Entered from either Commercial Road or Fairclough Street, Batty Street ran parallel with both Berner Street and Christian Street. Further entry, from Berner Street, could also be gained through a covered alleyway, where at one of its corners with Batty Street stood The Red Lion public house. At a nearby lodging house, 22 Batty Street, the landlady had reported that after the murder of Elizabeth Stride she had found bloodstained shirts that had once belonged to a mysterious American lodger. Unsubstantiated, a rumour has since persisted that the police had kept a watch on the house, suspecting the American lodger of being Jack the Ripper.