Ethan left the apartment to track down the identities and residences of the victims to find a pattern. He headed straight for the local municipal offices, aware that in this rigid era, all deaths and residences were meticulously recorded.
Ethan located the General Register Office for the region. It was a dusty, bureaucratic building where clerks moved with agonizing slowness. Using a mixture of polite persistence and flashing a few coins, Ethan managed to gain access to the public ledgers listing recent deaths.
He scanned the records, cross-referencing dates and locations from the newspaper article Miles had shown him. He quickly found the entries for the individuals described:
Victim 1: James Davies. Found at a boarding house in the local district, Burlington. Cause of Death: Unknown.
Victim 2: Clara Jenkins. Found in a narrow alley off a main street in Burlington. Cause of Death: Unknown.
