Author: Richard Jones

On Wednesday, 14th October, 1868, forty-five year old James Howe either jumped or fell beneath a train at Edgware Road Station, and he later died from the injuries that he received. At the subsequent inquest into his death […]

Although the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes, and the appearance of the Jack the Ripper letter dominated the newspapers throughout the first two weeks of October, 1888, other murders also occurred throughout the country, some of […]

It is amazing how ubiquitous the name of Jack the Ripper became, and remained, in the years proceeding the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Indeed, for many years after the notorious East End murder spree, many individuals who looked […]

We tend to take it for granted that, once the Victorian police had made an arrest, and the culprit had been taken into custody and then processed through the court system, then that was that. Job done! However, […]

On Friday, 1st of December, 1882, Police Constable George Cole was shot at killed by a suspected burglar he had tried to arrest in Dalston. The Derby Daily Telegraph broke the news of the murder in its edition of […]

On Friday, 3rd October 1884, a commercial traveller by the name of Richard Dugdale went drinking with several men in Bolton. Later that night, his body was found on some waste land. The Manchester Evening News, broke the […]

IT’S TIME FOR THE OCTOBER QUIZ The nights are drawing in, the shadows a getting loner, we need something that will, hopefully, keep us well and truly occupied as the winter begins. And, right on cue, comes the […]

In the early hours of Sunday, 30th September, 1888, the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes occurred, and the people of the East End faced up to the alarming news that the East End Murderer had returned. […]

Life in Whitechapel in the late 19th century could be dangerous. All manner of nefarious and criminally inclined characters were out on the streets ready to assault, rob or even murder the unwary citizens who might just happen […]

The Tower Hamlets Independent and East End Local Advertiser, on Saturday, 9th May, 1896, broke the story of a series of atrocities that had been carried out in horses in stables in Spitalfields. Evidently, the newspaper had forgotten […]