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Jack the Ripper: investigating the Annie Chapman case...
Jack the Ripper: investigating the Annie Chapman case...
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September 27, 1888
THE TIMES, London, Sept. 27, 1888 "Jack the Ripper" reports were common in the latter half of 1888, capturing the interest of people on both sides of the Atlantic as evidenced by the reports in many newspapers in the United States. It was the international "sensation" of the era, and a case which was never conclusively solved. Not surprisingly, issues of the respected "Times" newspaper from London are the most sought after, being the primary source for Jack the Ripper reports.
Page 5 has an uncommonly lengthy article headed: "The Whitechapel Murder", which is the section of London where the murders occurred. This article takes 1 1/2 columns, while many other issues of this newspaper devoted several paragraphs or half a column to Jack the Ripper news. Near the beginning is: "Yesterday...Mr. Wynne Baxter, the coroner...resumed his adjourned inquiry at the Working Lads' Institute, Whitechapel, respecting the death of Annie Chapman...who was found brutally murdered in the back yard...on the early morning of...the 8th..." (see). Annie Chapman was the second victim of Jack the Ripper and one of only 5 "canonical victims" of Jack the Ripper about whom there is almost no doubt as to the murderer. There were 9 other "alleged" Ripper victims.
The article continues with much about Chapman, noting in part that: "...she had lived apart from her husband..." who died in 1886, "...She had evidently lived an immoral life for some time, and means had failed..." followed by considerable detail as to her actions, when last seen, etc. Then the report turns to the murder, noting: "...From the evidence...The wretch must have then seized the deceased, perhaps with Judas-like approaches. He seized her by the chin. He pressed her throat & while thus preventing the slightest cry, he at the same time produced insensibility & suffocation. There was no evidence of any struggle. The clothes were not torn...Her throat was then cut in two places with savage determination & the injuries to the abdomen commenced...The body had not been dissected but the injuries had been made by some one who had considerable anatomical skill...There were no meaningless cuts. The organ had been taken by one who knew where to find it..." with so much more.
Complete in 12 pages, in very nice, clean condition and the paper is uncommonly nice & white, not the browned, fragile paper as might be expected.
Category: Post-Civil War
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