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 […]
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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 […]
Read ArticleOn 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 […]
Read ArticleBy early October, 1888, with newspapers more and more eager to publish any stories that they could on the latest atrocities by the killer who was now becoming universally known as “Jack the Ripper”, there were numerous reports […]
Read ArticleBy the 19th of November, 1888, it was becoming more than apparent that the police were no nearer catching the perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities than they had been prior to the murder of Mary Nichols. And yet, […]
Read ArticleThe Whitechapel murders, although specific to the East End of London impacted on the country as a whole. Newspaper readers across the land could not get enough of reports on the case, and editors were more than happy […]
Read ArticleOn the 4th of October, 1888, Mr. A. Eubule-Evans had written to the London Evening Standard to offer advice to the police on how they might best catch the man who had carried out the murders of Elizabeth […]
Read ArticleBy the 13th of November, 1888, the full sorrow of what had occurred in Miller’s Court on the 9th of November had spread throughout the country, and newspaper, as well as trying to convey the sheer brutality f […]
Read ArticleThe Sydney Evening News, on Saturday, 19th March, 1904, published an interview with a man who it described as, “the worst man in London” and, fittingly, the location chosen for the conducting of the interview was a tavern […]
Read ArticleOn the morning of Friday, 9th November, 1888, the horrifically mutilated body of Mary Kelly was found in her room in Miller’s Court, of Dorset Street, in Spitalfields. However, since the body was not discovered until 10.45am, the […]
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