Introduction
Victims
Suspects
Witnesses
Ripper Letters
Police Officials
Official Documents
Press Reports
Victorian London
Message Boards
Ripper Media
Authors
Dissertations
Timelines
Games & Diversions
Photo Archive
Ripper Wiki
Casebook Examiner
Ripper Podcast
About the Casebook


Most Recent Posts:
Scene of the Crimes: Broad Shoulders, Elizabeth's Killer ? - by The Rookie Detective 1 hour ago.
Mary Ann Nichols: Polly’s jolly bonnet - by Holmes' Idiot Brother 6 hours ago.
General Suspect Discussion: Sir Robert Anderson's sixth victim - by Holmes' Idiot Brother 6 hours ago.
Scene of the Crimes: Broad Shoulders, Elizabeth's Killer ? - by JeffHamm 7 hours ago.
Pub Talk: Irritations - by Enigma 8 hours ago.
Pub Talk: Study Shows Reducing 20 Ounce Pint of Beer Would Have Great Health Impacts in UK - by Enigma 8 hours ago.
Pub Talk: Study Shows Reducing 20 Ounce Pint of Beer Would Have Great Health Impacts in UK - by Herlock Sholmes 11 hours ago.
Scene of the Crimes: Broad Shoulders, Elizabeth's Killer ? - by Herlock Sholmes 11 hours ago.

Most Popular Threads:
Scene of the Crimes: Broad Shoulders, Elizabeth's Killer ? - (31 posts)
Pub Talk: Study Shows Reducing 20 Ounce Pint of Beer Would Have Great Health Impacts in UK - (9 posts)
Non-Fiction: New Edition of "Naming Jack the Ripper" by Russell Edwards - (8 posts)
Mary Ann Nichols: Polly’s jolly bonnet - (8 posts)
General Suspect Discussion: "Puckeridge" - (8 posts)
Pub Talk: Great Gig Tonight - (7 posts)


Marion Daily Star
Ohio, USA
26 December 1894

LONDON'S REIGN OF TERROR
A Mysterious Veiled Woman in Black and Her Thirst for Blood

Two ladies of the writer's family were making calls just after dusk yesterday in Kensington. They had some difficulty in finding the new address of a friend, and not seeing a policeman stopped to inquire the way at Queen's gate Terrace of a group of four women who happened to be approaching. Before they had time to speak two words of their question the four women turned and fled, with every evidence of sudden terror. The ladies walked on a few steps, met two more women and attempted to make the same inquiry. The second couple seemed seized with even greater alarm than the first group. They gathered up their skirts, ran across the street and away without waiting to hear the question.

This extraordinary power to put British maids and matrons to flight by a word so amused the two American women that they tested it once or twice more, with the same result, except that one woman retained sufficient self possession to call back "Don't know" over her shoulder as she ran away.

The incident furnishes striking proof of the literal reign of terror now prevailing in one of the most fashionable quarters of London by reason of the series of strange crimes about which the cable has already told you something. A mysterious veiled woman in black, whose mania is to stab others of her sex, has appeared no less than five times within a week in a district less than half a mile square, and although scores of detectives are lying in wait for her she is still at large. In each case she has approached her victim with an inquiry about a certain street. Her first victim lost an eye, and the second was stabbed in the neck, narrowly escaping a fatal wound. The fear of her was now widespread, so that the others she accosted fled before she could strike them. There is some suspicion that she is a small man in disguise, as all describe her as having a gruff voice, but the police believe it is a woman, and that she is undoubtedly insane.

London Letter


Jack the Ripper Dead?

In connection with young Saunderson's insane crime and the Kensington stabbings the authorities have been extremely alarmed lest another Jack the Ripper scare should seize upon the popular mind. This has led them recently to make the important announcement that they have reason to believe that the author of the Jack the Ripper crimes has been several years in his grave.
London Correspondent.


Related pages:
  Saunderson
       Press Reports: Bangor Daily Whig and Courier - 17 January 1895 
       Press Reports: Fort Wayne News - 29 January 1895 
       Press Reports: Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel - 26 November 1894 
       Press Reports: Indiana Democrat - 6 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Marion Daily Star - 4 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 30 January 1895 
       Press Reports: Ogden Standard - 8 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 10 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 11 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 22 December 1894 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 8 January 1895 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - Reginald Saunderson