Author: Richard Jones

Although the Jack the Ripper murders were, most certainly, the most reported on series of homicides in the 1880s, there were many other murders, and attempts at murder, in the East End of London, many of them connected […]

In September, 1889, the finding of the torso of an unknown woman under a railway arch in Pichin Street, East London, led to a revival of interests in the Jack the Ripper murders, and the awful prospect that […]

On the morning of Saturday, 15th of December, 1900, the body of Mrs. Lucy Smith was found in her house at 23, Venour Road, in Bow, East London. As it transpired, the police did not have to look […]

On Saturday the 20th September, 1890, The Illustrated Police News, published an article which demonstrates some of the dangers that the Victorian Police encountered on the streets of the 19th-century metropolis:- PULLING A POLICEMAN’S NOSE A stylishly woman, […]

That they were arrested on suspicion of being the Whitechapel murderer, appears to have been a tale that several visitors to London liked to tell the folks back home when they returned from a visit to London around […]

Although it was the Whitechapel murders in the East End of London that dominated the newspapers throughout September, 1888, they were not the only crimes that the people of Victorian Britain had to face up to. Indeed, on […]

An intriguing case was heard at the North London Police Court on Thursday, 13th September, 1894. The Western Daily Express published a full account of the court proceedings in its edition of the next day:- CHARGE OF PERSONATING […]

Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, on Sunday, 21st October, 1888, carried the following story, which demonstrates just how lightly domestic violence was taken by some Police Courts at the time of the Jack the Ripper atrocities, even when that violence […]

On 10th September, 1889, Police Constable Pennett discovered the torso of an unknown woman under a railway arch in Pinchin Street, East London, located just a stone’s throw away from Berner Street, where the body of Jack the […]

It is interesting to read the reports from the various Coroners Courts around London, as they provide a great deal of information about not only how Londoners lived in the 19th century, but also about how a large […]