Complete History Of Jack The Ripper Part 16

National Census Returns, 184191.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Belfast D1507. Sir Edward Carson, correspondence & papers.

Office of Population Censuses & Surveys, St Catherine's House, London Registers of births, marriages & deaths.

British Library Additional MS. 57,485. Letters from George R. Sims to Sir Melville Macnaghten.

Bodleian Library, Oxford MS. Eng. hist. c. 723. Letter: Matthews, 5 October 1888, to Ruggles-Brise, on offer of reward for Whitechapel murderer.

Corporation of London Records Office, Guildhall Southwark Inquests 1865, No. 229. Charles White inquest, 1865.

Coroner's Inquest (L), 1888, No. 135. Catharine Eddowes inquest, 1888.

INQ/S/1902/274. Maud Marsh inquest, 1902.

Police Boxes 3.133.23. Letters, mainly from general public, to City Police about Whitechapel Murders.

Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury MS. 10445/33. City of London Cemetery, Little Ilford, burial register, 1888.

MS. 6012A/1719. Land Tax Books, Mile End Old Town, 1886, 18901.

MS. 6015A/45. Land Tax Books, Whitechapel, 188790.

Greater London Record Office, Northampton Road MJ/SPC, NE 1888 Box 3 Case Paper 19. Mary Jane Kelly inquest, 1888.

PS/TH/A1/824 and PS/TH/A2/516. Thames Police Court registers, 188791.

H12/CH/B2/2. Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, male admissions register, 18881906.

H12/CH/B13/36, 3942. Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, male casebooks, 1887, 189095.

H12/CH/B6/2. Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, discharge register, 18916.

StBG/Wh/123/1920. Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary, admission & discharge books, 18879.

StBG/ME/114/45. Mile End Old Town Workhouse, admission & discharge books, 189091.

StBG/ME/117/1213. Mile End Old Town Workhouse Infirmary, admission & discharge books, 189091.

X/20/355. Mile End Old Town Workhouse, religious creed register, 189092, microfilm.

X/20/362. Mile End Old Town Workhouse Infirmary, religious creed register, 188792, microfilm.

StBG/ME/107/8. Mile End Old Town, orders for reception of lunatics into asylums, 188991.

StBG/ME/112/4. Mile End Old Town, orders for admission of imbeciles into asylums, 18861903.

HO.BG/541/71. Holborn Workhouse, City Road, admission & discharge book, 1900.

X/20/65. St. Giles Workhouse, religious creed register, 188992, microfilm.

Acc 2385/63. Calendar, County of London Sessions, Clerkenwell, December 1900.

Banstead Hospital: admissions register, 18912, and papers relating to Michael Ostrog, 18913. (uncatalogued) At time of writing the following records of Leavesden Asylum had not been allocated references: Admission order book, Nos. 73517400.

Male case register, Vol. 12A, p. 29.

Male medical register, 18701917.

Male medical journal, 191821.

Admission & discharge book, 191920.

Aaron Kosminski file from 'case files 1919'.

Westminster City Library (Victoria Library), Buckingham Palace Road D358, D362 and D366. Rate books, Rupert Street, St James Piccadilly, 188790.

Holborn Library (Local Studies), Theobalds Road Rate books, Great Ormond Street, 18878.

Royal London Hospital Archives & Museum, Whitechapel London Hospital, patient admission register, 1888.

MC/S/1/1. London Hospital Medical College, index register of students, 17411914.

MC/S/1/6. London Hospital Medical College, register of students, 18761889.

Whitechapel Murders: The E. K. Larkins Collection.

Maps and sketches by Dr Gordon Brown and Frederick Foster, Mitre Square Murder, 1888. Originals now framed in Secretary's Office, London Hospital Medical College, Turner Street, photographs in archives.

Harperbury Hospital, Radlett, Herts Leavesden Asylum, admissions & deaths registers.

Springfield Hospital, Glenburnie Road, London Surrey Lunatic Asylum, Male Patients Admission Book, 188088.

Surrey Lunatic Asylum, Criminal Lunatics Book, 18851950.

St Olave's & St Saviour's Grammar School Foundation, New Kent Road St John's Charity School, admissions register 18427, and charity minutes up to 1857.

Gloucesters.h.i.+re Record Office, Gloucester Q/Gc 6/5. Gloucester Gaol register, 186571.

Q/Sm 1/7. Gloucesters.h.i.+re Quarter Sessions, Epiphany Sessions, 1866, court minute book.

Q/SD2 1866. Gloucesters.h.i.+re Quarter Sessions, Epiphany Sessions, 1866, depositions.

Surrey Record Office, Kingston upon Thames Acc 1523/3/1/5. Brookwood Lunatic Asylum, admission register, 1887.

Staffords.h.i.+re Record Office, Stafford Bushbury, Staffs., parish register, 1832.

The following abbreviations are employed throughout the notes: CLRO.

Corporation of London Records Office.

CPL.

Coroner's Papers, Langham: Eddowes inquest, see under Corporation of London Records Office.

CPM.

Coroner's Papers, Macdonald: Kelly inquest, see under Greater London Record Office.

DN.

Daily News DT.

Daily Telegraph ELA.

East London Advertiser ELO.

East London Observer GL.

Guildhall Library GLRO.

Greater London Record Office (now London Metropolitan Archives) PMG.

Pall Mall Gazette PRO.

Public Record Office RLHAM.

Royal London Hospital Archives & Museum T.

The Times WCL.

Westminster City Library (Victoria).

Notes.

Introduction.

1 For recent literature see Alexander Kelly, Jack the Ripper: A Bibliography and Review of the Literature (third edition, 1995) and Ross Strachan, The Jack the Ripper Handbook (Irvine, Scotland, 1999).

2 Register of cases, PRO, DPP 3/7, application No. 420.

3 They are now published in Stewart Evans & Keith Skinner (ed.), The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook (London, 2000), pp. 35. This book, an altogether magnificent selection of primary source material, is indispensable to serious students of the case.

4 Dew, I Caught Crippen (London, 1938), pp. 9192.

5 For the fruits of recent research into some of the Ripper's victims, see Neal Shelden, Jack the Ripper and his Victims (Hornchurch, Ess.e.x, 1999).

6 J. Shepherd, H. Ellis & G. Davies, Identification Evidence (Aberdeen, 1982), pp. 8086; J. Shepherd, 'Identification After Long Delays,' in Sally Lloyd-Bostock & Brian Clifford (ed.), Evaluating Witness Evidence (1983), pp. 173187; G. Davies, 'Mistaken Identification: Where Law Meets Psychology Head On,' a paper read to the British a.s.sociation for the Advancement of Science, 9 September 1994.

7 A. Aylmer, 'The Detective in Real Life,' Windsor Magazine, I (1895), p. 507.

8 H. L. Adam, CID Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard (London, not dated), p. 14.

9 Daily Chronicle, 1 September 1908.

10 Compare deposition of Inspector Abberline, 12 November 1888, CPM, f. 12, and report of Dr Phillips, 22 July 1889, MEPO 3/140, f. 265.

11 D. S. Goffee, 'The Search for Michael Ostrog,' Ripperana, No. 10, October 1994, pp. 512.

12 St Giles Workhouse, Religious Creed Register, 188992, GLRO, Microfilm X/20/65. The following records of Banstead Hospital, held by GLRO but uncatalogued at time of my research, contain valuable information: Admissions Register, 18912; Reception Order, 4 May 1891; Macnaghten, 7 May 1891, to Medical Supt.; Notice of Discharge, 29 May 1893.

13 Aylesbury Reporter, 7 July 1894; Bucks. Herald, 16 and 23 June, 7 July 1894; Remissions and Pardons 18941907, PRO, HO 188/3, p. 19.

14 Woolwich Gazette, 16 and 23 September 1898; Woolwich Herald, 23 September 1898.

15 Calendar, County of London Sessions, Clerkenwell, 18 December 1900, No. 90, GLRO, Acc 2385/63; T 11 and 20 December 1900; DT 20 December 1900.

16 Register of Licences, 19028, No. 64026, PRO, PCOM 6/21; Habitual Criminals Register, 1904, PRO, MEPO 6/15, p. 244.

17 The chain of command amongst the various police officers involved on the case is well described by Nick Connell & Stewart Evans, The Man Who Hunted Jack the Ripper: Edmund Reid and the Police Perspective (Cambridge, 1999), espec. pp. 1314, 245, 2830.

18 H. L. Adam, 'My Forty Years as a Crime Investigator,' Thomson's Weekly News, 26 November 1932.

19 Norman Hastings, 'Chapman was not Jack the Ripper,' Thomson's Weekly News, 21 June 1930. On Hastings's work in general, see Nick Connell, "When the People Were in Terror" by Norman Hastings,' Ripperologist, No. 33, February 2001, pp. 46.

20 Michael Conlon, 'A Tale of Two 'Frenchys',' Ripperana, No. 34, October 2000, pp. 110; Melvin Harris, The True Face of Jack the Ripper (London, 1994), p. 165; R. Michael Gordon, Alias Jack the Ripper (Jefferson, North Carolina, 2001), pp. 225246.

21 Gordon, Alias Jack the Ripper, pp. 248250.

22 Stewart Evans & Paul Gainey, Jack the Ripper, First American Serial Killer (London, 1996); Evans & Skinner (ed.), Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook, pp. 611622.

23 Stefan Petrow, Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 18701914 (Oxford, 1994), pp. 6162.

1 A Century of Final Solutions 1 ELA 6 October 1888; Southern Guardian, 5 January 1889.

2 Warren, 17 October 1888, to Matthews, HO 144/220/A49301B/12; Lusk, 7 October 1888, to Matthews, HO 144/220/A49301B/7.

3 Brian Marriner, A Century of s.e.x Killers (London, 1992), p. 19.

4 DT 1 October 1888; Star 10 November 1888.

5 Star 10 November 1888.