Elizabeth Stride was the third victim of Jack the Ripper's. She was murdered on the night which is known as the'Double Event', on the 30th of September 1888. The Double Event was a night whenJack the Ripper murdered two women, the first woman murdered that night was Elizabeth Stride and the second woman murdered that night was Catherine Eddowes
Both women were murdered in the same hour. It is thought that Jack the Ripper was disturbed just after he murdered Elizabeth Stride and probably just before he was going to mutilate her. Because of this disruption, it is thought that Jack may have been unhappy and frustrated at not being able to finish off his 'work', in other words, he was probably unhappy that it couldn't mutilate Elizabeth Stride, in the same way, that he had mutilated poor Annie Chapman and Mary Ann Nichols just weeks beforehand. It was for this reason, that he probably risked murdering another woman that night - Catherine Eddowes. Unfortunately, Catherine Eddowes happened to be crossing paths with Jack the Ripper that September morning, in 1888. Something which sealed her fate; becoming the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper's. The Double Event not only saw Jack the Ripper murder two women, he seemed to have been out of control that night (more than usual). With the murder of Stride, the police were alerted to the killer being active in the area, when he went on to kills Eddowes, such a short time afterwards. He was clearly out of control that night. Not only that, he left the only piece of physical evidence behind that night - a piece of blood-stained cloth - which was probably used to wipe the blood of Catherine Eddowes off of him. Alongside a message, which was probably written by him that night, 'The Juwes are the men that shall not be named for nothing', it read on the wall, above where the piece of cloth was found on the ground. The cloth and writing on the wall are significant today because they remain the only traces of Jack the Ripper in the whole case. If Jack the Ripper was caught, instead of just evading capture after the murder of Elizabeth Stride, then these pieces of evidence wouldn't exist. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't retain the significance they do today. The Double Event was more eventful than any of the other night, had Louis Diemschutz entered Dutfield's Yard (where Elizabeth Stride was found) just a few minutes, or even seconds earlier than he did that night, on the 30th of September 1888, then Jack the Ripper probably would have been caught.
Who was Elizabeth Stride?
Elizabeth Stride was born on the 27th of November in 1843, in Gothenburg, Sweden, she was born to Gustaf Ericsson, who was her father, and Beatta Carlsdotter who was her mother. Elizabeth Stride lived some of her adult life in Sweden before moving to London, England. It is thought that Elizabeth first started prostitution while living in Sweden; she was registered as a prostitute by the Swedish police in March 1865. Stride then moved to London around a year later, on the 10th of July 1866. Much of what we know about Elizabeth Stride's early life, is thanks to a man called Charles Preston. Charles Preston knew Elizabeth Stride. He told the inquest of Stride's murder that she had come to England with another man and that she was born in Sweden. Preston was living in the same lodging house as Stride and identified her body at the mortuary after she was murder by Jack the Ripper. Life In London And Marriage A few years after settling in London, Elizabeth Stride married John Thomas Stride, on the 7th of March 1869. The pair married in St Giles, by Rev William Powell and witnesses by N. Taylor Stride and Daniel H Wyatt; at the registration of the marriage, Elizabeth Stride gave her address as 67 Gower Street. The marriage between them lasted around seven years. During their marriage, they owned a coffee shop in Poplar, which was a district in East London. Owning a coffee shop suggests that the couple was well off, perhaps middle-class at the time of owning the coffee shop, However, they lost their coffee shop in 1875, when it was taken over by John Dale. Elizabeth Stride's life started on a downwards spiral on separating from her husband. It's unclear exactly when Elizabeth and her husband separated. But her husband died on the 24th of October 1884, due to heart disease - which would have meant that by the time of the Autumn of Terror, she would have been without a husband supporting her. And therefore, most likely to have been in the same position that she was in during the time of the Ripper murders. The marriage between them seems to have fallen apart sometime between 1875 and 1881. From the 28th of December 1881 to the 4th of January 1882, Elizabeth was ill with bronchitis and treated at the Whitechapel Infirmary. When released from the Whitechapel Infirmary, Stride moved into the Whitechapel Workhouse. She didn't stay in Whitechapel Infirmary for long. Throughout 1882, Elizabeth Stride was a resident of the lodging house of 32 Flower and Dean Street, though, she was an in-out resident of the lodging of 32 Flower and Dean Street.
Life In Whitechapel: Stride's Last Years
In 1885 Elizabeth Stride started a relationship with Michael Kidney; she started living with Michael Kidney in 1885. It seems that to be that he was absent for most of their relationship. Stride and Kidney lived at 35 Devonshire Street during this time. Stride and Kidney were said to have had a turbulent relationship, one was Elizabeth Stride was a heavy drinker, like previous Jack the Ripper victims before her, Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman, who were also heavy drinkers. It's possible that Elizabeth Stride's heavy drinking contributed to her turbulent relationship with Kidney. Elizabeth's heavy drinking probably was partly the reason why her relationship with kidney seemed to be turbulent, the other part was the behaviour of Kidney himself. Kidney was up for charges in April of 1887 at Thames Magistrate Court, on charges of assaulting Elizabeth. Elizabeth did not attend the court hearing. The following year, over a year later, on the 30th of September 1888, Elizabeth Stride was murdered by Jack the Ripper. Elizabeth Stride, the 30th of September 1888
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