Author: Richard Jones

The Jack the Ripper crimes attracted the attention of all sorts of people who showed a marked determination to either venture out onto the streets of the East End, in the forlorn hope of tracking down the perpetrator […]

As the Whitechapel murders began to attract more and more press attention in the wake of the murder of Annie Chapman – which took place in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields on the 8th of September, 1888 – more and […]

Today, I thought I’d take a break from things to do with Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders, and take a look at other scary stories that appeared in the Victorian newspapers in the late 1880’s. Ghost […]

In November, 1888, with the horrors of the Whitechapel murders being reported almost daily in the newspapers, and many of the press reports being couched in a distinctly Gothic horror format, John Francis Brewer spotted the opportunity afforded […]

June, 1889, began with newspaper reports that Jack the Ripper had, once again, managed to evade capture by detectives, this time in New York. The Burnley Express was one of several newspapers that carried a report on the […]

In the weeks that followed the murder of Mary Kelly – which took place in Miller’s Court, off Dorset Street, on 9th November 1888 – people in the East End of London were on high alert for any […]

An intriguing aspect of the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders is just how many “outside influences” were brought to bear on the police who were tasked with the thankless job of trying to hunt down the […]

Wynne Edwin Baxter  (1844 – 1920)  was the East London Coroner who presided over the inquests into the deaths of the majority of the victims of Jack the Ripper. He served as Coroner for almost forty years, presiding over […]

Invoking the old saying, “set a thief to catch a thief”, The Dundee Courier, on Saturday, 18th April, 1891, published an interview with a reformed criminal by the name of Ned Wright, who was involved in a noble attempt […]

In September, 1889, the discovery of a female torso, beneath a railway arch in Pinching Street, Whitechapel, led to speculation that Jack the Ripper had returned to the area and had resumed his murderous activities. RENEWED PRESS SPECULATION […]