Evidently paying no heed to Charles Warren’s order of July 19, the police of the H Division simply wrote the word “prostitute” in the space designating a victim’s occupation on forms documenting Annie’s murder. Just as they had with Polly Nichols’s case, the authorities began their inquiry from a fixed position: that Annie must have been a prostitute, a stance that from thereon guided the direction of their investigation, as well as the attitudes and interrogations of the coroner’s court.
