Annie Chapman was the second woman to be murdered by the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper. In this blog, we are going to look at the final hours of Annie Chapman. And, the murder of Annie Chapman.
In the final hours of the morning, Annie Chapman was in her lodgings . She was seen at 1.45am on September 8th, 1888, by her lodgings deputy manager, Tim Donovan and the watchman John Evans.
Annie Chapman found herself outside walking the Whitechapel streets that early morning. We don't know anything about what happened to Annie between the hours of 1.45am to 5.30am that morning. She was prostituting herself, however, we don't really know any details about where she went, or who she was with.
The next time that anyone sees Annie Chapman is at 5.30am on the 8th of September, 1888. She is seen by a woman called Mrs Elizabeth Long, on Hanbury Street.
Mrs Long was walking down Hanbury Street when she seen Annie Chapman talking to a man. Long's description of the man was one who was; shabby-genteel. a bit taller than Chapman, dark hair, with a deer stalker hat, and someone who was over 40 years of age. As Elizabeth Long walked past the two, she heard a snippet of their conversation. It went like this: The man: ''Will you.'' Annie replied: ''Yes.'' There isn't really much we can deduce from this conversation. Although, it seems likely, and perhaps obvious, that he was asking Chapman for sex. We don't know who this man is. However, there is a strong possibility that he was Jack the Ripper. This is because Chapman's body was found just a forty minutes later, at 6.10am. Either the man who Annie was talking to was Jack the Ripper, or she met Jack not long after she finished talking to the man. At 6.10am that morning, her body was found by two men. James Green and James Kent. They were called upon by their fellow worker, John Davis, who said: ''Men! Come here! Here's a sight. A woman must have been murdered!'' he shouted to Green and Kent. A short time after Annie's body was discovered, Dr Phillips arrived to examine the body. He estimated that the time of her murder was 4.30am, an hour before she was supposedly seen talking to that man, according to misses long. If Phillip's was correct, and Annie was murdered at 4.30am, then Mrs Long was wrong about seeing Annie with the man at 5.30am. It couldn't have been Annie. So the witness would have be wrong. Or, Mrs Long was being intentionally deceitful about seeing Annie. If so, why? There is another option. And that is, it was 5.15am that Long saw Annie and the man talking, meaning that she heard the town clock strike 5.15am, not 5.30am. Another strange thing that contradicts Mrs Long's story is Albert Cadosch. Albert Cadosch heard something fall against his backyard fence at 5.25am. Where Chapman's body was later found that morning. Therefore, if Cadosch was right, then Mrs Long couldn't have been right. The information that we know doesn't make sense. The timing isn't right. Either, one of them were wrong through either misinterpretation of events, or, being willfully deceitful. If Dr Phillips is right, and Chapman died at 4.30am. Then both Cadosch and Long were both wrong. Either by accident, or through willful deceit. The situation surrounding Chapman's death is puzzling, and doesn't make sense.
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