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Chris Scott
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This account from the Trenton Times, 23 July 1889 might be of some interest.
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Chris Scott
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Below is the 1891 census entry for Frank Ruffell. The address is 38 Quaker Street Buildings, Christchurch, Spitalfields

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R.J. Palmer
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The same article appeared originally in (I think) the New York Herald. It certainly puts a different spin on the claim that the police immediately dismissed the attack on Annie Farmer (here identified as 'Dark Sarah')

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