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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1251
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 4:32 pm: | 
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This seems undeveloped:
'Everyone who does family history research in and around the Whitechapel and Stepney areas, will no doubt find a connection with some street, alley, pub or what have you that features in the Jack the Ripper events of 1887/1889
We however have perhaps more “connections” than most, even though some thirty years or so separate the events. Nonetheless it is an interesting sidelight.
The “Ripper” story is too familiar to require repeating, except to say that between 26th December 1887 and 13th February 1891, the bodies of twelve women were found in the Whitechapel, Aldgate, Stepney area, most of whom had been horribly mutilated.
To work backwards. The coroner who presided over the inquest of Alphons Eden was Wynne E. Baxter, who has also carried out the inquests on five of the Ripper victims in 1888 and 1889,
Elizabeth Stride the third Ripper victim was found dead in the yard at the rear of the international Workingmen’s Educational Club in Berner Street, in September 1888. The Eders had lived in Berner Street, and as this club catered in the main for German speaking migrants since its establishment in 1885, it is not un-likely that Alphons had visited, or even played there.
Pinchin Street, where the Eders resided in 1871, was the location of the finding of a woman’s headless torso, without limbs or head in September 1888. This was speculated as being the work of Jack the Ripper, but the police tended to dismiss that theory, although the body was never identified.
In August 1888. Martha Tabram was found murdered in George Yard Buildings which lie behind St. Judes Church, where the in-cumbent was Samuel Barnet previously mentioned in connection with Elizabeth Eder’s confinements at the Lying in Hospital.
Finally, the public houses of the area featured prominently in the stories of the various Ripper Victims. The German Bands spent most Sunday mornings at these venues and the nearby street markets entertaining the crowds of customers and onlookers.
One can only speculate on how Alphons Eden considered these events at the comfortable distance that they lived when they occurred as to how close they had been twenty years previously.'
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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2671
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 14, 2005 - 5:58 pm: |
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Just to update this verbage.
The Alphons Eden connection came about because two of the daughters, resident in Whitechapel, married carman from Essex who were bringing up the hay for the Whitechapel Hay Market.
Perhaps they found them asleep in their carts, and instead of murdering them, married them? |
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