The Real Mary Kelly (37 page)

Le Journal
, a picture of the model used in the Mrs Barrett paintings by Walter Sickert. In all of them she is wearing a pearl necklace, believed by Patricia Cornwell and others to be an allusion to her neck having been cut. The picture can be viewed in two ways; in one her mouth is closed and the shadow of the newspaper is cast across her chin, in the other her mouth is gaping open and the shadow becomes blood spewing from it. (
© Private Collection
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Another portrait of ‘Mrs Barrett’. Sickert depicts her as an older woman – perhaps Elizabeth as she might have been had she lived? (
© Tate, London
2015
)

Dorset Street, Spitalfields. A photograph taken a few years after the events of 1888, but looking very much as it would have done then. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)

The backyard of 29 Hanbury Street. Annie Chapman’s body was discovered between the steps from the back door and the fence. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)

The scene at the inquest on Annie Chapman on 12th September as captured by the artist from the
Pictorial News
. The reporter in the centre of the three on the press desk in the foreground may be Francis Craig. Compare him with the portrait of his father on the next page. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)

E.T. Craig, Francis’s father from the title page of one of his books. Whilst there are many portraits of his more famous father, there are none known of Francis except for the possible drawing of him at the inquest of Annie Chapman. (
© Public domain
)

Inspector Frederick George Abberline. There are no known photographs of the famous detective but many, widely differing, drawings. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)

A Liston amputation knife c. 1880 with a smooth ebony handle and a narrow 7-inch blade. It was a weapon of this type that Dr Bagster Phillips said was used to kill and dissect Annie Chapman and the other victims. (
© Wynne Weston-Davies
)

Francis Spurzheim Craig’s signature and the address on the first ‘Dear Boss’ letter. Are they by the same hand? (
Envelope: © The National Archives
)

The plaque that marks the spot in the corner of Mitre Square where Catherine Eddowes was murdered in the early hours of 30th September. (
© Wynne Weston-Davies
)

Sketch of Catherine Eddowes’s body, said to have been made by Frederick Foster, the City Surveyor. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)

Postmortem City of London police photograph of Catherine Eddowes after the autopsy. The long midline scar is a continuation upwards of the one made in her abdomen by the Ripper. (
© Evans Skinner Crime Archive
)