Author: Richard Jones

When the people of East London returned to bed on the evening of Friday 7th September, 1888, the thoughts of many of them would have been concerned with the unknown miscreant – whom the gentlemen of the press […]

On Friday 7th September, 1888, several newspapers reported on the fact that the funeral of the Buck’s Row victim, Mary Nichols, had taken place the previous afternoon, and had been surrounded by a great deal of secrecy. One […]

Although the main London crime story being covered in the press during the first week of September, 1888, was the murder of Mary Nichols – who is generally regarded as being the first victim of Jack the Ripper […]

By Wednesday 5th September, 1888, the newspapers were still publishing information concerning the recent spate of murders that had taken place in Whitechapel between April and August; albeit, given the fact that little new information had come to […]

By the 4th of September 1888, the newspapers were reporting extensively on the proceedings at the inquest into the death of Mary Nichols, whose body had been discovered in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, in the early hours of August […]

By Monday 3rd September, 1888, people had had the entire weekend to come to terms with the horror that was being generally felt over the recent spate of terrible murders in Whitechapel. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT The weekend […]

Since the 2nd of September fell on a Sunday in 1888, only a handful of newspapers hit the newsstands to report on the latest revelations concerning the murder of Mary Nichols, whose body had been found in Buck’s […]

On Saturday the 1st of September, 1888, the newspapers were beginning to publish more details on the brutal murder that had taken place in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, in the early hours of Friday 31st August 1888. FACTS ABOUT […]

The inquest into the shocking murder of Martha Tabram had ended on the 24th of August, 1888, and everyday life for the people of the East End had begun returning to normal, when, in the early hours of […]

One of the most intriguing aspects of reading the press accounts of the Jack the Ripper murders, is the insight they provide into the area in which the crimes occurred and the reactions to the atrocities of the […]