Jack the Ripper's Streets of Terror by Rupert Matthews

Author:Rupert Matthews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited

Thick joined the police in 1868 and spent all but six years of his career in Whitechapel

Less than five minutes later Pizer was being hustled through the door of Leman Street Police Station. A woman who was in the reception room stared at Pizer, then ran out of the building. Within five minutes a small crowd had gathered. Twenty minutes later more than a hundred people were outside and the police had locked the doors. Ten minutes after that Leman Street was entirely blocked. The crowd was angry, with men shouting that Leather Apron should be brought out so he could be lynched. A few began to throw stones.

A little past 9 am the sergeant in charge stepped out of the front door. He waved his arms at the crowd to appeal for quiet. He then forcefully told the crowd that he was wearing the uniform of Her Majesty and challenged the crowd to lay hands on it. At this point reinforcements of policemen marched in from Commercial Street Police Station, shouldered their way through the crowd and formed up in front of the station. The crowd began to disperse, but there were still a hundred or so people hanging around at noon.

That evening a crowd gathered in Mulberry Street in the hope that Pizer would return there. The local policeman saw them and summoned reinforcements. After a while it became clear Pizer had gone elsewhere to lie low and the crowd dispersed.

That same day the police received a visit from Mrs Fiddymont, landlady of the Prince Albert pub in Brushfield Street, just 200 yards from the scene of the murder. She said that at 7 am on the morning of the murder a very peculiar customer had come in, whom she had never seen before. The man had spots of dried blood on his hands and a smear of blood on his neck, below the right ear. He had, Mrs Fiddymont said, behaved in a nervous and furtive manner. He bought a drink, gulped it down in one and then left hurriedly, heading towards the City. Mrs Fiddymont described the man as having ‘eyes as wild as a hawk’ and wearing ‘a brown stiff hat, a dark coat, and no waistcoat. His shirt was light blue check and torn badly. He had a light moustache and short sandy hair.’

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