Complete History of Jack the Ripper (90 page)

1
Western Mail
, 12 November 1888, quoted in Begg,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 149–50.

2
Deposition of Thomas Bowyer, 12 November 1888, CPM, f. 2.

3
GLRO: MJ/SPC, NE 1888, Box 3, Case Paper 19, cited in present work as CPM.

4
Statement of Maria Harvey to police, 9 November 1888, copy filed with CPM; deposition of Maria Harvey, 12 November 1888, CPM, f. 10.

5
For Barnett, see chap. 15, n. 2.

6
Statement of Mary Ann Cox to police, 9 November 1888, copy filed with CPM; deposition of Mary Ann Cox, 12 November 1888, CPM, ff. 3–5.

7
Statement of Elizabeth Prater to police, 9 November 1888, copy filed with CPM; deposition of Mrs Prater, 12 November 1888, CPM, ff. 5–6.

8
Statement of Sarah Lewis to police, 9 November 1888, copy filed with CPM; deposition of Sarah Lewis, 12 November 1888, CPM, ff. 7–8.

9
The Britannia, kept by Walter and Matilda Ringer, at the corner of Dorset and Commercial Streets.

10
Statement of Caroline Maxwell to police, 9 November 1888, copy filed with CPM; statement of Caroline Maxwell, 9 November 1888,
DN
10 November; and deposition of Caroline Maxwell, 12 November 1888, CPM, ff. 6–7.

11
T
12 November 1888.

12
Statement of George Hutchinson, 12 November 1888, MEPO 3/140, ff. 227–9.

13
Statement of George Hutchinson, 13 November 1888,
T
and
Star
14 November.

14
Report of Inspector Abberline, 12 November 1888, MEPO 3/140, ff. 230–1.

15
ELA
24 November 1888.

1
DT
16 November 1888.

2
DT
13 and 14 November 1888.

3
Queen Victoria, 10 November 1888, to Salisbury; Victoria, 13 November 1888, to Matthews. G. E. Buckle (ed.),
Letters of Queen Victoria
(London, 1930), 3rd Series, Vol. I, pp. 447, 449.

4
Warren, ‘The Police of the Metropolis,’
Murray’s Magazine
, Vol. IV, No. 23, November 1888, pp. 577–94.

5
Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 3rd Series, Vol. CCCXXXI, p. 148.

6
He was discharged on 23 November.
T
and
Star
19 November 1888;
DT
24 November 1888.

7
Star
16 November 1888.

8
T
12 November 1888.

9
Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
, pp. 93, 214.

10
Monro, 18 July 1889, to Ruggles-Brise, HO 144/220/A49301B/20. The documents relating to the extra allowance will be found at HO 144/221/A49301G/1–7 and MEPO 3/141, ff. 1–7.

Anderson, replying to the Queen’s queries of 13 November 1888, also gave details of police reinforcements in Whitechapel. He said that the ‘special “detection” force’, i.e. officers in plain clothes, numbered 3
inspectors, 9 sergeants and 6 constables after the Chapman murder of 8 September. In October this strength was increased by 51 men and another 28 were employed to carry out the house-to-house search. ‘The force at present,’ he wrote after the Kelly murder, ‘consists of 2 inspectors and 56 constables.’ Anderson also indicated that the strength of the uniformed sergeants and constables on night duty in H Division was 120 in November 1888. Of this number 43 had been provided by a special augmentation of the division and 77 had been ‘supplied nightly from other divisions to fill the vacancies caused by men being supplied in plain clothes as above.’ (Quoted by Howells & Skinner,
The Ripper Legacy
, p. 193). Without more information these details cannot be reconciled with Monro’s figures.

11
Deposition of John McCormack, 17 July 1889,
DT
18 July.

12
Deposition of Elizabeth Ryder, 17 July 1889,
DT
18 July; depositions of Margaret Franklin and Catherine Hughes, 18 July 1889,
DT
19 July; statements of Elizabeth Ryder and Margaret Franklin, 22 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, ff. 275–6; report of Sergeant John McCarthy, 24 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, f. 278.

13
Depositions of PC Allen, PC Andrews, Sergeant Badham and Sarah Smith, 17 July 1889,
DT
18 July; deposition of Inspector Reid, 18 July 1889,
DT
19 July; reports of PC Andrews and Sergeant Badham, 17 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, ff. 272–4.

14
For the medical evidence, see: depositions of Dr Phillips, 18 July and 14 August 1889,
DT
19 July and 15 August; medical report of Dr Phillips, 22 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, ff. 263–71; Bond, 18 July 1889, to Anderson, MEPO 3/140, ff. 259–62.

15
Monro, 17 July 1889, to Under Sec. State, and report of Superintendent Arnold, 17 July 1889, HO 144/221/A49301I/1; Anderson ‘Lighter Side of My Official Life’,
Blackwood’s Magazine
(March 1910) p. 357 n. 1. For Bond, see n. 14 above. For plain clothes patrols and uniformed reinforcements, HO 151/4, ff. 480–1; MEPO 3/141, ff. 9, 12, 14; HO 144/220/A49301B/20; HO 144/221/A49301G/9.

16
Reports of Chief Inspector Swanson, 10 September 1889, and Monro, 11 September 1889, MEPO 3/140, ff. 128–33, 139; deposition of Dr Phillips, 24 September 1889,
Evening Standard
, 24 September.

17
There is a prodigious amount of evidence on the Coles murder. My account rests principally upon the inquest proceedings in
DT
16, 18, 21, 24 and 28 February 1891, the police court proceedings against Sadler, reported in
DT
17 and 25 February and 4 March 1891, and the police reports in MEPO 3/140, ff. 65–121. See also reminiscent accounts: Richardson,
From the City to Fleet Street
, pp. 277–9; Wensley,
Detective Days
, pp. 4–6; Dew,
I Caught Crippen
, pp. 160–1; Benjamin Leeson,
Lost London
(London, N. D.), pp. 54–60.

18
Wensley,
Detective Days
, p. 5

19
T
27 February, 7 and 28 March 1895;
PMG
7 May 1895; Winslow,
Recollections of Forty Years
, pp. 280–3.

1
Morning Advertiser
, 30 March 1903;
PMG
2 April 1903;
Eastern Post
, 3 February 1893.

2
Report of Dr Phillips, 22 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, f. 270.

3
Report of Melville Macnaghten, 23 February 1894, MEPO 3/141, ff. 178–9; Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
, p. 55;
Cassell’s Saturday Journal
, 28 May 1892;
PMG
24 March 1903; Anderson,
Lighter Side of My Official Life
, pp. 135, 137; Dew,
I Caught Crippen
, pp. 91, 93–4, 97, 106, 156.

4
Sean P. Day, in Peter Underwood,
Jack the Ripper: One Hundred Years of Mystery
, pp. 158–61; Jon Ogan, ‘Martha Tabram – the Forgotten Ripper Victim?’,
Journal of Police History Society
, Vol. V (1990), pp. 79–83.

5
ELO
1 September 1888.

6
Quoted by Howells & Skinner,
The Ripper Legacy
, p. 25.

7
Star
1 October 1888.

8
Knight,
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
, pp. 144–9.

9
ELA
10 November 1888.

10
Morning Advertiser
, 30 March 1903.

11
Dew,
I Caught Crippen
, pp. 126, 149–50.

12
PMG
4 November 1889.

13
Begg, Fido & Skinner,
Jack the Ripper A to Z
, p. 229.

14
T
4 October 1888.

15
See, William G. Eckert, ‘The Ripper Project,’
American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1989), pp. 168–70.

16
David Canter,
Criminal Shadows
(London, 1994), pp. 100–103.

17
Deposition of Frederick Wilkinson, 4 October 1888,
DT
5 October.

18
Cassell’s Saturday Journal
, 28 May 1892.

19
Camps,
Camps on Crime
, p. 38; Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, p. 12.

20
Nick Warren, 18 November 1993, to author; Nick Warren, ‘The Thames Torso Murders 1887–9’,
The Criminologist
, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 80–82.

21
Minute of Godfrey Lushington, 13 October 1888, HO 144/221/A49301D/1; report of Chief Inspector Swanson, 19 October 1888, on Stride murder, HO 144/221/A49301C/8a.

22
PMG
24 March 1903.

23
I am deliberately discounting the description attributed to Sergeant Stephen White in
The People’s Journal
, 26 September 1919. This is clearly fiction developed out of memories of the Berner Street and Mitre Square murders and of Mrs Mortimer.

24
Bermant,
Point of Arrival
, pp. 118–20.

25
Colin Wilson & Donald Seaman,
The Serial Killers
(London, 1990), pp. 63–4.

1
Introduction by Colin Wilson to Alexander Kelly,
Jack the Ripper: A Bibliography and Review of the Literature
, p. 14.

2
Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
, pp. 238–9.

3
Howells & Skinner,
The Ripper Legacy
, pp. 91, 108–10.

4
Rumbelow,
Complete Jack the Ripper
(Penguin edition, 1988), Addendum, pp. 293–5.

5
The quotations are from
The Referee
, 13 July 1902 and 5 April 1903; see also,
Ibid.
, 16 February 1902 and 29 March 1903; Sims,
Mysteries of Modern London
(London, 1906), pp. 72–3; Sims,
My Life
(London, 1917), pp. 141–2.

6
Griffiths,
Mysteries of Police and Crime
(London, 1899), I, pp. 28–9.

7
Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, p. 16.

8
Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 16, 111, 117–8;
The New Statesman
, Vol. LVIII, No. 1495, 7 November 1959, p. 628; Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
, pp. 218–9; Odell,
Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction
, revised edition, 1966, p. 186.

9
Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
, pp. viii-ix.

10
See, especially, Rumbelow,
Complete Jack the Ripper
, pp. 129–31; Howells & Skinner,
Ripper Legacy
, pp. 62, 123–6; Begg,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 167–72; Begg, Fido & Skinner,
Jack the Ripper A to Z
, pp. 175–81.

11
Philip Loftus, reviewing Farson’s book,
The Guardian
, 7 October 1972.

12
‘Memorandum on articles which appeared in the Sun re JACK THE RIPPER on 13 Feb. 1894 and subsequent dates’ by ‘my Father Sir M. M.’, copied by Christabel Aberconway, pp. 5–6, 6A, 6B. Document in private ownership.

13
Report of Melville Macnaghten, 23 February 1894, MEPO 3/141, ff. 179–80.

14
Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
, pp. 223–30, 239–40; Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 112–6, 134, 140–1, 142–3; Irving Rosenwater, ‘Jack the Ripper – Sort of a Cricket Person?’,
The Cricketer
, Vol. 54, No. 1, January 1973, pp. 6–7, 22; Howells & Skinner,
Ripper Legacy
, pp. 119–21, 155–6; Begg,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 173–6; Begg, Fido & Skinner,
Jack the Ripper A to Z
, pp. 71–5.

15
This paragraph rests principally upon
The Acton, Chiswick, and Turnham Green Gazette
, 5 January 1889, which prints summaries of the depositions of William Druitt, Henry Winslade and PC George Moulson, made on 2 January at the inquest into Druitt’s death.

16
Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
, p. 62.

17
Macnaghten,
Ibid.
, p. 54.

18
‘Secret of Scotland Yard: The End of “Jack the Ripper”’,
Daily Mail
, 2 June 1913.

19
Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
, pp. 61–2.

20
Francis Camps, foreword to Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 11–12; see also p. 131.

21
No independent accusation of Druitt, official or unofficial, is known to exist. A careful study of the wording of Griffiths’ account demonstrates clearly that it rested upon the draft version of Macnaghten’s report. Sims saw neither version of the report. But he knew Griffiths’ book and, more to the point, Macnaghten himself, referring to him in his autobiography as ‘my friend of many long years’ (
My Life
, 1917, p. 175). There are several personal letters from Sims to Macnaghten in the British Museum (Additional MS. 57, 485, ff. 166–70). We have no reason to believe that the very late but much published references to the killer’s suicide by Sir John Moylan and Sir Basil Thomson were anything more than confused derivatives, directly or indirectly, of Macnaghten (Moylan,
Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police
, p. 191; Thomson,
The Story of Scotland Yard
, London, 1935, p. 178).

22
Quoted by Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
, p. 77.

23
Rumbelow,
Complete Jack the Ripper
, pp. 149–50, 154; Howells & Skinner,
Ripper Legacy
, p. 150.

24
Those who seek the full ramifications of the Australian connection will find them in Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 109, 117–21; Knight,
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
, pp. 129–33; Harris,
Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth
, pp. 76–80; Howells & Skinner,
Ripper Legacy
, pp. 128–38; Begg, Fido & Skinner,
Jack the Ripper A to Z
, pp. 77–9.

25
Mr Knowles was then in his eighties and must now be dead. Attempts to identify and trace him have not been successful. See, Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, pp. 118–9, 146; Howells & Skinner,
Ripper Legacy
, p. 130.

26
The
Globe
report is reprinted in Melvin Harris,
The Ripper File
(London, 1989), pp. 112–3. For the fullest discussion of Deeming’s links with the Ripper case, see Wilson & Odell,
Jack the Ripper: Summing up and Verdict
, pp. 240–8. See also, Barry O. Jones, ‘Frederick (Bailey) Deeming,’ in
Australian Dictionary of Biography
, Vol. VIII, 1891–1939, pp. 268–9.

27
Camps, foreword to Farson,
Jack the Ripper
, p. 12.

28
The only crumb of comfort I can offer Druittists is the presence of Druitts on the Mile End Old Town Vestry and Board of Guardians in 1890. It is unlikely that they had any connection with Montague’s family from Wimborne but detailed genealogical research might clarify the point.

29
Bournemouth Guardian
, 4, 11 and 18 August, 1 and 8 September 1888; Rosenwater, ‘Jack the Ripper – Sort of a Cricket Person?’, pp. 7, 22. We cannot be certain of Montague’s presence at Salisbury because the press report of the match does not specify which Druitt took part. It may have been William, Montague’s brother, who also sometimes played for Bournemouth, or even Mr A. Druitt, who played for Canford with Montague ten days later.

30
PMG
31 March 1903.