Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.

The umbrellas were out, the fine gowns too, along with the waistcoats and the hats.

It was an autumn Sunday in the city of London.

The only thing that made these crowds of Sunday walkers unusual was that they weren't gathering

to wander through Regent's Park.

No they were gathering on Hanbury Street.

It had been one day since a woman had been found in the yard behind number 29, but the

word had already gotten out throughout all of London.

When the papers reported on it they would say, the greatest excitement prevailed in White

Chapel and crowds thronged Hanbury streets and adjoining thoroughfares.

By Sunday evening the neighbors around 29 Hanbury Street were charging admission to come

inside and peek out the windows at the spot next door where the killing was done and the

body was found.

Note that there was much to see, just a dark patch on the ground.

Even so, one paper at least said that hundreds paid the neighbors to spy over the fence and

try to see the blood stain of the Hanbury Street murder.

Like the sketches showing policemen battling through crowds to move the body of the latest

victim to the mortuary, illustrations were published of the Sunday morning crowd as

well.

Dect out and dapper, ready to parade by the site wherein impoverished women had her throat

cut.

As far modernized, they may even feel like a grotesque contrast.

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