Below is a table of witness descriptions pertaining to the murderer.

Witness	Scene	Time	Appearance	Diction
Patrick Mulshaw	Polly Nichols	4:00 A.M.	Suspicious	"Watchman, old man, I believe somebody is murdered down the street."
Emily Walter (?)	Annie Chapman	2:00 A.M.	Foreigner aged 37, dark beard and moustache. Wearing short dark jacket, dark vest and trousers, black scarf and black felt hat.	Asked witness to enter the back- yard of 29 Hanbury Street.
Elizabeth Long	Annie Chapman	5:30 A.M.	Dark complexion, brown deerstalker hat, possibly a dark overcoat. Aged over 40, somewhat taller than Chapman. A foreigner of "shabby genteel."	"Will you?"
J. Best and John Gardner	Elizabeth Stride	11:00 P.M.	5'5" tall, English, black moustache, sandy eyelashes, weak, wearing a morning suit and a billycock hat.	(none)
William Marshall	Elizabeth Stride	11:45 P.M.	Small, black coat, dark trousers, middle aged, round cap with a small sailor-like peak. 5'6", stout, appearance of a clerk. No moustache, no gloves, with a cutaway coat.	"You would say anything but your prayers." Spoken mildly, with an English accent, and in an educated manner.
Matthew Packer	Elizabeth Stride	12:00 - 12:30 P.M.	Aged 25-30, 5'7", long black coat buttoned up, soft felt hawker hat, broad shoulders. Maybe a young clerk, frock coat, no gloves.	Quiet in speaking, with a rough voice
P.C. William Smith	Elizabeth Stride	12:30 A.M.	Aged 28, cleanshaven and respectable appearance, 5'7", hard dark felt deerstalker hat, dark clothes. Carrying a newspaper parcel 18 x 7 inches.	(none)
James Brown	Elizabeth Stride	12:45 A.M.	5'7", stout, long black diagonal coat which reached almost to his heels.	(none)
Israel Schwartz	Elizabeth Stride	12:45 A.M.	First man: Aged 30, 5'5", brown haired, fair complexion, small brown moustache, full face, broad shoulders, dark jacket and trousers, black cap with peak.	"Lipski!"
			Second man: Aged 35, 5'11", fresh complexion, light brown hair, dark overcoat, old black hard felt hat with a wide brim, clay pipe.	(none)
Joseph Lawende	Catharine Eddowes	1:30 A.M.	Aged 30, 5'7", fair complexion, brown moustache, salt-and-pepper coat, red neckerchief, grey peaked cloth cap. Sailor-like.	(none)
James Blenkinsop	Catharine Eddowes	1:30 A.M.	Well-dressed.	"Have you seen a man and a woman go through here?"
Mary Ann Cox	Mary Kelly	11:45 P.M.	Short, stout man, shabbily dressed. Billycock hat, blotchy face, carroty moustache, holding quart can of beer	(none)
George Hutchinson	Mary Kelly	2:00 A.M.	Aged 34-35, 5'6", pale complexion, dark hair, slight moustached curled at each end, long dark coat, collar cuffs of astrakhan, dark jacket underneath. Light waistcoat, thick gold chain with a red stone seal, dark trousers and button boots, gaiters, white buttons. White shirt, black tie fastened with a horseshoe pin. Dark hat, turned down in middle. Red kerchief. Jewish and respectable in appearance. (George Hutchinson's original testimony - Adobe PDF, 247KB) PDF courtesy of Thomas Schachner	(none)