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Authors: Paul Begg,John Bennett
25
Christer Holmgren, ‘Two Murders in Buck’s Row’,
Ripperologist
126 (June 2012).
26
This wartime tragedy saw the death of over 170 people during a panic-stricken rush down the stairs of Bethnal Green Underground station during an air-raid false alarm on 3 March 1943. Among the victims were Florence Lechmere (aged sixty-six); Thomas Allen Lechmere (aged sixty-six); Thomas Charles Lechmere (aged forty-three).
27
C. J. Morley,
Jack the Ripper: The Suspects
(self-published, 2011).
1
‘The Ghost in the Ripper Machine’,
Guardian,
15 March 1988.
2
‘Jack the Ripper is Back!’,
East London Advertiser
, 2 May 1975.
3
There was a brief vogue for theming a pub around a particular concept, the best known being Irish-themed pubs. Closer to the Jack the Ripper is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Edinburgh, one of four pubs with a ghoulish gothic theme run by the Eerie Pub Company, and Edinburgh also had a pub called the Burke and Hare. London boasts the Sherlock Holmes on Northumberland Avenue.
4
East London Advertiser
, 23 October 1987.
5
Samuel E. Hudson,
Leather Apron or the Horrors of Whitechapel
(Town Printing House, 1888).
6
Austin Statesman
, 5 September 1888.
7
Star
, 5 September 1888.
8
See Paul Begg, ‘The Conference Talks: Did Leather Apron Really Exist?’,
Ripperologist
109 (December 2009).
9
Globe
, 10 September 1888.
10
Star
, 11 December 1888.
11
Irish Times
, 7 September 1888.
12
Star
, 11 September 1888.
13
Star
, 8 October 1888.
14
In 1884, a few doors along at 123 Whitechapel Road, Joseph Merrick, the ‘Elephant Man’, had been exhibited by his manager, Tom Norman.
15
Irish Times
, 11 September 1888.
16
Echo
, 11 September 1888.
17
Daily Telegraph
, 29 November 1888.
18
See Mike Hawley, ‘Whitechapel’s Wax Chamber of Horrors, 1888’,
Ripperologist
130 (February 2013), for an examination of the exhibition and others like it.
19
Daily News
, 1 October 1888.
20
Birmingham Evening Mail
, 6 October 1888.
21
See Andrew Cook,
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
(Stroud: Amberley, 2009).
22
Despite the popular image of gaslight and fog which permeates Ripper iconography today, none of the murders actually took place on a foggy night.
23
John Francis Brewer,
The Curse upon Mitre Square: A.D. 1530–1888
(Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1888). Available as an e-book at
www.hollywoodripper.com
.
24
Punch
, 29 September 1888.
25
Evening News
,
Echo
, 11 October 1888 and others, where she is referred to as ‘Mrs Sodeaux’.
26
Statement of George Hutchinson, 12 November 1888; MEPO 3/140, ff. 227–9 (National Archives).
27
The Times
, 12 September 1888.
28
Evening News
, 5 October 1888.
29
Ottawa Free Press
, 21 November 1888.
30
Harold Furness (ed.),
Famous Crimes Past and Present
(London: Caxton House, 1903). The complete series on the Whitechapel murders was reprinted in one volume by Thomas Schachner in 2007, limited to fifty copies.
1
Ottawa Citizen
, 16 November 1888;
New York Herald
, 13 November 1888;
Pall Mall Gazette
, 28 November 1888;
East London Observer
, 1 December 1888; among others.
2
Toronto Globe
, 15 November 1888.
3
Founded by Samuel McLure in 1893, it featured political and literary content, often publishing novels in serialized form as was
customary at the time. Before its demise in March 1929, it had published work by Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London and Arthur Conan Doyle.
4
Waxworks
or
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
(Neptun-film 1924); Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss; dir. Leo Birinsky/Paul Leni.
5
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
(Gainsborough 1927); Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, ‘June’; dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
6
Pandora’s Box
(Nero-film 1928); Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer; dir. Georg Pabst.
7
Jack the Ripper
(Paramount 1959); Ewen Solon, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, dir. Robert S. Baker.
8
David ‘Screaming’ Lord Sutch,
Life as Sutch
(London: HarperCollins, 1991).
9
Both of which had depictions of the top-hatted Ripper emblazoned upon them.
10
A Study in Terror
(Columbia Pictures 1966); John Neville, Donald Houston; dir. James Hill.
11
Jack the Ripper also made appearances in other popular TV series, notably
Cimarron City
(1968),
Get Smart
(1970),
Kolchak the Night Stalker
(1974),
Fantasy Island
(1980) and
Dr Who
(2011).
12
US broadcast, 22 December 1967.
13
The story was also televised in an episode of US series
Thriller
, broadcast 11 April 1961.
14
The Ripper crossed dimensions again in 1979’s
Time after Time
where H. G. Wells pursues Jack to twentieth-century New York in his time machine.
15
Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde
(Hammer 1971); Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim; dir. Roy Ward Baker.
16
Hands of the Ripper
(Hammer 1971); Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, dir. Peter Sasdy.
17
Originating from a one-off sketch in the TV series
Six Dates with Barker
in 1971, the ‘Phantom Raspberry Blower’ serial was broadcast throughout 1976.
18
UK broadcast, 18, 25 October 1988.
19
Murder by Decree
(Embassy 1979); Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland; dir. Bob Clark.
20
Untitled news clipping, 27 October 1988 (Bishopsgate Institute Library).
21
From Hell
(20th Century Fox 2001); Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm; dirs. Albert and Allen Hughes.
22
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell,
From Hell
(1991–6); also
Dance of the Gull Catchers
(1998). Published in one volume by Knockabout Comics, 1999.
23
The Lodger
(Stage 6 Films 2009); Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Simon Baker, dir. David Ondaatje.
24
Whitechapel
; ITV1, starring Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton, UK broadcast 2, 9 and 16 February 2009.
25
The Times
, 10 February 2009.
26
Guardian Online
, 30 December 2012.
27
Denis Miekle,
Jack the Ripper: The Murders and the Movies
(London: Reynolds and Hearn, 2002).
1
Karl Berg,
The Sadist
(London: Heinemann, 1945).
2
In October 1975, Peter Samuel Cook was convicted of seven rapes and two woundings which had taken place in 1974–5, holding the city of Cambridge in a state of terror.
3
Barbed Wire Dolls
told the story of ‘prisoners in a barbaric camp of sadistic perversions’ and
Violation of the Bitch
had the tag-line ‘she asked for it’.
4
In 2005, it was discovered that John Humble was responsible for
the letters and tape; he was convicted of perverting the course of justice and sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
5
The Times
, 5 December 1980.
6
Hackney Gazette
, 2 September 1986.
7
‘Ripper Yarns Are Ripping Us Off’,
Sunday Times
, 6 December 1987.
8
City Limits,
12–19 November 1987.
9
Described by Wayman as ‘a Fagin’s Den’ in Paul Woods and Gavin Baddeley,
Saucy Jack: The Elusive Ripper
(Hersham: Ian Allen, 2009).
10
East London Advertiser
, 2 May 1975.
11
East London Advertiser
, 23 May 1975.
12
Stage
, 19 May 1988.
13
East London Advertiser
, 2–18 September 1988.
14
East London Advertiser
, 23 September 1988.
15
Hackney Gazette
, 23 September 1988.
16
Hackney Gazette
, 30 September 1988.
17
East London Advertiser
, undated articles (Tower Hamlets Library and Archives).
18
East London Advertiser
, 9 December 1988.
19
East London Advertiser
, 7 October 1988.
20
Big Issue
, 20 July 1993.
21
Renamed the ‘Whitechapel Society 1888’ in 2005.
22
Shadow of the Ripper
, broadcast on BBC2 on 7 September 1988, was an early, well-considered attempt by Sir Christopher Frayling to place the Ripper crimes in their historical and social context.
23
Finn Mackay, ‘Another Jack the Ripper exhibition’ (End Violence Against Women Blog, 5 June 2008).
24
Alex Werner (ed.),
Jack the Ripper and the East End
(London: Chatto and Windus, 2008).
25
Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis (eds.),
Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, Diversity
(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
1
Pall Mall Budget
, 9 October 1890.
2
Record of Metropolitan Board of Works committee meetings, 1892 (London Metropolitan Archives).
3
Toronto
Daily Mail
, 27 February 1892.
4
As recorded in Samuel Ingleby Oddie,
Inquest
(London: Hutchinson & Co., 1941).
5
Tom Cullen,
Autumn of Terror
(London: Bodley Head, 1965; Fontana, 1966, 1973).
6
Philip Howard, ‘In the Steps of Jack the Ripper’,
The Times
, 17 August 1970.
7
‘Expert in the Unusual’,
The Times
, 25 January 1971.
8
Daily Telegraph
, 27 August 1974.
9
Psychogeography is ‘the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals’ (Guy Debord, ‘Critique of Urban Geography’,
Les Lèvres Neuves
, September 1955).
10
Iain Sinclair,
White Chappell: Scarlet Tracings
(London: Goldmark, 1987).
11
East London Advertiser
, 16 May 1996.
12
Sunday Telegraph
, 12 May 1996.
13
East London Advertiser
, 20 June 1996.
14
Daily Mail
, 27 November 2007.
Books and other media on the subject of Jack the Ripper are included in the footnotes.
The National Archives –
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
London Metropolitan Archives –
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Tower Hamlets Library and Archives –
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk
Bishopsgate Institute Library –
www.bishopsgate.org.uk
British Newspaper Archive –
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Evans Skinner Crime Archive –
www.evansskinnercrimearchive.com/ripper
Casebook: Jack the Ripper –
www.casebook.org
JTRForums –
www.jtrforums.com
Ripper Wiki –
http://wiki.casebook.org
‘Ripperpedia’ is a downloadable mobile app, featuring hundreds of articles and images relating to the people and places in the Ripper case including a GPS feature for locations. Available from the Apple app store.
Publications
Ripperologist
magazine –
www.ripperologist.biz/
Journal of the Whitechapel Society 1888 –
www.whitechapelsociety.com
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