Author: Richard Jones

By 1888, following a scandal in which several members of the Detective Department of Scotland Yard had been tried and found guilty of being in the pay of a gang of swindlers, the whole department had been reorganised […]

The Jack the Ripper murders, in a way, helped draw the nation’s attention to the condition of the poor and destitute in the East End of London. The fact that Jack the Ripper’s victims had all belonged to […]

The East London Observer, on Saturday, 24th February, 1866, published an article in which it described a visit that a reporter had paid to the Casual Ward at Whitechapel:- A VISIT TO THE WHITECHAPEL CASUAL WARD “Whitechapel is […]

In December, 1888, the East End of London was still on high alert, and man of the people were ready to react quickly to any suggestion that a stranger in their midst might well be the Whitechapel murderer. […]

Well, it is the last month of the year, and with it comes our final Jack the Ripper quiz of the year. And, what a year it’s been! But our cunning quizzes have appeared every month, no matter […]

The South Wales Daily News, on Friday 1st December, 1893, published the following article about a particularly unpleasant case that had been heard at the Police Court In Porth, in which a husband had used the infamy of […]

As the end of November, 1888, approached the consternation and panic in the streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields was reaching fever pitch, and numerous people were finding themselves in danger when they were mistaken for the perpetrator of […]

In late November, 1888, a very curious case was played out at Sheffield Police Court. It involved a lovelorn German nobleman and, in a roundabout way, featured the Whitechapel murderer, albeit, I have to confess that the link […]

Had you woken up in London on Sunday, 25th November, 1888, you could have been forgiven for thinking that danger lurked in every corner of the East End. An attack on a lady by the name of Annie […]

On Friday, 23rd November, 1888, the newspapers were filled with the latest updates and details on the Whitechapel atrocities, as well as with tales of how the crimes were impacting on society at large. The Stroud News and […]