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Visiting The Grave Of Sir Robert Anderson

Posted on February 14, 2019February 14, 2019 by Richard Jones

As the Assistant Commissioner and the head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Dr Robert Anderson (1841 – 1918) was the highest ranking police official with direct responsibility for the Jack the Ripper investigation, and this put him […]

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Crying False News

Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Richard Jones

It might seem that fake news is a modern phenomenon, but, in fact, it’s been around for a long, long time. One thing is certain about the Jack the Ripper murders – they most certainly sold newspapers. Indeed, […]

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The February 2019 Quiz

Posted on February 10, 2019February 5, 2019 by Richard Jones

Well, it’s February, it’s freezing cold, and it’s just the sort of weather to stay indoors and find ways of enjoying Victorian history without having to venture out into the winter. Enter, the February 2019 Jack the Ripper Quiz […]

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The London Police 1888

Posted on February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 by Richard Jones

By the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, the Metropolitan Police force, under the command of the Chief Commissioner, Sir Charles Warren, was coming under constant criticism in the newspapers. Several high profile cases – […]

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The Notting Hill Police Scandal

Posted on February 6, 2019February 6, 2019 by Richard Jones

In February, 1889, Thomas Murphy was sentenced to ten years penal servitude for feloniously wounding Police Constable Walter Whittimore (many newspaper reports spelt his name as Whittemore) in the course of a burglary in December, 1888. Constable Whittimore was […]

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Attempted Murder Of Constable Whittemore

Posted on February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 by Richard Jones

On 14th December, 1888, Police Constable Walter Whittimore (the early newspaper reports spell his name as Whittemore), of the Metropolitan Police’s X Division, was shot in the leg whilst trying to apprehend two burglars in the district of North […]

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The London Crimes

Posted on February 2, 2019September 3, 2018 by Richard Jones

Today, there is a general consensus – though, as with so many things relating to the Whitechapel murders, not a 100% certainty – that the Jack the Ripper atrocities ended with the murder of Mary Kelly, on the […]

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Drinking In The East End

Posted on January 31, 2019September 4, 2018 by Richard Jones

Drunkenness was a huge problem – not just in London but throughout the whole of the country – in the latter decades of the 19th century. However, thanks largely to the press coverage that tended to focus on […]

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The Agony Of Fear

Posted on January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 by Richard Jones

By the 10th of October, 1888, the Jack the Ripper crimes were being reported upon and pondered upon by newspapers across the country. From Land’s End to John O’Groats, journalists were pondering what sort of person could be […]

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Crime In London 1882

Posted on January 27, 2019January 27, 2019 by Richard Jones

Throughout the 1880’s, the belief was widespread that, when it came to tracing the perpetrators of murders in London, the detectives at Scotland Yard were, to put it mildly, lacking in success. SOLVING MURDER CASES In an article […]

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