 Smith was robbed and sexually assaulted in Osborn Street , Whitechapel , on 3 April 1888 . A blunt object was inserted into her vagina , rupturing her peritoneum . She developed peritonitis and died the following day at London Hospital . She said that she had been attacked by two or three men , one of whom was a teenager . The attack was linked to the later murders by the press , but most authors attribute it to gang violence unrelated to the Ripper case . 
