The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper (32 page)

  
7
Daily Telegraph
, 2 October 1888.

  
8
Evening News
, 1 October 1888.

  
9
The Times
, 3 October 1888.

10
Echo
, 4 October 1888.

11
Neal Shelden,
The Victims of Jack the Ripper
(Knoxville: Inklings Press, 2007).

12
1881 census.

13
Daily Telegraph
, 12 October 1888.

14
Wolverhampton Chronicle
, 10 October 1888.

15
Daily Telegraph
, 5 October 1888.

16
Star
, 3 October 1888.

17
Today’s Fournier Street.

18
The Times
, 2 October 1888.

19
Report by Donald Swanson, 6 November 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 184–94 (National Archives).

20
Star
, 1 October 1888.

21
Evening News
. 1 October 1888.

22
Daily Telegraph
, 12 October 1888.

23
The Times
, 5 October 1888.

24
Daily News
, 2 October 1888.

  
1
Star
, 2 October 1888.

  
2
Official documents relating to the rewards debate can be found in HO 144/220/A49301B (National Archives).

  
3
Pall Mall Gazette
, 8 October 1888.

  
4
Much official correspondence on the use of bloodhounds is to be found in HO 144/221/A49301E (National Archives).

  
5
Report by Donald Swanson, 19 October 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, f. 147 (National Archives).

  
6
Evening News
, 1 October 1888.

  
7
Daily Telegraph
, 8 October 1888.

  
8
See Neil Bell, ‘Defenceless Whitechapel’,
Ripperologist
95 (September 2008).

  
9
Report by Inspector James McWilliam, 27 October 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 162–70 (National Archives).

10
Evening News
, 19 October 1888.

11
Ibid.

12
Star
, 19 October 1888.

13
Major Henry Smith,
From Constable to Commissioner: The Story of Sixty Years, Most of Them Misspent
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1910).

14
Atlanta Constitution
, 5 October 1888;
East London Observer
, 20 October 1888;
Evening News
, 19 October 1888.

15
CLRO Police Box 3.16, no. 154 (London Metropolitan Archives).

16
Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow,
Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates
(Stroud: Sutton, 2006).

  
1
Unless otherwise stated, information pertaining to witnesses in the Mary Kelly case is taken from the surviving inquest papers (MJ/SPC, NE1888, Box 3, Case Paper 19) held at the London Metropolitan Archives.

  
2
Star
, 10 November 1888.

  
3
Dr Thomas Bond’s post-mortem report; MEPO 3/3153, ff. 10–18 (National Archives).

  
4
The Times
, 10 November 1888.

  
5
Daily Telegraph
, 10 November 1888.

  
6
East London Observer
,
Illustrated Police News
, 17 November 1888;
Manchester Guardian
,
Daily Telegraph
, 10 November 1888.

  
7
Walter Dew,
I Caught Crippen: Memoirs of Ex-Chief Inspector Walter Dew
(London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1938).

  
8
Sir Melville Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
(London: Edward Arnold, 1914).

  
9
Possibly Matilda
Buckey,
recorded at 1 George Street (later St George Street) in the 1881 census.

10
Star
, 12 November 1888.

11
Most probably Mary
McCarthy
of 1 Breezer’s Hill, as recorded in the 1891 census.

12
Western Mail
, 12 November 1888.

13
Mrs Harvey had stayed with Mary on a couple of previous nights and claimed that she was present when Joseph Barnett arrived on the evening of 8 November, apparently at 6.55, which conflicts with Lizzie Allbrook’s account and the claim by Elizabeth Foster that she had been drinking with Mary at the Ten Bells (
Evening News
, 12 November) or the Britannia
(Evening Express
, 12 November) the same evening until 7.05.

14
Daily Telegraph
, 13 November 1888.

15
The Times
, 10 November 1888.

16
Statement by George Hutchinson, 12 November 1888; MEPO 3/140, ff. 227–9 (National Archives).

17
Statements of Sarah Lewis and Elizabeth Prater from Kelly inquest papers, MJ/SPC, NE1888, Box 3, Case paper 19 (London Metropolitan Archives).

18
The Times
, 10 November 1888;
Illustrated Police News
, 17 November 1888.

19
Daily Telegraph
, 13 November 1888.

20
RA VIC/A67/19 (Royal Archives).

21
RA VIC/B40/82 (Royal Archives).

22
Dr Bond’s report, 10 November 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 220–23 (National Archives).

  
1
Daily News
, 20 November 1888.

  
2
The deleted expletive has never been ascertained.

  
3
The Times
, 26 November 1888.

  
4
This correspondence can be found in HO 144/221/A49301H and MEPO 3/143 (National Archives).

  
5
Often referred to by that name in the press, it was owned by Thomas Tempany and consisted of a number of consecutive properties.

  
6
Report by Inspector Henry Moore, 17 July 1889; MEPO 3/140, ff. 294–7 (National Archives).

  
7
Report by Sergeant John McCarthy, 24 July 1889; MEPO 3/140, f. 278 (National Archives).

  
8
The Times
, 18 July 1889.

  
9
Report by Detective Sergeant Albert Pearce; MEPO 3/140, f. 275 (National Archives).

10
Report by Dr Phillips, 22 July 1889; MEPO 3/140, ff. 263–71 (National Archives).

11
Report by Thomas Bond, 17 July 1889; MEPO 3/140, ff. 259–62 (National Archives).

12
Report by James Monro, 17 July 1889; HO 144/221/A49301I, ff. 5–6 (National Archives).

13
Sir Robert Anderson,
The Lighter Side of My Official Life
(London: Hodder and Stoughton 1910).

14
The Times
, 16 February 1891.

15
Statement by James Sadler, 14 February 1891; MEPO 3/140, ff. 97–108 (National Archives).

16
MEPO 3/142, ff. 234–5 (National Archives).

  
1
Sir Melville Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
(London: Edward Arnold, 1914).

  
2
T. G. Davey, MD, ‘Lectures on Insanity, Delivered at the Bristol Medical School During the Summer Session of 1855’,
Association Medical Journal
, 7 September 1855.

  
3
Star
, 13 September 1888.

  
4
‘The Whitechapel Murders’,
British Medical Journal
, 8 December 1888.

  
5
Evening News
, 7 December 1888.

  
6
HO 144/221/A49301C, f. 225 (National Archives).

  
7
The Times
, 27 September 1888.

  
8
Report by Sir Charles Warren, 19 September 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 90–92 (National Archives).

  
9
Unsigned report by Sergeant William Thick, 17 September 1888; MEPO 3/140, ff. 21–3 (National Archives).

10
Report by Inspector Frederick Abberline, 19 September 1888; MEPO 3/140, ff. 24–8 (National Archives).

11
Echo
, 19 September 1888.

12
The Times
, 19 September 1888.

13
Report by Sir Charles Warren, 7 November 1888; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 200–201 (National Archives).

14
Evening News
, 31 August 1888.

15
Michael Macilwee,
The Gangs of Liverpool
(Wrea Green: Milo Books, 2006).

16
A. Davies,
The Gangs of Manchester
(Wrea Green: Milo Books, 2008).

17
Freeman
, 16 November 1888.

18
Report by Edward Knight Larkins, received 11 January 1889; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 239–45 (National Archives).

19
Report by Robert Anderson, 22 January 1889; HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 235–6 (National Archives).

20
Report by Donald Swanson, 10 October 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C, ff. 148–59 (National Archives).

21
Daily Telegraph
, 19 September 1888.

22
Star
, 4 October 1888.

23
New York Times
, 6 October 1888.

24
Trevor Marriott,
Jack the Ripper: 21st Century Investigation
(London: John Blake, 2007).

25
CLRO Box 3.22 No. 358 (London Metropolitan Archives).

26
CLRO Box 3.18 No. 215 (London Metropolitan Archives).

27
HO 144/221/A449301, ff. 36, 46–7 (National Archives).

28
The Times
, 2 October 1888.

29
Report by Sir Charles Warren, 25 October 1888; MEPO 3/141, ff. 158–9 (National Archives).

30
Penny Illustrated Paper
, 3 August 1889;
Eastern Post
, 21 September 1889.

31
Report by Donald Swanson, 23 September 1889; photocopies of files missing since the 1970s.

32
Lyttleton Forbes Winslow,
Recollections of Forty Years
(London: John Ousley, 1910).

33
Stewart P. Evans and Keith Skinner,
Jack the Ripper: Letters From Hell
(Stroud: Sutton, 2001).

34
Illustrated Police News
, 20 October 1888.

35
People
, 14 October 1888.

36
Mirror
, 29 July 1889.

37
Also
Williamsport Sunday Grit
, 12 May 1895.

38
Pall Mall Gazette
, 1 December 1888.

39
Formed in 1903 by H. B. Irving and known unofficially as ‘The Crimes Club’.

40
Samuel Ingleby Oddie,
Inquest
(London: Hutchinson & Co., 1941).

41
See Melvin Harris,
The True Face of Jack the Ripper
(London: Michael O’Mara Books, 1994).

42
O’Donnell wrote a manuscript for a book about Stephenson’s candidacy as the Ripper based on the numerous stories he had heard and Stephenson’s own writings. Never published, it can actually be found on
JTRForums.com
at
http://www.jtrforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=328
.

43
Anon., ‘Jack the Ripper by Aleister Crowley’, n.p., article reprinted from
Sothis
magazine, vol. 1, no. 4, 1974 (Cambridge, 1988).

44
The Times
, 18 September 1888.

45
CLRO Box 3.16 No. 150 (London Metropolitan Archives).

  
1
Sun
, 13–17 February 1894.

  
2
Report by Sir Melville Macnaghten; MEPO 3/140, ff. 177–83 (National Archives).

  
3
Druitt’s mother Anne suffered from depression and paranoid delusions.

  
4
The fullest account can be found in the
Acton, Chiswick and Turnham Green Gazette
, 5 January 1889.

  
5
Bristol Times and Mirror
, 11 February 1891.

  
6
Western Mail
, 26 February 1892.

  
7
Major Arthur Griffiths,
Mysteries of Police and Crime
(London: Cassell, 1898).

  
8
Referee
, 22 January 1899.

  
9
See Adam Wood, ‘Copy Be Damned, That’s the Original: A History of the Macnaghten Memoranda’,
Ripperologist
124 (February 2012), for a detailed analysis of the evolution and provenance of the memoranda.

10
Sir Robert Anderson,
Criminals and Crime: Some Facts and Suggestions
(London: Nisbet, 1907).

11
Alfred Aylmer, ‘The Detective in Real Life,’
The Windsor Magazine
, vol. 1, no. 5 (May 1895).

12
Sir Robert Anderson, ‘Punishing Crime’,
The Nineteenth Century
(February 1901).

13
Sir Robert Anderson,
The Lighter Side of My Official Life
(London: Hodder and Stoughton,1910).

14
See Robert House,
Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard’s Prime Suspect
(Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Son, 2011) for a most comprehensive overview of Aaron Kosminski’s life.

15
Martin Fido,
The Crimes, Detection and Death of Jack the Ripper
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).

16
Pall Mall Gazette
, 24 March 1903.

17
Pall Mall Gazette
, 31 March 1903.

18
Discovered in 1993, the ‘Littlechild Letter’ was purchased with other documents by Stewart Evans from antiquarian book dealer Eric Barton.

19
See Timothy B. Riordan,
Prince of Quacks
(Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland and Co., 2009).

20
A Special Branch file of Fenian activities and the Whitechapel
murders is known to exist but has not been publicly seen owing to the highly sensitive nature of the material; the file is closed indefinitely. This may include material relating to Tumblety which could shed new light on the man.