101 Amazing Facts about Jack the Ripper by Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Author:Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Serial killer, jack, from hell, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly, Lewis Carroll, London, murder, Victorian, scary, tour, police, Scotland yard, metropolitan, arrest, suspect, solved, case, unsolved, royal
ISBN: 9781783336838
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Interesting Facts

There is no waxwork of Jack the Ripper in London’s Madame Tussauds, as the museum has a policy of not having models of figures of whom we do not know the true depiction. Jack is represented therefore by a shadow.

In a poll by BBC’s History Magazine, Jack was voted the worst Briton of all time.

The rumour that Jack the Ripper was left-handed was started by a speculative comment by Dr Henry Llewllyn, the surgeon who had attended the scene of the first murder. However, he later cast doubt on his own though but the belief had already cemented itself in the public consciousness.

When the first murder was reported, rumours circulated that it had been committed by a man called ‘leather apron’, which was sadly an invention of the media, using Jewish stereotypes at the time (there were racial tensions due to immigration from a number of ethnic groups in London at the time). A local Polish Jew called John Pizer was also known as ‘Leather Apron’ (relating to his trade of making leather footwear) and was arrested at the time despite there being absolutely no evidence against him. After being released when his alibis were confirmed, he successfully sued a newspaper who had named him as the murderer.

The acting commissioner of the City Police was a man called Major Henry Smith. Twenty years after the events, he published a memoir however it is well-known for having been embellished for dramatic effect. One particular comment he made in his book was that medical students polished farthings to look like sovereigns (coins of a higher value); as at the inquest of Annie Chapman it was mentioned that two farthings had been found on her body, Smith suggested the culprit must therefore have been a medical student. Ignoring the huge gaps in the logic, the price of a prostitute in the east end of London was a great deal less than one sovereign so his theory, deduction and its importance to the case do not ring true.

In the early hours of September 30 th 1888 Jack unusually committed two murders within the space of an hour - known as the double event. The two women whose lives were brutally taken were Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. Some would say Jack was clever in that if he committed these two murders he did so within two different boroughs; meaning the case now fell under two different police jurisdictions; City Police and the Metropolitan. This caused quite a stir given that until now the Metropolitan Police had had full control.

That same morning, Police in Whitechapel came across a bloodied strip of clothing, belonging to the apron Catherine Eddowes (The second victim in the double event) had been wearing but they also found some chalk writing on a wall. No one is certain of the exact words as Commissioner Sir Charles Warren ordered the writing be removed before photographers arrived at the scene (later fuelling rumours of a police cover up and even protection for Jack from on high).

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