Author: Richard Jones

When studying crime in Victorian London at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders, the London police courts, and the newspaper reports on the proceedings in them, are an invaluable historical resource. But, what exactly were the […]

By April, 1895, it was more than apparent that the Jack the Ripper atrocities had ceased in the East End of London. Of course, the question that everyone wanted to be answered was, what had actually become of […]

Although the Jack the Ripper murders are almost the only homicides that are associated with the year 1888, there were, of course, many other murders that took place in 1888, albeit many of them didn’t attract the widespread […]

Joseph Merrick (1862 – 1890) – also known as “The Elephant Man” on account of his deformities, died at the London Hospital on Whitechapel Road on Friday the 11th of April, 1890. The Dundee Evening Telegraph announced his […]

On the evening of 11th April, 1881 Mrs Ann Reville, the wife of the local butcher, was found murdered in their home, which was located at the back of their shop in Slough. The Witney Express and Oxfordshire […]

The streets of Whitechapel in the 19th century were, to say the least, extremely dangerous. Robberies and assaults were commonplace, even in broad daylight. Murder itself was quite common, long before the advent of the Jack the Ripper […]

Over the Easter weekend, 1891, news was breaking in the papers that a murder had taken place at a house in Matlock Bank, Derbyshire. John Marius Wilson’s 1870 – 1872 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales provided the […]

These are difficult times for all of us. Here at the Jack the Ripper tour we have ceased operating our nightly walk for the foreseeable future until we are over this troubling time. However, that doesn’t mean we’re […]

On Saturday, 4th April, 1903, Mdlle. Ida Fridauer boarded a train with the intention of travelling home to  St. Cloud. However, as the following article in The Belfast Newsletter,  of Tuesday, 7th April, 1903, reveals things didn’t go […]

Inspector Robert Sagar was a City of London Police officer who, having started off as a medical student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, decided to become a detective. Following the murder of Catherine Eddowes, on the 30th September, 1888, […]