On Tuesday, 10 February, a 43-year-old prostitute, Margaret Florence Lowe (also known as Pearl), was murdered in her flat in Gosfield Street, Marylebone. She had been strangled with a silk stocking, and her body mutilated with a variety of implements including a razor blade, a knife and a poker. Bernard Spilsbury, the pathologist examining Lowe's body, after seeing her injuries commented that they were "quite dreadful" and that the murderer was "a savage sexual maniac".[2]