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 Jack The Ripper
| With regard to the Miller's Court murder, what testimony was shared by witnesses Elizabeth Prater and Sarah Lewis? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
Both heard a cry of "Murder," just prior to 4:00 a.m.. Prater heard the cry between 3:30 a.m. and 4:00 a.m., while Lewis estimated the time to be just moments before 4:00 a.m. At the coroner's inquest, Prater changed her testimony to say that she heard the cry just after 4:00 a.m.
| Who was the only Ripper victim to be murdered indoors? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Mary Jane Kelly. Kelly was disembowelled in her own room.
| Who was the first person through the door of Number 13 Miller's Court, site of Mary Kelly's murder? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
Dr. George Bagster Phillips. The divisional police surgeon entered the room at approximately 1:30 p.m., November 9, 1888, after the landlord, John McCarthy, broke the door down with a pickaxe.
| Who was the Commissioner of the City of London Police in 1888? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Sir James Fraser. Cutbush, Macnaghten and Anderson were all employed by the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard).
| Who discovered the body of the first canonical Ripper victim, Mary Ann Nichols? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
George Cross. Cross discovered the body as he walked through Buck's Row on his way to work, at approximately 3:40 a.m., August 31, 1888.
| Who discovered Elizabeth Stride's body? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Louis Diemschutz. Diemschutz is thought to have interrupted the murderer, although there is now some question as to whether Stride was really a victim of the Ripper.
| Who did 'Jack the Ripper' kill? | Jack The Ripper (monalisa2) |
Only prostitutes. Because he killed prostitutes this lead to much speculation on who the killer was. Either a woman scorned by her husband's debauchery, a man who contracted a sexual disease from a prostitute, a man of society who thought prostitutes should be eliminated from society, a man whose wife had left him and become a prostitute. This man was one of the principal suspects. They say he killed his wife's prostitute friends to scare her into stopping this profesion and come back to him. The wife of this man was the last to be killed. It was thought when 'Jack' saw he wasn't going to persuade his ex, he killed her ... ending his motive and these horrific crimes.
| Which victim was born Eliza Ann Smith in Paddington in 1841? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| Which victim at one time lived with a man named Michael Kidney? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| Which two victims were killed during the so-called 'double event'? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Stride and Eddowes. Both were killed on the morning of September 30, 1888 although there is now some question as to whether Stride was actually a true Ripper victim.
| Which suspect was 'married' to a woman named Annie Chapman? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Severin Klosowski. Severin Klosowski was the birth name of suspect George Chapman. The Annie Chapman he was married to had no relation to the Ripper victim of the same name.
| Which alleged Ripper communication was 'from hell'? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
The Lusk Letter. It was sent to George Akin Lusk, head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
| Which 'suspect' used the title 'Dr.' in front of his name? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Francis Tumblety. Tumblety is variously described as an American quack and herbalist. He signed his name 'Dr. Tumblety' or 'Dr. Francis Tumblety'.
| Where was Catharine Eddowes' body found? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Mitre Square. Mitre Square falls within the jurisdiction of the City of London Police.
| Where did 'The Ripper' crimes take place? | Jack The Ripper (monalisa2) |
London. In London's East End - at the time poorest and roughest district of London.
| When did the 'Jack the Ripper' crimes take place? | Jack The Ripper (monalisa2) |
| What was the name of the pub at the corner of Commercial Street and Dorset Street? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| What was the name of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who resigned during the Ripper murders? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| What was the name of suspect Aaron Kosminski's brother? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| What journalist is identified in the Littlechild Letter as having written the 'Dear Boss' letter? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Thomas J. Bulling. James K. Stephen was a Ripper suspect in his own {right;} Peter J. Harpick is an anagram of Jack the Ripper.
| What is the date on the 'Dear Boss' letter sent to the Central News Agency? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| What did 'The Ripper' do to his victims? | Jack The Ripper (monalisa2) |
slit throats and removed body parts. This is why it was thought Jack was a doctor. He would, with surgical perfection, cut open the abdomen and carefully remove organs, especially the intestines,and fling them over the victims shoulder ... and without much loss of blood.
| The Ripper allegedly sent a body part through the mail along with the Lusk letter. What was the body part? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
| The public's disdain at their ineffectiveness, combined with the immediate posting of a reward for Eddowes murderer, were the catalysts that precipitated the Home Office's decision to finally offer a reward in the Nichols, Chapman, and Stride cases? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
f. Even after the horrific "double-event," Secretary of State, Henry Matthews, still rejected all appeals for a government reward in the Whitechapel murders.
| The name "Jack The Ripper" first appeared in the "Dear Boss" letter, received by the Central News Agency on September 27, 1888. Generally accepted to be the work of an enterprising journalist, who is suspected of giving the murderer his famous moniker? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
Tom Bulling. According to John G. Littlechild, Head of the Special Branch at the time of the murders, Scotland Yard believed that Bulling, a Central News Agency reporter, invented the name and drafted the letter.
| The murder of Catharine Eddowes fell within which police department's jurisdiction? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
City of London. Eddowes' murder was the only one of the canonical five to fall outside the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police, better known as Scotland Yard.
| The image of Jack The Ripper as a cloaked figure carrying a medical bag through the foggy, gaslit streets of London, persists to this day. With whom did the "black bag" originate? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
Fanny Mortimer. Mortimer lived two doors down from the scene of Elizabeth Stride's murder. Her official statement, which appeared in the Daily News of October 1, 1888, states that she saw a suspicious man carrying a black bag, in the vicinity of the crime scene. However, she goes on to clarify that the man was coming from Commercial Road, not Dutfield's Yard. The man she saw presented himself to police and was cleared of any suspicion. Ironically, that fact was not widely publicized and Mortimer's mention of the bag has mistakenly been associated with Jack The Ripper, to this very day.
| The grave of which Ripper victim no longer exists? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
Annie Chapman. Chapman was interred in Manor Park Cemetery, in a public or communal grave. Buried twelve feet down, the ground has since been re-used and no trace of her original resting place now exists.
| The Goulston Street Graffito was a chalked message written on the fascia of a doorway, supposedly by the Ripper. What was the name of the buildings the message was written on? | Jack The Ripper (rfswfs) |
Wentworth Model Dwellings.
| The chalk message written on the wall of the open doorway on Goulston Street is thought to be the only clue that Jack The Ripper left. It read, "The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing." Despite its' significance, Sir Charles Warren obliterated it before the photographer arrived. Why? | The Ripper Murders - Official Perspective (ripper1) |
Because he was following a recommendation from a fellow official.. Aware that Superintendent Thomas Arnold knew more about the conditions in Whitechapel than he, Warren carried out Arnold's order without hesitation. In "The Complete History of Jack the Ripper" by author Philip Sugden, Arnold's report to the Home Office dated November 6, 1888, states, "A strong feeling existed against the Jews after suspicion fell on John Pizer after the Hanbury Street incident. I was apprehensive that if the writing were left it would be the means of causing a riot".
| Sir Robert Anderson, head of the CID in 1888, published his memoirs, "The Lighter Side of My Official Life," in 1910. According to Anderson, what brought the Ripper murders to an end? | Ripper Facts and Fiction (ripper1) |
The exodus of prostitutes from the streets.. Anderson claimed that "his" policy of denying police protection to prostitutes, drove them from the streets. This action robbed the Ripper of victims and the killings stopped.
 Frequently Asked Questions about Jack The Ripper
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- I believe one of the suspects for the identity of Jack the Ripper is the artist Walter Sickert. Apart from one of his paintings entitled "The Ripper's Bedroom" what other evidence is there to support this theory? ( goto )
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