The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper (30 page)

14. Exterior of Mary Kelly’s room at 13 Miller’s Court. The passageway leading from Dorset Street is visible to the right.

15. Mortuary photograph of Alice McKenzie, whom Dr Thomas Bond believed was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

16. Mortuary photograph of Frances Coles, the last Whitechapel murder victim. James Sadler, her ‘companion’ on the night of her death, was initially suspected but soon released without charge.

17. Crowds gathered at the entrance to Swallow Gardens after the death of Frances Coles; a contemporary press illustration showing how fear of the Ripper still prevailed years after the autumn of 1888.

18. Police poster featuring the ‘Dear Boss’ letter and ‘Saucy Jacky’ postcard, circulated in October 1888: one of many such handbills that were circulated at the time to encourage assistance from the public.

19. Sir Charles Warren, chief commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1886–8.

20. Dr Robert Anderson, newly appointed assistant commissioner at the time of the Whitechapel murders.

21. Inspector Frederick Abberline: a sketch from
Toby
magazine. No confirmed photograph of this important officer has yet been located.

22. Chief Inspector Donald Swanson in later years. His important role in 1888 was to oversee the reports and investigations into the murders.

23. Sergeant William Thick, taken from an H-division group shot. Known as ‘Johnny Upright’, he was described as ‘a holy terror to the local lawbreakers’.

24. Sir Melville Macnaghten, who became assistant chief constable of the Metropolitan Police CID in 1889.

25. Police photograph of early suspect Jacob Isenschmid, known by some as ‘the mad pork butcher’.

26. Roslyn D’Onston Stephenson, an early theorist and latter-day suspect.