For three months in 1888, fear and panic stalked the streets of London’s East End, and during these months five women were murdered and horribly mutilated by a man who become knwon as “Jack the Ripper”, though, some people believe the true number to have been eleven.
Whitechapel, in the East End was like a festering sore on the face of Victorian London in the late 19th century. The overcrowd population lived in hovels, the streets stank of filth and refuse, and the only way to earn a living was by criminal means, and for many women, prostitution; and the only way to get a bit of relief from this miserable life was a bottle of gin bought for a few pence.
The terror started on Friday 31st August, when the bodey of Mary Ann Nicholls, aged 42, was found in …show more content…
This second victim seemed to have been found in worse conditions than the first one.
On 28th September, the Central News Agency received a letter signed “Jack the Ripper”, threatening more murders. Whitechapel was now in uproar –riots broke out as hysterical crowds attacked anyone carrying a black bag and knives in such a bag.
On 30th September was a grim day. The Ripper carried out two murders within minutes each other. This time, the victims were Elizabeth Strade, who was found firstly, and Catherine Eddowes, aged 43, they both in similar conditions to those of Annie Chapman.
A trail of blood led the Police to a doorway nearby where a message had been chalked. It read, “the Jewes are not the men to be blamed for nothing”. For some inexplicable reason, the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Charles Warren, ordered it to be rubbed out”. So what could have been a valuable clue was destroyed.
The horror of the double murder gripped London, and rumours began to circulate, for some, the Ripper was a lunatic Polish, and for others a Russian Czarist, and even an insane
Whitechapel, in the East End was like a festering sore on the face of Victorian London in the late 19th century. The overcrowd population lived in hovels, the streets stank of filth and refuse, and the only way to earn a living was by criminal means, and for many women, prostitution; and the only way to get a bit of relief from this miserable life was a bottle of gin bought for a few pence.
The terror started on Friday 31st August, when the bodey of Mary Ann Nicholls, aged 42, was found in …show more content…
This second victim seemed to have been found in worse conditions than the first one.
On 28th September, the Central News Agency received a letter signed “Jack the Ripper”, threatening more murders. Whitechapel was now in uproar –riots broke out as hysterical crowds attacked anyone carrying a black bag and knives in such a bag.
On 30th September was a grim day. The Ripper carried out two murders within minutes each other. This time, the victims were Elizabeth Strade, who was found firstly, and Catherine Eddowes, aged 43, they both in similar conditions to those of Annie Chapman.
A trail of blood led the Police to a doorway nearby where a message had been chalked. It read, “the Jewes are not the men to be blamed for nothing”. For some inexplicable reason, the head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Charles Warren, ordered it to be rubbed out”. So what could have been a valuable clue was destroyed.
The horror of the double murder gripped London, and rumours began to circulate, for some, the Ripper was a lunatic Polish, and for others a Russian Czarist, and even an insane