"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
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