Mary Kelly. Now there’s a coincidence.

·  Kate Eddowes called herself Mary Ann Kelly on release from jail. She was arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct on the night of her murder.

·  Elizabeth Jackson was murdered and dismembered June 1889.

·  Elizabeth Jackson’s drawers bore the name LE. Fisher.

·  Kate Eddowes’s sister was called Elizabeth Fisher.

·  The newspapers reported the murder victim’s, Mary Kelly, name as Fisher. “With regard to the drawers bearing the name ‘L E. Fisher’ on the band, and which the man Faircloth had stated had been bought at a lodging-house at Ipswich, it had been found that they belonged originally to a domestic servant at Kirkley, near Lowestoft, and had been sold as old rags by her mother while staying near her daughter in November last.” The Times, 26 July, 1889. Last November 188 was the month and year of Mary Kelly’s murder.

·  Elizabeth Jackson would walk Battersea Park to pick up her clients.

·  Mary Kelly would visit Lambeth to visit a friend.

·  Mary Kelly: approximately twenty five 5ft 7 in. tall with golden hair. Elizabeth Jackson: twenty five, and approximately 5ft 5 in. tall with bright sandy coloured hair. The two women had similar physical characteristics.

·  Eddowes partner was called John Kelly

·  Eddowes claimed to live in a shed in Dorset Street. Millers Court is a small room off Dorset Street.

·  13 Millers Court was host to not one murder’ Years later, in the room directly above the room where Mary Kelly lodged, 1898 26 November, Kate Marshall murdered her sister, Elizabeth Roberts.

How many women did Jack the Ripper kill?

It is unlikely, though, that the career of Jack the Ripper was launched in George Yard Buildings or Buck's Row. Two such possibilities are the knife attacks on Annie Millwood and Ada Wilson in the spring of 1888.

Melvile Macnaghten, joined the Metropolitan Police as Assistant Chief Constable of the CID in June 1889, too late to participate in the Ripper inquiry, discounted Martha, and insisted five woman died by the Ripper’s blade. Abberline, Anderson, Reid and Dew, all included her among the Ripper victims. This appears to have been a general police view in 1888.

Dr Thomas Bond (asked to give his opinion on the skill of the butchery) was sure that all five women had been slain by the same hand. The throats of the first four appeared to have been cut from left to right. Inspector Abberline and Sir Robert Anderson both opted for a tally of six by adding Martha Tabram to Macnaghten's names. Walter Dew believed that these six women were 'definite' Ripper victims. But he made the total seven because he felt that Emma Smith had been the Ripper's first victim. Dr Bond personally examined the wounds inflicted upon Mary Kelly and Alice McKenzie and studied medical notes relating to four of the earlier victims (Nichols, Chapman, Stride and Eddowes). In his view all these six had been killed by the same man.

It appears, therefore, there are five canonical victims because Macnaghten decided it was so.

With both the right and the left hand

THE BAYONET EXERCISE.13

Light Infantry and Rifle Corps should be taught to perform the Bayonet Exercise, both with the right and the left hand, and leg to the front: this will be found to serve the purpose of a system of gymnastics.

In learning the Guards against Infantry and Cavalry, the men must at first be practised in slow time, performing every motion to the orders One, Two, Three. When perfect in this preparatory lesson, they should be taught to come to the guard directly on receiving the word of command, Stand on guard; being careful, however, whilst they change the time, to preserve the order of the motions marked and distinct. The instructor will then give the order to: Stand on Guard against Cavalry.

CAUTION. Prepare for Cavalry. Slow time.

One. On the word Guard, half-face to the right, as before directed.

Two. Move the right foot 18 inches in rear of the left; as described above, and bring the firelock to the position of charge, the point of the bayonet raised to the height of the adversary’s eye, and the sight wrist resting against the hollow of the thigh below the hip.

Three. Throw the body a little forwards, and extend the right leg.

The instructor must spare no pains in preventing the soldier from using force, especially with the left or guiding arm, as too great muscular exertion generally causes the thrust to miss. A trifling body-stab with the bayonet is sufficient to disable a man; and many a promising young soldier has lost his life by burying his weapon so deep in the enemy’s breast that it could not be withdrawn quickly enough to be used against a second assailant. To prevent this happening, the point must be delivered smartly, but with little exertion of force, more like a dart than a thrust, and instantly afterwards the bayonet must be as smartly withdrawn.

Emily Wood was stabbed by a policeman in a 'delicate' part of her anatomy.

I could believe a murderer ran round with a bloodied cloth, for over an hour, on a journey from Mitre Square to Goulston Street that'd take ten minutes! Why would he stay in the vicinity? With a double murder having taken place, a murderer would want to flee. But no, he hangs about. He holds the garment for over an hour and dumps it in a darkened doorway, complete with chalked message, mere minutes from a savage murder.
Or, I could believe someone left Mitre Square and had to log on at 2 am and get to his beat. That beat encompassing Goulston Street. At 2.20 Detective Halse states he didn't see Constable Long on  patrol at Goulston. At 2.55 Constable Long states he notices a rag on a grubby, rubbish strewn, London Street. It draws his attention. Why? He doesn't know, at this stage, apparently, of any murder having been committed.
This constable was sacked the day after the murder of Alice McKenzie in July 1889. The American press reported that a policeman should be questioned. The English papers didn't print of a policeman's presence at the murder scene.
Emily Wood was stabbed by a policeman in a 'delicate' part of her anatomy. She was granted a full line up of the Metropolitan police, over two hundred officers, but she couldn't identify her attacker even though she'd seen her assailant on numerous occasions, on his beat, prior to her assault. All the officers adjacent to her assault were fair. Her attacker sported a dark moustache.

Jack the Ripper quote.

“What really stuck in Alf’s craw, was the clock mender. That hor-uddy-olo-gist detective. He was a good man. A quiet man. But then it’s the quiet ones you have to watch!”

Quote referencing Chief Inspector Frederick George Abberline.

Afghan knife penetrated armour

"The mutilations of Nichols, Chapman, Eddowes and Kelly," said Dr Bond, "were all of the same character. They were inflicted with a strong knife, very sharp, pointed at the top, about an inch in width and at least six inches long. It may have been a clasp knife, a butcher's knife or a surgeon's knife," he speculated, "but I think it was no doubt a straight knife."
Pesh-kabz, peshkabz, peshkab, something or other, Afghan knife penetrated armour. The Khyber knife both cut, stabbed, and punctured bone.

No inverted comma in Millers Court.

No inverted comma in Millers Court. Just checking.

New York Herald Cable

Omaha Daily Bee
July 21, 1889
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New York Herald Cable
"The information of police matters possessed by the Ripper seems sufficient grounds for an investigation of such ex-members as spend time in or about Whitechapel."

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Decatur Daily Despatch
Illinois, U.S.A.
19 July 1889

"An ex member of the Metropolitan police,who was standing talking with a friend at the corner of Castle alley, not more than forty yards distant, about the time of the murder, neither saw nor heard anything."