The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook: An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Keith Skinner & Stewart Evans

Author:Keith Skinner & Stewart Evans [Skinner, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472107855
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2013-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Sir C. Warren,

The enclosed letter came this morning from the Post Office. You will see that the envelope contains an enclosure that was never intended to be put into it, and it is the first few lines of the letter so enclosed that relate to the Whitechapel murder. As soon as you have done with it, please return it to me, that I may send it back to the Post Office who have only given it up on a warrant from the S.of S.

G. Lushington

15. Oct. 88.

[Here there is a note in the right margin – “Putup CM”]

There is a Home Office memo slip4 included:

To the REGISTRY HOME OFFICE.

From

Mr. Murdoch

Send Jane Bromley’s

Letter back to P.O.

GL

19 Oct 1888

Mr Moran. [G. Moran was the Home Office superintendent of registry 1876–98]

What was the

Date of H.O. warrant?

CM

15th [illegible]

This is followed by a letter5 from Sir Charles Warren dated 17 October 1888:

17.10.88

Confidential,

Mr. Lushington.

I return the letters from Post Office.

We have made due enquiries about General Brown & he has been seen.

It seems that he has operated on horses for “racing” and this has alarmed & horrified the lady who witnessed it, and she jumped to the conclusion that he would not shirk at anything.

CWarren.

The final memo6 in this small file reads:

Better send

explanatory note

with this result

H.O. has got

the letter.

Can you also

ask Mr Boultbee

whether Sir C.W. has

done with it as

we ought to return to PO

CM.

There would seem to have been many communications made directly with the Home Office as well as the police. Another example from the Home Office letters file is the following copy letter7 regarding Mr John Lock who had been detained by the police, as we have seen:

[A4]930l/77

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