The Echo
London
September 14, 1888
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Our reporter visited 35 Dorset street (a common lodging house) this afternoon, and saw Tim Donovan, the deputy, and a woman named Elizabeth Allen, who stated that "Dark Annie" would sometimes sleep there three or four nights a week, and was so particular as to the accommodation that, said Elizabeth Allen, she always insisted upon having an eightpenny bed, which carries with it greater advantages than those accorded by a fourpenny or sixpenny "doss." "The lodgers having the cheaper bed," said the woman, "were expected to turn out earlier in the morning." Elizabeth Allen noticed "Dark Annie" came back into the house on the afternoon of the day before her death. At that time there was no man with her, and Annie Chapman remarked to Elizabeth Allen, "Betty, I'm sick of this. I've no money, and shan't come in here tonight. If someone would give me a pair of boots I should go off hopping at once." "Dark Annie's" last words to her friend were, "Goodbye , Betty. Be good."
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