Author: Richard Jones

On Saturday the 15th of August, 1846, the Lord Mayor was presiding over a session at the Mansion House Court, when a police inspector arrived to tell him that a woman by the name of Susan Tolleday, had […]

As regular readers of my true crime blogs will known, I am forever combing through the pages of 19th century newspapers in search of stories about murders and other crimes that took place in the Victorian metropolis. I […]

Murder was, and had been, a regular occurrence in London in London in general, and in Whitechapel in particular, in the decades preceding the Jack the Ripper atrocities. One of the most common forms of homicide was wives […]

Although the Jack the Ripper atrocities dominated the newspapers throughout late 1888 and early 1889, they were by no means the only murders that occurred during this period. Thew newspapers carried stories of numerous homicides that occurred over […]

Welcome to another Jack the Ripper Quiz. As per our usual quizzes, the September 2022 challenge consists of 10 questions pertaining to the Jack the Ripper crimes in particular or the Whitechapel murders in general. There are questions […]

As regular readers of my blogs will be aware, I am fascinated by accounts that appear in Victorian newspapers that provided with insights into the everyday lives of the ordinary people of the era. On a recent trawl […]

On Saturday August the 6th, 1927, a calamity struck one of the buildings on Cornhill in the City of London. The Western Daily Press, in its edition of Monday the 8th of August, 1927. provided the following account […]

I came across the following strange tale as I was perusing the Victorian newspaper archives. It appeared in The South Wales Echo on Thursday the 3rd of February, 1887:- AN EAST END MYSTERY Yesterday afternoon, at the Shoreditch […]

On Friday August the 31st, 1888, the body of a woman, showing signs of terrible mutilations, was discovered in a dark gateway in Buck’s Row, in Whitechapel. That evening, several newspapers, provided their readers with as much detail […]

Following the murder of Mary Nichols, which took place on the morning of Friday, August the 31st, 1888, taking a critical look at several newspapers began taking critical looks at the police efforts to identify the victim and […]