oElizabeth Stride was the third woman murdered by the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. On the 30th of September, 1888. In this blog post, we will long at the final hours of Elizabeth Stride. And her murder.
On the night and early morning of Elizabeth Stride's last hours she was out working in the street. Elizabeth Stride's appearance was that she was wearing; a black jacket, a black skirt, and a black bonnet. Around 11pm on the night of the 29th of September, Elizabeth Stride was seen with a short man with a mustache and sandy coloured eyelashes. Stride was seen by two laborers, J. Best and John Gardner. The man that stride was talking to also wore a morning suit, coat, and billycock hat. Best stated: "They had been served in the public house and went out when me and my friends came in. It was raining very fast and they did not appear willing to go out. He was hugging and kissing her, and as he seemed a respectably dressed man, we were rather astonished at the way he was going on at the woman." The two men, Best and Gardner tried to get the man to go into the pub to have a drink with them. He refused. After that, the men jokingly said to Stride that ''That's Leather Apron getting around you..'' Leather Apron was a name used by The Star newspaper at the time of the Whitechapel Murders refered to Jack the Ripper as Leather Apron.
After than man had jokingly said to Stride that that was the ripper around her, Stride and the man went off in the direction of Commercial Road and Berner Street.
On the surface, it is easy to assume the man that Stride was talking to, was Jack the Ripper. This is because Stride was found dead two hours later, on the morning of the 30th of September, at 1am. However, on further inspection, it seems unlikely that the man Stride was seen with outside Bricklayers Arms pub at 11pm on the 29th of September, was Jack the Ripper. We know Jack was elusive, and was good at avoiding detection. It seems unlikely that he would put himself in such a public position with a victim that he would murder two hours, an hour and a half later. Because, he would have been making himself a prime suspect being seen with her, shortly before her murder. For this reason, the man that Stride was talking to outside the pub was most likely just a customer.
The last time anyone saw Elizabeth Stride was at 11.45pm on the 29th of September. She was seen by a laborer called William Marshall, on Berner Street. He sees her talking to a man who is wearing a sailors hat, and a short black coat.
It has also been claimed that Stride was seen talking to a man at 12.35am on the 30th of September, in the book, The complete history of Jack the Ripper. However, the evidence is controversial, and some dismiss it, due the 'unreliable' sources. You can make your mind up by reading the book itself, which you can find on Amazon. It is estimated that Elizabeth Stride was murdered somewhere between 12.30am and 12.55am, if Sugden is right about Stride talking to a man at 12.3am that morning, then there is a strong possibility that this man could have been Jack the Ripper. At 1am, a man called Louis Diemschunts, a steward of the Workmans Club, was making his way into Dutfields Yard. However, his horse stopped the cart, and refused to go any further at the entrance to the yard. Too dark to see anything, Louis jumped down off the horse and cart and went to inspect why the horse had stopped. He was unable to see Stride's body until he lit a match.
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Jeffrey Beineman
23/12/2022 18:26:26
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