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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2127
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 2:43 am: | 
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Thought this might be of interest:
The Times
2 February 1888
MURDER AND SUICIDE IN THE EAST END
A murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, was committed at about half past one o'clock yesterday at 147 Backchurch lane, Whitechapel. Among the occupants of the house was a boot finisher named Louis Cohen and living with him, as his wife, was a young Russian Jewess named Potstami. Two months since she left her husband and went to live with Cohen, who yesterday found that the husband was in the neighbourhood. At 1 o'clock the woman went out to buy some provisions. Soon afterwards Cohen heard the woman screaming, and, on rushing down the stairs, was just in time to see her lying in the middle of the rtoad with her throat cut from ear to ear. She was just able to poiint in the direction of Commercial road, and then became unconscious. Meanwhile some neighbours saw the husband running away, and pursued him, but in passing along Greenfield street, after crossing the Commercial road, he noticed a constable coming towards him, and he immediately cut his own throat with a shoemaker's knife. The man expired on the way to the London Hospital. The woman had been removed to the same place, but she also died before the hospital gates were reached. Although no one actually saw the murder committed, it is evident that the man attacked his wife and cut her throat at the foot of the stairs as she re-entered the house, and that she ran out and fell down in the road, as the floor at the foot of the stairs has a quantity of blood upon it, and the provisions which the woman was carrying were strewn in all directions. The murderer was in the same trade as Cohen. |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2128
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 2:52 am: |
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Here is the inquest relating to the above:
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Frank van Oploo
Chief Inspector
Username: Franko
Post Number: 709
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 5:13 pm: |
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Interesting stuff, Chris - thanks for sharing it.
Frank
"There's gotta be a lot of reasons why I shouldn't shoot you, but right now I can't think of one."
- Clint Eastwood, in 'The Rookie' (1990)
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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2331
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 5:48 pm: |
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Sorry Chris, I should have responded sooner, but I was in 1888, or was that 1664?
Cohen, Cohen? He must have been one of them Juwes to blame for nothing.
Have a look at a Benjamin Quinnell, aged 27, who in October 1888 stabbed a passing woman in what was described by the press as a 'dangerous part'.
Never heard it called that before. |
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