Author: Richard Jones

It is somewhat surprising, as you plough through the newspapers of the 1880’s and the 1890’s, to find just how often Jack the Ripper was linked to crimes – many of which bore none of his hallmarks. Indeed, as […]

On Wednesday the 2nd of October, 1889, Mrs Margaret Smith was attacked when she went out to use the communal ashpit, which was situated at the back of her dwelling in Brechin Road, Arbroath, in Scotland. An ashpit was […]

Despite the fact that, by October, 1889, almost a year had passed since the Whitechapel fiend had held the East End of London in a grip of terror and panic, Jack the Ripper was still cropping up in […]

On Sunday 30th September, 1888, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were murdered in Berner Street, Whitechapel and Mitre Square, in the City of London respectively, and the people of the East End faced up to the fact that, […]

The inquests into the deaths of the victims of Jack the Ripper were, to say the least, sensational affairs. Gruesome facts and startling revelations were eagerly devoured by the newspaper journalists and regurgitated for their readers’ eager consumption. […]

One of the major debates with regards solving the mystery of the Whitechapel murders, throughout September, 1888, was whether or not a reward should be offered for information that might lead to the apprehension of the perpetrator of […]

By the 23rd of September, 1888, it was becoming more than apparent that the police were no closer to catching the perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities than they had been the previous week. Several promising leads had simply […]

One of the intriguing things about the investigation into the Whitechapel murders, that was taking place throughout September, 1888, is the number of suspects that the police had in custody who were suspected of being the perpetrator of […]

By September, 1889, almost a year had passed since the Jack the Ripper murders had terrorised the people of the East End of London in particular, and the Victorian public at large. Yet, the hunt for the killer […]

One of the things that truly shocked the Victorian public at large about the Whitechapel Murders, in addition to their sheer horror of the mindless brutality of the terrible mutilations inflicted upon the bodies of the victims, was […]