Good Friday, April 8, 1887: Joseph Barnett meets Mary Jane Kelly for the first time in Commercial Street. He takes her for a drink and arranges to meet her the following day. At their second meeting they arrange to live together. Both breasts were more or less removed by circular incisions, the muscle down to the ribs being attached to the breasts. The intercostals between the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs were cut through and the contents of the thorax visible through the openings. The body was lying naked in the middle of the bed, the shoulders flat but the axis of the body inclined to the left side of the bed. The head was turned on the left cheek. The left arm was close to the body with the forearm flexed at a right angle and lying across the abdomen.

I am interested in taking one of the "Ripper Walks" offered in London. Which ones do you recommend and where do I write for more information? Mile End" - Article from "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. III, no. 33 (November 1933), on the history of the hamlet of Mile End Old Town and Stepney Green.Subjects: John Gardner - Israel Schwartz - Antonio Sironi - Joseph Lawende - William Marshall - Catherine Eddowes - PC William Smith - James Brown - Jane Coram - Elizabeth Stride - J. Best - Fido argues that the dangerous schizophrenic "David Cohen" and the elusive Nathan Kaminsky actually are one and the same, and that his name was changed to David Cohen by the police, since they didn't know his identity or didn't bother to spell his name correctly, due to over-crowding and language difficulties. Then Macnaghten and Swanson confused the imbecill Aaron Kosminski with the "raving lunatic" David Cohen. There is no reason to doubt that Aaron Kosminski was mentally ill, taken into custody and then to his brother's house (and finally admitted to Colney Hatch), but he was neither dangerous or kept under restraint, and it didn't happen in 1888 or 1889.

Subjects: Minnie Williams - William Stead - Oscar Wilde - Theo Durrant - Cleveland Street Scandal - Maud Allan - Eduardo Zinna - Prince Albert Victor - Catherine Eddowes is born on April 14, 1842 in Graisley Green, Wolverhampton. At the time of her death she is 5 feet tall, has hazel eyes and dark auburn hair. She has a tattoo in blue ink on her left forearm "TC."East and West London" - Selections from a book by the Rev. Harry Jones of St. George's-in-the-East on his impressions of East London, subtitled "Being notes of common life and pastoral work in Saint James's, Westminster, and in Saint George's-in-the-East". Published in 1875.

AM: George Hutchinson, a resident of the Victoria Working Men's Home on Commercial Street has just returned to the area from Romford. He is walking on Commercial Street and passes a man at the corner of Thrawl Street but pays no attention to him. At Flower and Dean Street he meets Kelly who asks him for money. "Mr. Hutchinson, can you lend me sixpence?" "I can't," says Hutchinson, "I spent all my money going down to Romford." "Good morning," Kelly replies, "I must go and find some money." She then walks in the direction of Thrawl Street.PM: City PCs on night beat leave Bishopsgate Station. They are marched behind their Beat Sergeants from Bishopsgate Station to their respective beats. In amongst these men were City PCs Edward Watkins and James Harvey. At the time of her death, Catherine Eddowes is suffering from Bright's Disease, a form of Uremia. Friends spoke of Catherine as an intelligent, scholarly woman but one who was possessed of a fierce temper. Inquest proceedings for the Tabram, Nichols, Chapman, Stride, Eddowes and Kelly murders. Though most of the original inquest records have been lost, the contemporary newspaper coverage by The Daily Telegraph and The Times (London) was in-depth and very detailed. Some theorists have suggested that the victims knew one another, though there is no evidence to support this idea. Although many of the victims did have lodgings, at various times, in the same small area of Whitechapel, it must be remembered that this district was wildly overcrowded with common lodgers – literally hundreds would huddle together in a single house, two, three or four to a bed. The possibility of course exists that two or more of the victims knew each other, but we have no reason to suspect they did.