Overview
On the 8th of September 1888 Annie Chapman was murdered by Jack the Ripper. She was thought to have been Jack the Ripper’s second victim during the Autumn of Terror. Throughout the Autumn of Terror in the Autumn of 1888, at least five women were murdered by the notorious serial killer - Jack the Ripper. The Ripper’s first victim was thought to have been Mary Ann Nichols; Mary Ann Nichols was murdered in Bucks Row on the 31st of August 1888. Just one week later, Hanbury Street on the 8th of September 1888 became the scene of another murder in Whitechapel; the murder of Annie Chapman. The murderous event on Hanbury Street on the 8th of September 1888, resulted in the place being treated like an open morbid museum, as Hanbury Street on the 8th of September 1888 had crowds of people gathering (and even paying to see) Jack the Ripper’s latest victim, Annie Chapman. People paid to view Annie’s murdered corpse from the flats that towered above, which looked down on the yard where Annie’s body lay. The surprising thing about the Ripper’s chosen spot was in its layout - there was only one escape (the way that he and Annie must have entered the yard), which perhaps tells us something about the Ripper: it tells us that his killings were more opportunity, than careful planning, as had he had planned his killings he probably would have chosen somewhere where he could easily escape from. Though, perhaps he on, or near Hanbury Street which would have resulted in him perhaps knowing when people would be around. Annie Chapman’s Early Life Annie Chapman was born in September 1841 (though the exact date of her birth is unknown); she was born ‘Annie Eliza Smith’ though she was also known as ‘Dark Annie’ later in life. Annie had one brother and three sisters. Annie Chapman’s Marriage To John Chapman On the 1st of May 1869, Annie Chapman married John Chapman Brompton. Both of them lived in several places before moving to Windsor in 1881, where John Chapman took on the role of a domestic coachmen. Before breaking up, the couple had three children. Their marriage didn’t last long after moving to Windsor, as they broke-up in either 1884 or 1885. Their marriage seems to have broke down either because one, or both of their drinking habits - both Annie and John were heavy drinkers, which seemed to have played a role in both of them going their separate ways. Annie Chapman only moved to Whitechapel in 1886 - which was just two years before her murder. Annie Chapman In Whitechapel Annie Chapman moved into 30 Dorset Street in Spitalfields, Whitechapel in 1886. She moved there and was with a man known as John Sivvey. For the two years that Annie was separated from her husband, Annie received financial support from her husband. However, in 1886 that financial support stopped for Annie when her husband died. When she stopped receiving financial support, the man that she was living with - John Sivvey, left her. It’s possible that this is when she started prostitution. The Last Hours Of Annie Chapman and Her Murder Before Annie Chapman was murdered in Hanbury Street on the 8th of September 1888, she was seen a few times by different people. On the 7th of September, at 5pm, Annie spoke to Amelia Palmer in Dorset Street. Amelia Palmer had stated that Annie was ill, and that she was going out that night to earn money as she wouldn’t have any lodgings for that night - basically, if Annie hadn’t earned money that night, she wouldn’t have had anywhere to stay for the night. Just a few hours later, Annie returned to her lodgings at 11.30pm, where she was in and out of the lodging house until about 1.35am on the 8th of September. While going in and out of her lodging house during that time, she was seen by numerous people. Annie left her loding house for the last time, sometime just after 1.35am on the 8th of September, she had to go out onto the streets again to earn money as she did not have any money for a bed that night in her lodgings. Some of the last people known to have seen Annie Chapman alive before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper, was the nightwatchman of her lodgings, John Evans, and the deputy head of the lodgings house, Tim Donovan - who she had asked to keep a bed for her for the night, before she went out onto the streets of Whitechapel to meet her ill-fate. The last person thought to have seen Annie Chapman alive (just a few hours later), was Elizabeth Long, who had known Annie. Elizabeth Long said that she had seen Annie with a man at the front of 29 Hanbury Street at around 5.30am that morning. Not long after that, Annie Chapman was thought to have been murdered in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street. Annie’s body was found shortly after that, at 6am by John Davis who lived in 29 Hanbury Street. Annie Chapman became the second victim of Jack the Ripper’s.
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