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The Whitechapel Murders (Jack the Ripper) - Comments by James Payn

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September 22nd

• Detailed illustrations of the London police’s plight at trying to catch Jack the Ripper then only known as The Whitechapel Murders

• The page has 6 scenes with captions reading” “Arrested on suspicion in Whitechapel” & “Trying to identify a supposed murderer in Whitechapel police station” among others. The bottom has a great 3 paragraph report on the police efforts this far. In addition to the many other illustrations and news of the day, this issue contains a remarkable full page with 4 illustrations of the London poor living in a common lodging house in Spitalfields (East end).

October 13th

• Editorials about the Ripper Murders on the "mountain of horror of the crimes in Whitechapel", engravings of Whitechapel including "a suspicious character", the local "Vigilance Committee" in the East-End,
• amongst other things

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