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1888-08-31 · Mary Ann Nichols seen drunk at the corner of Osborn Street and Whitechapel Road by her friend from the Thra
1888-08-31 · PC John Neil passes the gateway in Buck's Row and sees no one (his evidence)
1888-08-31 · About 3.40 a.m.: carmen Charles Cross and Robert Paul find a woman lying in the gateway in Buck's Row and g
1888-08-31 · PC Neil finds Nichols on his beat and signals for help
1888-08-31 · Dr Henry Llewellyn examines her in Buck's Row and judges she has been dead no more than half an hour
1888-09-01 · Inquest on Nichols opens before Wynne E. Baxter at the Working Lads' Institute
1888-09-08 · Annie Chapman leaves 35 Dorset Street without her bed money (watchman John Evans)
1888-09-08 · John Richardson sits on the back steps of 29 Hanbury Street and sees no body (between about 4.45 and 4.50)
1888-09-08 · About 5.20 a.m.: Albert Cadosch, next door at No. 27, hears a voice say 'No' and, minutes later, something
1888-09-08 · Elizabeth Long sees a woman she later identifies as Chapman talking with a man outside No. 29 ('about 5:30'
1888-09-08 · Shortly before 6 a.m.: John Davis, a lodger, finds Chapman's body in the back yard of 29 Hanbury Street
1888-09-08 · Dr George Bagster Phillips arrives and estimates she has been dead at least two hours
1888-09-10 · John Pizer, known as 'Leather Apron', arrested; he is later cleared and gives evidence at the Chapman inque
1888-09-15 · Warren puts Chief Inspector Donald Swanson in overall charge of the Metropolitan Police investigation
1888-09-22 · Nichols inquest: verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown
1888-09-25 · Date written on the 'Dear Boss' letter signed 'Jack the Ripper'
1888-09-26 · Chapman inquest: verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown
1888-09-27 · The Central News Agency receives the 'Dear Boss' letter
1888-09-29 · The agency sends the letter to Scotland Yard, noting it had been 'treated as a joke'
1888-09-29 · Catherine Eddowes brought into Bishopsgate police station drunk and held in a cell
1888-09-29 · William Marshall sees a woman he identifies as Stride with a man in Berner Street ('about a quarter to 12')
1888-09-30 · PC William Smith sees Stride with a man carrying a parcel in Berner Street ('about half-past 12 or 12:35')
1888-09-30 · Israel Schwartz sees a man throw a woman down in the gateway of Dutfield's Yard (police version)
1888-09-30 · James Brown sees a woman he is almost certain is Stride with a man at the Fairclough Street corner
1888-09-30 · Louis Diemschutz drives into Dutfield's Yard and finds Elizabeth Stride
1888-09-30 · Eddowes released from Bishopsgate police station after giving the name Mary Ann Kelly
1888-09-30 · PC Edward Watkins passes through Mitre Square and sees no one
1888-09-30 · Joseph Lawende, Joseph Levy and Harry Harris see a man and a woman at the corner of Church Passage, Duke St
1888-09-30 · PC Watkins finds Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square
1888-09-30 · PC Alfred Long passes the Goulston Street passage; the apron piece is not there
1888-09-30 · PC Long finds the apron piece and the chalk writing in Goulston Street
1888-09-30 · The Goulston Street writing is rubbed out on Warren's decision ('half-past 5, or thereabouts')
1888-10-01 · The 'Saucy Jacky' postcard (postmarked 1 October) is received; the Daily Telegraph prints the 'Dear Boss' l
1888-10-01 · The Star prints its version of Israel Schwartz's account, saying it is 'not wholly accepted'
1888-10-04 · Inquest on Eddowes opens before the City Coroner, S. F. Langham
1888-10-10 · Warren writes to the Home Office that he thinks the 'Dear Boss' letter a hoax (secondary quotation)
1888-10-11 · Eddowes inquest: verdict of wilful murder by some person unknown
1888-10-16 · Shortly after 5 p.m.: George Lusk receives a box containing half a kidney and the 'From Hell' letter
1888-10-19 · The Times reports Dr Openshaw's supposed findings on the kidney; the same day Openshaw tells the Star he ca
1888-10-19 · Chief Inspector Swanson's report on the Stride case records Schwartz's statement and the word 'Lipski'
1888-10-23 · Stride inquest: verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown
1888-11-01 · Inspector Abberline reports that no one named Lipski can be traced and that the word was an insult to Jews
1888-11-06 · Warren reports to the Home Office on why he had the Goulston Street writing erased, enclosing a copy
1888-11-08 · Sir Charles Warren tenders his resignation as Commissioner
1888-11-08 · Mary Ann Cox sees Mary Jane Kelly, drunk, going into her room with a short, stout man with a blotchy face
1888-11-09 · George Hutchinson sees Kelly with a well-dressed man near Thrawl Street and follows them to Miller's Court
1888-11-09 · About 3.30 to 4 a.m.: Elizabeth Prater and Sarah Lewis hear a woman cry 'murder' in or near Miller's Court
1888-11-09 · Between 8 and 8.30 a.m.: Caroline Maxwell says she spoke to Kelly at the corner of Miller's Court
1888-11-09 · Thomas Bowyer, sent for the rent, looks through the broken window of Room 13 and sees Kelly's body
1888-11-09 · The door of Room 13 is forced on Superintendent Arnold's order
1888-11-10 · Dr Thomas Bond reports to Robert Anderson that all five murders were by the same hand
1888-11-12 · Kelly inquest at Shoreditch Town Hall closes after one day: verdict of wilful murder against some person or
1888-11-12 · George Hutchinson makes his statement at Commercial Street police station; Abberline believes him
1888-11-18 · Michael Ostrog sentenced in Paris to two years' imprisonment for theft (secondary source)
1888-12-31 · The body of Montague John Druitt is taken from the Thames at Chiswick
1889-01-02 · Inquest on Druitt at Chiswick finds suicide 'whilst of unsound mind'
1889-06-01 · June 1889: Melville Macnaghten joins the Metropolitan Police as Assistant Chief Constable, CID
1891-02-07 · Aaron Kosminski transferred from the Mile End Old Town workhouse to Colney Hatch Asylum (secondary source)
1894-02-13 · The Sun begins a series naming Thomas Cutbush as the Whitechapel murderer
1894-02-23 · Macnaghten's confidential memorandum: five victims only; Druitt, Kosminski and Ostrog named as more likely
Item · Mary Ann Nichols, Buck's Row, 31 August 1888: inquest evidence and verdict
Item · Annie Chapman, 29 Hanbury Street, 8 September 1888: inquest evidence, sightings and verdict
Item · Elizabeth Stride, Dutfield's Yard, Berner Street, 30 September 1888: inquest evidence, sightings and verdict
Item · Israel Schwartz's account of an assault at the gateway, 12.45 a.m., 30 September 1888: Swanson's report and the S
Item · Catherine Eddowes, Mitre Square, 30 September 1888: inquest evidence, the Church Passage sighting and verdict
Item · The apron piece and the chalk writing in Goulston Street, 30 September 1888, and why the writing was rubbed out
Item · The 'Dear Boss' letter (dated 25 September 1888) and the 'Saucy Jacky' postcard (1 October 1888), signed 'Jack th
Item · The 'From Hell' letter and half a kidney sent to George Lusk, 16 October 1888, and the doctors' conflicting opini
Item · Mary Jane Kelly, 13 Miller's Court, Dorset Street, 9 November 1888: the one-day inquest of 12 November
Item · George Hutchinson's account of Kelly and a well-dressed man at about 2 a.m. on 9 November 1888: police statement,
Item · Dr Thomas Bond's report to Robert Anderson on the five murders, 10 November 1888
Item · What the police and officials thought at the time, September to November 1888
Item · The Macnaghten memorandum, 23 February 1894: five victims only, and Druitt, Kosminski and Ostrog
Item · Macnaghten's three suspects in other records: the Druitt inquest (1889), Kosminski's asylum record, Ostrog's move
Item · Later claims: the 'Maybrick diary', the Sickert theory and the shawl DNA claims for Kosminski, with the main crit
Item · The 'Dear Boss' letter, dated 25 September 1888: both pages, signed 'Jack the Ripper'
Item · The 'From Hell' letter received by George Lusk on 16 October 1888 (facsimile of the lost original)
Item · The copy of the Goulston Street writing enclosed with Warren's report to the Home Office, 6 November 1888
Item · 'Blind-Man's Buff (As played by the Police.)': Punch cartoon, 22 September 1888
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