The Baskerville Papers: A Dark Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery by Jones Kelvin

Author:Jones, Kelvin [Jones, Kelvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cunning Crime Books
Published: 2016-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

Part Two

Chapter 9

EXTRACT FROM THE LONDON EVENING NEWS, 16TH OCTOBER 1901

The mutilated body of a young boy was discovered earlier this morning in East London in an alleyway behind Dorset Street. The remains of the youth were discovered by a local postman who was on his rounds. So horrific were the boy’s injuries that police have had to erect a temporary barrier to block the awful sight from onlookers. By eight thirty a large crowd had assembled, some of whom threw stones at the police and were then arrested. Inspector Lestrade from Scotland Yard, described the murder as ‘a most brutal and shocking case,’ and urged the local community to co-operate with his officers in finding the attacker.

Dorset Street was recently referred to by The Times newspaper as ‘the worst street in London’ and was the scene of two other murders last year, both of which involved prostitutes, known in Cockney parlance as ‘drabs.’ Local opinion is of the view that they were the work of ‘Jack The Ripper,’ although Scotland Yard does not support this view. Inspector Lestrade told your reporter that he believed the boy’s murder was the work of a ‘psychopath,’ a word originally used by Russian criminologist, Professor Ivan Balinsky to describe a form of moral insanity, which some believe may be genetically transmitted.

Several officers spent the day visiting the slum dwellings which occupy the major part of the street, though their work was hampered by the fact that many of its residents do not live here permanently but are migrants from Europe and Ireland and many of these people do not even speak the English language.

The identity of the murder victim has yet to be established.

THE JOURNAL OF LAURA LYONS, NEE FRANKLAND

September 20th, 1901

I write these words hoping that one day all members of my sex may enjoy the liberty that society and especially men, have so cruelly denied us. In a small way, I hope that I have done a little to relieve the suffering of those poor souls who have shelter and comfort at our Mission Hall here in Bovey Tracey, but this is insignificant compared to the enormous task that confronts those valiant souls who fight for our suffrage and sexual equality. Here I set down the iniquities of male oppression which have afflicted and curtailed my life so that others may learn from my example .

I spent the first few years of my life in northern India, my father being a captain in the British Army. He had married my mother in the summer of ‘74, she being the daughter of a prosperous Hindu merchant from Calcutta. Indira was, as I recall, a beautiful young woman of only fifteen years, a fact which caused some consternation among my father’s fellow officers. One of these, a Captain Andrews, well known as a womaniser, made advances to my mother and was fortunately caught in the act as he was attempting to ravish her, by my father, who whipped him so hard that the attacker spent six weeks recovering in the base camp’s sanatorium.

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