Editing Mary Ann Nichols (section)

===Tomkins, Henry T.  (Sep 3)===
<nowiki>#</nowiki>12 Coventry St, Bethnal Green, horse slaughterer.  "I am employed by Messrs. Barber, and was working all night on Thursday. I started at eight o'clock at the slaughter-house, Winthrope-street, and finished about a quarter-past four. Then I went to look at the murdered woman, which a policeman had told us of a few minutes before. He said there had been a woman murdered in Buck's row.

* Coroner: Who worked with you?
* Tomkins: There are three of us work together, James Mumford, Charles Brittan, and myself.  I and Brittan left the slaughter-house at twelve o'clock, and returned about one o'clock or a little later. We did not leave the place after till we were told of the murder.
* Coroner: Did you go far?
* Tomkins: No, only as far as the court.
* Coroner: The latter part of the night, were you at the door at all?
* Tomkins: No
* Coroner: Was it quiet in the slaughter-house, say from two o'clock?
* Tomkins: Yes, sir; very quiet.
* Coroner: Are your gates and doors open, and could you hear what passed in the street? 
* Tomkins: All our gates were open, but I heard no noise or cry.
* Coroner: Did any one come to the slaughter house that night?
* Tomkins: No, sir; no one but the policeman.
* Coroner: Did you see any women that night?
* Tomkins: Not about there; but there were some in the Whitechapel-road; plenty of all sorts.
* Coroner: Now, supposing any one had called out in Buck's row "Murder! Police! or something like that, should you have heard it? 
* Tomkins: No; our place is too far away for that.
* Coroner: Who went to see the woman first?
* Tomkins: Two of us went first, and my mate came after. There were three or four policemen, a sergeant, and the doctor, and I think there were two men there before us.