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The Jack the Ripper murders as covered in the "penny press"

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Lot 130 | The Jack the Ripper murders as covered in the "penny press"
The Jack the Ripper murders as covered in the "penny press"

The Penny Illustrated Paper, 1888

JACK THE RIPPER – The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times. London: Thomas Fox, 7 January - 29 December 1888.



"East London has a terror that must be stamped out." The first five murders attributed to Jack the Ripper as reported and illustrated in the London "Penny Press." With a pertinent letter from the editor about the murderer laid in. A terrific "first-hand" narrative of the infamous and still unsolved murders that haunted London in the late nineteenth century as covered sensationally by The Penny Illustrated Paper. The paper covers the many incidents that became known as the "Whitechapel murders" that began in April 1888, but the first report of the murder that has been widely considered the work of Jack the Ripper appears on the front page of the 8 September issue (No. 1423, Vol. 545), with a sketch of Police-Constable John Neil's discovery of the body of "Mary Ann Nicolls in Buck'srow, Whitechapel, on the early morning of August the 31st" Interestingly, the article also notes that the police connected it to two other murders including Martha Turner (7 August) and another unidentified victim, "less than twelve months previously," believing they were committed by the same individual—a theory that appears to have been discredited at a later stage of the investigation. The front page of the 15 September issue announces the murder of Annie Chapman in Spitalfields, while the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes (30 September) dominate the front page of the 6 October issue: "LONDON'S REIGN OF TERROR: SCENES OF SUNDAY MORNING'S MURDERS IN THE EAST-END." The body of the final member of what became known as the "canonical five, "was discovered on 9 November is first reported in the 17 November issue. Other issues cover the training of dogs to locate remains (20 & 27 October), while the particulars of Mary Jane Kelly's funeral appear in the 24 November issue.



Quarto (370 x 228mm). Blue cloth boards (spine cracked, endpapers toned). [With:] BUCKLE, George Earle (1854-1935). Autograph letter signed in the third-person ("The Editor of The Times") to Dr. James Risdon Bennett, [London,] 27 September 1888. 4pp. 182 x 114mm. Buckle asks Bennett to revise a letter he planned to publish in the Times the following day to reflect that the Times was not the source of the theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by someone with a knowledge of anatomy who wished to obtain certain bodily organs for medical purposes, but rather to "the Coroner in the public discharge of his duties. If Sir James will so alter his letter … the Editor will be happy to publish it."

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