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Very lengthy Jack the Ripper report...
Very lengthy Jack the Ripper report...
Item # 704844
October 02, 1888
THE TIMES, London, Oct. 2, 1888
* Jack the Ripper - lengthy report
* Whitechapel, London murders
* Best publication to be had (very rare)
"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 6 has an uncommonly lengthy article headed: "The Murders At The East End" which has considerable reporting on the Jack the Ripper case, taking over half of the page.
Much of the coverage is taken up with depositions of various witnesses, with a prefacing note: "Yesterday, Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, coroner for the South-Easter Division...opened an inquiry at the Vestry-hall...respecting the death of Elisabeth Stride who was found murdered in a yard ...on Sunday morning...The jury having viewed the body, the following evidence was taken..." and what follows is various testimony (see for portions). Elizabeth Stride was the third of the five "canonical five" victims positively murdered by Jack the Ripper. There were an additional nine other alleged Ripper victims.
Additionally, page 5 has a report headed: "The Whitechapel Murders" is datelined from Vienna, and recounts a similar situation concerning: "...A Galician Jew named Ritter was accused in 1884 of having murdered & mutilated a Christian woman in a village near Cracow...judges of the Court of Appeal...feeling that the man was the victim of popular error and anti-Semitic prejudice, ordered a new trial...".
The reporting and detail of the text is considerable, much lengthier than is typically found in newspapers of the day.
Complete in 16 pages, minor damage to the top of several leaves has been archivally repaired with no loss to any words in the Jack the Ripper articles. A few other small archival mends at margins.
Category: Post-Civil War
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