Tom Holland
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Appearances Over Time
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And I think that that is clearly why that evening, despite the fact that the rain is very, very torrential, Mary Jane seems to have been desperate to solicit clients.
After Joseph Bennett has gone, she clearly leaves her room and goes out into the streets and is trying to attract custom.
And we have two witnesses who would subsequently claim to have seen her with men that night.
And the first of these is a man who is seen accompanying her into her room by someone who is looking down from one of the top stories around Miller's Court.
So he is lit by that gas lamp that we mentioned.
And he's described as having a thick, carroty moustache.
He's dressed in shabby, dark clothes.
He's got a dark overcoat.
He's got a black felt hat.
And he is seen just before midnight.
He's going into the room with Mary Jane.
And Mary Jane at the time was reportedly quite drunk.
She was in a mood for an Irish ballad.
And we know it.
And the lyrics I find incredibly sad, kind of so full of pathos.
So she sang, scenes of my childhood arise before my gaze, bringing recollections of bygone happy days.
When down in the meadow in childhood, I would roam.
No one's left to cheer me now within that good old home.
So whoever she was,
She'd clearly left her home behind and she had no family that she would acknowledge or who would acknowledge her or maybe even knew where she was.