Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Clues for Jack the Ripper's murders

Clues 


"Dear Boss" Letter 
Dated 25th September 1888 and received by the Central News agency on the 27th September 1888 and passed into the police. Read:
"That joke about the Leather Apron gave me Real Fits" 
"I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them til I get buckled" 
Was signed
"Jack the Ripper" 






Saucy Jack Postcard 


Used same red ink and appeared to have the same handwriting as the "Dear Boss" letter. It was dated  1st October and received the same day by the Central News Agency

The writer called himself "Saucy Jack" and spoke of the "double event" in reference to the murder of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddows both murdered on the same day

From Hell Letter 
Recieved by George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel vigilance committe on October 16 1888. Handwriting and style was unlike thar of the Dear Boss letter and Saucy Jack Postcard. The letter came in a small box containing half a Kidney (which was confirmed to be a females's who was about 45 years of age who suffered from Bright's disease- which is caused by the failing of the kidney's caused by heavy drinking. This could argubaly match the missing kidney of Catherine Eddows who was 46 and a heavy drinker) which was preserved in the "spirits of wine"

"I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise"
Also signed
"Jack the Ripper" 
Clothes
A part of Eddow's blooded apron was found about a quarter of a mile away from the entrance to a tenement building  in Goulston street under graffiti that read
"The Juwes are not the men to be blamed for nothing" 
Although Graffiti was common

Witnesses to Jack the Ripper's murders

Witnesses 

  • Mitre Square (where Catherine Eddows was found) would have been passed every 15 minuets by a police constable on his beat 
  • Local man Joseph Lawende had passed through Mitre Sqaure shortly before the murder on the 30th September and he described seeing a fair haired man with a shabby appearance with a woman who might have been Catherine Eddows 
  • Witnesses reported seeing Annie Chapman (second murder 8th September 1888) at about 5:30am (half an hour before she was found dead) with a dark haired with a shabby appearance 

Suspects for Jack the Ripper

Suspects
  • Butchers
  • Slaughterers 
  • Surgeon 
  • Physicians 
↑↑ All Suspected because of the manner of mutilation of the murders ↑↑
  • Queen Victoria's Grandson, Prince Albery Victor (Duke of Clarence). Although insubstantial evidence 
  • Kosminiski, a poor polish Jewish Resident in Whitechapel 
  • Montague John Druitt, a 31 year old barrister and school teacher who committed suicide December 1888 
  • "Leather Apron" aka John Pizer who was briefly suspected at the time of Annie Chapman 
  • Dr Francis J. Tumolety, a 56 year old American Quaker Doctor who was arrested November 1888 for Gross indecency 
  • Michaelostrong- a Russian born multi-pseudo thief and confidence tricker believed to be 55 years old in 1888 and detained in asylums on several occasions 

Victims of Jack the Ripper- Mary Kelly

Name: Mary Kelly
Age: 24
Place/Date/Time: Found 10:45am Friday 9th November laying in a single room where she lived at 13 Miller Court
Injuries: Throat had been severed down the spine, the abdomen was emptied of it's organs. Her heart was missing. 

Victims of Jack the Ripper- Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddows


Name: Elizabeth Stride 
Age: 45
Place/Date/Time: Sunday 30th September 1888 as around 1am in Dutfield's Yard off Berner Street
Injuries: The main artery of the left side of the neck had been severed. Some suggest that the killing was perhaps interrupted as there were no mutilations 


Name: Catherine Eddowes
Age: Mid-Fouries
Place/Date/Time: Mitre sqaure in Londonn 45 minuets after Stride. 
Injuries: Throat was severed and the abdomen ripped. The left kidney and most of the uterus had been removed. Her face was mutilated

Victims of Jack the Ripper- Annie Chapman


Name: Annie Chapman 
Age: 47
Place/Date/Time: Found in a yard off Hanbury Street 6am on Saturday 8th September 1888
Injuries: Throat cut following strangulation. Some intestines pulled from body

Victims of Jack the Ripper- Mary Nichols

Name: Mary Nichols
Age: 42
Place/Date/Time: Found 3:40am on Friday 31st August 1888
Injuries: Throat severed by two cuts and abdomen had been cut open

Clues for Jack the Ripper's murders

Clues  "Dear Boss" Letter  Dated 25th September 1888 and received by the Central News agency on the 27th September 1888 and ...