Jack The Ripper's Last Victim Mary Jane Kelly RARE Newspaper Account
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Jack The Ripper's Last Victim Mary Jane Kelly RARE Newspaper Account
Of the hundreds of newspaper articles on Jack the Ripper, very few offer anything like fresh content, but this report, printed in the Boston Herald the morning of the murder of Mary Jane Kelly and quickly forgotten, does just that. It was cabled to the newspaper by the London correspondent of the Herald, who was there at the murder scene right after the body was discovered and who subsequently interviewed Mary Jane's two neighbors, who offer new details as to her habits up until about 1AM that morning. Grisly reports of the condition of Mary Jane Kelly's body, which are very well known, are printed also. This was the Ripper's most notable and notorious murder, and was done in the room Mary Jane kept on street. "Fair Emma", as Mary Jane was known on the streets by this newspaper account, is talked about by her friend and fellow prostitute neighbor, "Mary Jane's Pal"who guzzles down a quart of beer in mortal fear whilst a hairless, emaciated cat prances about the room. "The pal" then falls asleep in front of the reporter, 'with her head on the wrong side of the bed.' The reporter then goes to police headquarters and interviews one of the forerunners of what would be called today a serial killer profiler in Dr Forbes Winslow, who offers a rather preposterous (to modern ears) explanation of the 'Whitechapel Butcher's' motives. The wretchedness, drunkenness and squalor of this section of London is brought into high relief by the reporter, who keenly observes the sights and sounds of this neighborhood the morning of the attack. Nowhere in America, he states, is such squalor as ever-present as it is in this Whitechapel district of East London.
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