One evening of April 2 1892 while roaming around Piccadilly, he spotted an especially good-looking young woman outside St. James Hall. He knew from her manner and attire that she was no lady. He approached her and introduced himself as Dr. Thomas Neill from America currently practicing at St. Thomas’ Hospital. She was impressed and followed him to the Palace Hotel on Garrick Street, where they spent the night together and enjoyed sexual intercourse several times. Over dinner at the hotel, he discovered her name was Lou Harvey and she lived near Primrose Hill at 55 Townsend Road, St. John’s Wood. What he didn’t discover was that she was lying.
Her real name was Louise Harris and she lived at 44 Townsend with a bus conductor called Charley. She was a cautious woman, streetwise and smarter than the usual dolly birds that Cream was used to. She had been around the block, in more ways than one. She was an intuitive person and while she didn’t know it, she sensed that something about her acquaintance was not quite right. They agreed to meet later on at 7:30 p.m. at Charing Cross. He said he would bring with him some pills to improve her complexion. They later met up as planned, had a drink and went back to the Embankment where he gave her two pills. She pretended to take them but actually threw them in the Thames.
Quite surprisingly, he then said he had to be at St. Thomas’ Hospital, left her, and gave her five shillings to go to the Oxford Music Hall. He promised to meet her at 11:00 p.m. She waited, but, he never came. But it was not the last time he would see of the street smart Miss Harvey.