney and the major part of the uterus had been removed . A local man named Joseph Lawende had passed through the square with two friends shortly before the murder , and he described seeing a fair @-@ haired man of shabby appearance with a woman who may have been Eddowes . His companions were unable to confirm his description . Eddowes ' and Stride 's murders were later called the " double event " . Part of Eddowes ' bloodied apron was found at the entrance to a tenement in Goulston Street , Whitechapel . Some writing on the wall above the apron piece became known as the Goulston Street graffito and seemed to implicate a Jew or Jews , but it was unclear whether the graffito was written by the murderer as he dropped the apron piece , or was merely incidental . Such graffiti were commonplace in Whitechapel . Police Commissioner Charles Warren feared that the graffito might spark anti @-@ semitic riots and ordered it washed away before dawn . 
