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Letter, signed Jack the Ripper (3 February 1889)

Date
3 February 1889
Type
Letter
Signed
Jack the Ripper
Sent to
For the City, Atlanta, Georgia - USA

Text

This note is for you, God bless you, you _____ fool you. Yours very respectfully, JACK THE RIPPER.
Monday February 3rd, '89

P.S. All ye dissipated women be WAN, for I am in town. JACK THE RIPPER
6-14-20

Notes

Letter discovered carefully folded in a small pasteboard box, and the box wrapped in an abundance of thin brown wrapping paper. The package was marked simply: "For the City". Discovered at Broda street bridge about 8 o'clock on 4 February 1889. Apparently part of a series of letters.

Sources

Atlanta Constitution - 5 February 1889

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