Pages from the late nineteenth-century newspaper 'The Star', issued on September 8th, 1888, featuring an article about the murder's of Annie Chapman, one of Jack the Ripper's victims, large folio, yellowing, chipping to margins and some losses to papers, 8 September 1888. The article is entitled "Horror Upon Horror. Whitechapel is panic-stricken at another fiendish crime". It contains a full description of the finding of the body ("The scene of the murder is the house 29, Hanbury Street...The body was found in the back yard, just behind the back door, mutilated in an even more ghastly manner than the woman Nicholls. As in her case, the throat was cut, and the body ripped open, but the horror was intensified by the fact that the heart and liver were over her head") and attack the inefficiency of the police system, which is due to "the manner in which Sir Charles [Sir Charles Warren Metroplitan Police Commissioner] has placed it in leading strings and forbidden it to move except under instructions" and to "the inadequate local knowledge of the police". Annie Chapman is considered by the journalist the fourth victim of the killer, the other three being Emma Smith, Martha Trabam and Mary Anne Nicholls. The first two women are not part of the 'canonical' five victims of Jack the Ripper acknowledge by modern historians.
Pages from the late nineteenth-century newspaper 'The Star', issued on September 8th, 1888, featuring an article about the murder's of Annie Chapman, one of Jack the Ripper's victims, large folio, yellowing, chipping to margins and some losses to papers, 8 September 1888. The article is entitled "Horror Upon Horror. Whitechapel is panic-stricken at another fiendish crime". It contains a full description of the finding of the body ("The scene of the murder is the house 29, Hanbury Street...The body was found in the back yard, just behind the back door, mutilated in an even more ghastly manner than the woman Nicholls. As in her case, the throat was cut, and the body ripped open, but the horror was intensified by the fact that the heart and liver were over her head") and attack the inefficiency of the police system, which is due to "the manner in which Sir Charles [Sir Charles Warren Metroplitan Police Commissioner] has placed it in leading strings and forbidden it to move except under instructions" and to "the inadequate local knowledge of the police". Annie Chapman is considered by the journalist the fourth victim of the killer, the other three being Emma Smith, Martha Trabam and Mary Anne Nicholls. The first two women are not part of the 'canonical' five victims of Jack the Ripper acknowledge by modern historians.
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