Jack The Ripper's 1st Three Murders!!


Mary Ann Nichols
At around 3.40am on August 31st 1888, a carter named Charles Cross was walking along Bucks Row, and saw a bundle lying on the ground. Presuming it to be a tarpaulin, and thinking that it might prove useful, he went to look. But he stopped when he noticed that it was a woman lying on her back on the floor with her skirts pulled right up. A couple of seconds later he heard footsteps coming up behind him and he turned around and seen another man, Robert Paul. Nervously the two men approached the silent form and went down to check up on her. Her hands felt cross and they were quite cold. Meanwhile Paul was leaning over her to see if she was breathing. But when he touched her chest he felt it moved slightly. “I think she’s breathing” he told his companion, “but very little if she is.”

ANNIE CHAPMAN
"Dark Annie" met her death on a foggy night, alone, undernourished and suffering from brain and lung diseases which would soon have claimed her if Jack's Knife hadn't. Annie wandered the East End Streets penniless following the death of her husband in 1886. Cruelly treated by life, Annie had two daughters, one of which died in 1882, and a son who was crippled. Living off immoral earnings and selling matches and flowers, Annie was a street hardened rogue. She was buried in secret, at Manor Park on September 14th 1888, by her family.

ELIZABETH STRIDE "Long Liz" was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in November 1843, named Elizabeth Gustafsdotter. After becoming a registered prostitute and giving birth to a still born girl, she moved to London in 1866 and married John Thomas Strise, a carpenter, supposedly living in Gower Street, London. The Strides allegedly kept a coffee shop prior to the breakdown of their marriage in 1882. Long Liz was to have had eight convictions for drunkenness before her fatal appointment with Jack the Ripper. Elizabeth Stride was buried in a pauper’s grave in the East London cemetery aged 44 years.