In the early hours of Tuesday, 6 August 1888, Martha Tabram was found dead on the first floor landing of a block of model dwellings in Whitechapel, the George Yard Buildings. She had been stabbed 39 times and it was reported at the inquest that her left lung had been… You must be a paid …
Category Archives: 1888
Year of the Ripper: Emma Smith
In the early hours of 3 April, 1888, Emma Smith staggered back to her home at a common lodging house at 18 George Street , Spitalfields. Her face and head were battered and bleeding and her ear was torn. She was also clutching “the lower part of the body.” Ms… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: Alice Bowden
On 27 July 1888 a two-year-old girl was left at the Royal Free Hospital in central London. The child’s name was Alice Bowden, but she was already dead. Her body was so thin an emaciated that she weighed only 8.5lbs, when a child of that age would normally weigh at… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: Percy Andre
On the evening 16th May 1888, three boys were playing football in the street in Queen’s Park, northwest London. As usually happens, the ball ended up going over the fence into a resident’s garden and one of the boys entered through the gate to go and retrieve it. It was… You must be a paid …
Year of the Ripper: Robert Marjoram
Beyond the “East End”, on the other side of the River Lea, lay the parish of West Ham and the industrial suburb of Stratford. Here were mills, porcelain factories and chemical works. Perhaps most importantly for the area there were the works of the Great Eastern Railway. For forty years… You must be a paid …