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The Legend of Jack the Ripper (Ch1,p1)
The murderer strikes again. "
This was the headline in almost all the newspapers throughout much of the autumn.
It's been years since the Whitechapel murderer finally ended his atrocity. Living and working at that place in so much proximity to the time was terrifying indeed, even for men.
As a journalist for the East London Observer, I was at the centre of the events, which has caused widespread chaos within my heart. You will find many reports concerned with the horrors of the Whitechapel district, but as they say, every myth and every legend has its origin. However, somehow, the true origin was rarely talked about.
It all began on the morning of September 5th, at exactly 6.30 am in 1873, when a police patrolling unit, who was doing their regular patrolling on the Thames river, without knowing that their regular patrol would turn into something so dreadful that they would remember throughout the rest of their life.
As the patrolling unit was moving through the river, something caught their eye. They were patrolling near the Battersea Pier of Southeast London when they noticed something floating on the water. They went closer to see what it was. And what they saw was so horrifying that they would remember it for years to come. The patrolling unit discovered that it was the left side of a woman's torso. One of the three policemen that was present on the boat, called Constable Richard Fane, picked it out of the water. The remains were immediately taken to the Clapham and Wandsworth Union Workhouse, where Dr Felix Charles Kempster, who was the then, the divisional surgeon at that time, saw them and pronounced that the trunk was dumped in the water, about twelve hours before the discovery was made.
The police at once decided to send a search party to search the river. Henry Locke, a policeman in the employment of the South-Western Railway Company, made another discovery without knowing of the previous event. He...
This was the headline in almost all the newspapers throughout much of the autumn.
It's been years since the Whitechapel murderer finally ended his atrocity. Living and working at that place in so much proximity to the time was terrifying indeed, even for men.
As a journalist for the East London Observer, I was at the centre of the events, which has caused widespread chaos within my heart. You will find many reports concerned with the horrors of the Whitechapel district, but as they say, every myth and every legend has its origin. However, somehow, the true origin was rarely talked about.
It all began on the morning of September 5th, at exactly 6.30 am in 1873, when a police patrolling unit, who was doing their regular patrolling on the Thames river, without knowing that their regular patrol would turn into something so dreadful that they would remember throughout the rest of their life.
As the patrolling unit was moving through the river, something caught their eye. They were patrolling near the Battersea Pier of Southeast London when they noticed something floating on the water. They went closer to see what it was. And what they saw was so horrifying that they would remember it for years to come. The patrolling unit discovered that it was the left side of a woman's torso. One of the three policemen that was present on the boat, called Constable Richard Fane, picked it out of the water. The remains were immediately taken to the Clapham and Wandsworth Union Workhouse, where Dr Felix Charles Kempster, who was the then, the divisional surgeon at that time, saw them and pronounced that the trunk was dumped in the water, about twelve hours before the discovery was made.
The police at once decided to send a search party to search the river. Henry Locke, a policeman in the employment of the South-Western Railway Company, made another discovery without knowing of the previous event. He...
