On the night that Polly Nichols (Mary Ann-Nichols) was murdered,two fires broke out at the London Docks, on the night of the 30th of August, 1888. The fire at the London Docks on the the night that Polly Nichols was murdered, broke out at around 8.45PM. They burned well into the night. And into the early morning hours of the 31st of August, 1888. The local fire brigade at Whitechapel Station was alerted to the fire at the Whitechapel Docks soon after the fire burst out. Every fire engine in the district was sent to deal with the flames that night. The fire broke out in a very dangerous part of the London Docks. This is because it was an area in the South Quay Warehouses. This warehouse was really the worst place a fire could start out in the docks, as it stored gin and brandy. The alcoholic spirits made the flames much worse, and intensified the fire. By 10.30PM that night, the fire was raging out of control. An enormous crowd had gathered to watch the fire. By 11PM that night, the fire started to diminish. By this time, the fire was raging for over two hours. The roof had been completely burned away. At midnight, the fire service was still trying to put out the flames of the London Dock fires.
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Mary Kelly was the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper. As we observe the Jack the Ripper murders, we notice that with every murder, he gets more gruesome.
As we can see from the Mary Kelly death photo above, she was butchered by Jack the Ripper in such a horrible way. By far, Kelly was the most mutilated body of the five women. What did Jack the Ripper do to Mary Kelly? The ripper must have stripped her, as she was found completely naked, when her dead body was discovered. Jack completely mutated her body. Took out her complete abdomen, sliced off her breasts and face. Her liver was taken out of her body, and placed at her feet. Her intestines were taken out and placed at the side of her body. Her heart was absent from her body.
Because of the brutal nature of Kelly's murder, some claim that her murder wasJack the Rippers ultimate fantasy. And, that's why he stopped.
Of course, that is hypothetical. As is the other suggestions as to why Jack the Ripper stopped killing. Was he murdered himself? Did he die? Commit suicide? Was he sent to a mental institution? Did he just stop, because he was satisfied? It's impossible for us to know why Jack the Ripper stopped after the 9th of November, 1888, after Kelly was murdered. The last time that Mary Kelly was seen alive was at 2am, on the 9th of November, by George Hutchinson. At 4am one of kelly's neighbours Elizabeth Prater. Who heard a cry of ''Oh murder!'', which was a common expression to hear at the time. It is thought that Mary Kelly's body was found dead at 8.30am that morning, by a woman called Caroline Maxwell.
Catherine Eddowes was the forth woman murdered by Jack the Ripper, on the early hours of the morning of the 30th of September, 1888. She was murdered on the night we now call 'The Double Event.'
The Double Event was when Jack the Ripper murdered two women. The first woman that he murdered that night was Elizabeth Stride, the second woman that he murdered was Catherine Eddowes.
The last hours of Catherine Eddowes life were very colourful. On the final night when Catherine Eddowes was alive, she wasarrested for being drunken and disorderly .
At 8pm on the 29th of September, Catherine Eddowes was found lying drunk on Aldgate High Street, by police constable John Robinson. Robinson at this point took her to the local police station, at Bishopsgate. Robinson detained her for her own good, until she sobered up.
At 1am the following morning, on the 30th of September, Catherine Eddowes had sobered up. And was ready to be released from jail.
While Eddowes was leaving the police station that morning, instead of turning right to take the shortest route to her home, she took a left turn. The last time the Catherine Eddowes was seen alive was at 1.35am, by a witness called Joseph Lawende, and two other men called, Harry Harris and Joseph Levy. The three men were just leaving a club inDuke Street , when they saw Eddowes. She was seen by the men talking to a man at the entrance to Church Passage. The passage led from Duke Street, into Mitre Square. It was in Mitre Square that Catherine Eddowes dead body would later be found, just minutes afterwords. Between 1.35am and 1.45am. It seems more likely that she was murdered sometime between 1.40am and 1.45am, if she was seen by these three men at 1.35am. What is strange is that when PC Edward Watkins arrived at Mitre Square, on his nightly patrol on that night, did not see Catherine Eddowes body there. Some have speculated that with Watkins patrolling the square frequently, and with a heavy police presence in the area, that there was a police cover-up over the identity over Jack the Ripper. Others say that it was too dark for Watkins to see the body the first time around. If so, how did he see it the second time? It's up to you to examine the historical evidence, and make up your own mind about the events of Mitre Square that night.
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.
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.
Mary Kelly is thought to have been the last of Jack the Ripper's victims. What is interesting about Mary Kelly, is that she is different from the previous victims.
One of the main differences is the appearance of Mary Kelly. A notable appearance is that she was taller that the other victims, at 5'7. Another interesting difference is that Mary Kelly was about twice as young as the others, at only 25 years old. She wasn't middle aged like Jack the Ripper's other victims.
Mary Kelly was also different in appearance from the other women in another way. She was pale in complexion. And unlike the other women that Jack the Ripper killed, Mary Kelly had blonde hair. Her eye colour was also different, she had blue eyes.
As Kelly was much younger than the other women, she doesn't have much of a biography to go on. As she was too young.
We do not know much about Kelly's life. As there is little to no information about her life. It is thought that she was born in Limerick, Ireland. As a young child, her family moved to Wales. At the age of 16, in 1879, Mary Kelly married. She only arrived in London four years before her murder, in 1888. Mary Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper on the 9th of November, 1888. At some point during the early morning hours. Her body was discovered at 10.45am.
Catherine Eddowes was Jack the Ripper's forth victim. Catherine Eddowes was murdered by Jack the Ripper on the night of the Double Event .
The night of the Double Event was when Jack the Ripper murdered two woman. Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride. On the 30th of September, 1888.
Her is a short biography of Catherine Eddowes. The life that she lived, before she was murdered. She was born in Wolverhampton, England. Her date of birth is the 14th of April, 1842. Catherine Eddowes parents were George Eddowes and Catherine Eddowes. Eddowes had ten other siblings. Catherine Eddowes appearance was similar to that of the other prostitutes that Jack the Ripper had killed. She was dark auburn haired. And was middle-aged, 46 at the time of her death. And was also small, just five feet. Eddowes had a small family for the time. She had one daughter, and two sons. Catherine Eddowes had two partners that we know about. The first partner she was with was a man named Thomas Conway. It was Conway Catherine had her three children to. However, Catherine left her partner in 1880 and her children. And she moved to London. The following year, in 1881, Catherine Eddowes was living with her new partner, John Kelly. It is at this point that Catherine Eddowes took on the occupation of prostitution. Beforehand, her occupation had been a hot picker. Catherine like Jack's other victims had a drinking problem. The night before her death, at 8.30pm on the 29th of September, 1888. She was arrested then for being drunk and disorderly. And was given time in a cell to sober up. At 12.15am, on the 30th of September, 1888, Catherine had been heard singing in her cell, she had woken up. Some 40 minutes later, at 12.55am, she was let go by police officers. Just over a half-an-hour later, at 1.35am, Catherine had been murdered at Mitre Square
Elizabeth Stride was Jack the Ripper's third victim. She was murdered by Jack the Ripper on the 30th of September, 1888.
Stride was murdered on the night which is know as the 'Double Event'. The Double Event was when Jack the Ripper murdered two of his victims on the 30th of September, 1888. The Elizabeth Stride murder location was just off Berner Street, in the Whitechapel District. At least, that's is where Elizabeth Stride's body was discovered, on Berner Street. It is thought that Jack the Ripper was disturbed just after he killed Elizabeth Stride. Elizabeth Stride was killed by having her throat cut by the ripper. She was discovered just minutes after she was murdered, by a man named, Louis Diemschutz.
Elizabeth Stride's date of birth was the 27th of November, 1843. She was born in Sweeden. And moved to London in 1864.
She was described as a ''quiet woman'', who would help other people, according to her lodgers. While Elizabeth Stride was alive, she was an occasional prostitute, she also made money as a sewer and threw charring. At the time of her death, stride was 45 years old. She was middle-aged, like most of Jack the Ripper's victims. This is the appearance of Elizabeth Stride: . She was small, 5'2 . She had dark hair . Both of her front teeth were missing . Grey eyes . Pale complexion Elizabeth Stride was found dead at around 1am on the 30th of September, 1888.
Annie Chapman was the second woman murdered by Jack the Ripper. She was born sometime in 1841. And was murdered by Jack the Ripper on the 8th of September, 1888.
Annie Chapman had several occupations, one of them was a prostitute. But. She also worked as a; florist, and crocheter. Her mother was called Ruth Chapman. And her father was called George Smith. He was a 2nd Battalion of Lifeguards. Annie Chapman's parents were married six months after she was born, on the 22nd of February, 1842. Annie had four siblings. She had one brother named George. And three sisters called; Georgina, Mirium and Emily. It is thought that Annie did not get on with her sisters.
There are some stand out features of Annie Chapman. She is noted to have a drink problem, however, she was not an alcoholic . She was under-nourished at the time of her death. Annie Chapman had a chronic disease of the lungs, and is thought to have been dying.
Annie Chapman had married one of her relatives, John Chapman. They were married on the 1st of May, 1869. They had three children together; John, Annie and Emily. Annie Chapman had only moved to Whitechapel two years before her death, in 1886. She and her husband had separated. Annie lived off an allowance of 10 shillings after her separation from her husband. However, after 1886, Annie stopped receiving these payments from her husband.
By the time of 1888, Annie Chapman was living in house lodgings, with a man called Edward Stanley. Her friends said that she became depressed after her divorce, and seemed to give up on life.
Annie was murdered in the early hours of the 8th of September, 1888. At around 1.45am. |
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