April 1888
3 Emma Smith attackeras av tre personer och misshandlas kraftigt.
4 Emma Smith dör på London hospital av sina skador.
Augusti 1888
7. Martha Tabram mördas George Yard Buildings.
14. Henry Samuel Tabram identifierar Martha Tabram, hans fd fru.
28. envelope which would be found near the body of Annie Chapman on September 8th, is postmarked, ”London, 28 August, 1888.”
August 29, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor left for Danby Lodge, Grosmont, Yorkshire.
August 30, 1888 — Fire breaks out at the Shadwell Dry Dock and burns until late the next morning, which later helps to establish John Pizer’s innocence.
August 31, 1888 — Polly Nichols killed in Bucks Row
— Robert Anderson appointed Assistant Commissioner for Crime; selects Donald Swanson to head the case.
— L.P. Walter writes to the Home Office, requesting a reward be offered for the capture of the murderer. Request is denied by E. Leigh Pemberton.
SEPTEMBER 1888
September 1, 1888 — William Nichols identifies the body of his estranged wife, Polly Nichols.
— Coroner Wynne E. Baxter begins the inquest into the murder of Polly Nichols at the Whitechapel Working Lads’ Institute — adjourned until the 3rd.
— Mrs. Sarah Colwell claims to have seen spots of blood in Brady Street, adding to the theory that Nichols was killed elsewhere. (Visade sig vara stearin från ett ljus)
September 3, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Polly Nichols reconvened. Adjourned until the 17th.
September 4, 1888 — The first press reports of a man named ’Leather Apron’ appear.
September 6, 1888 — Polly Nichols is buried at Little Ilford Cemetery.
September 7, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor travelled to Cavalry Barracks in York.
— First official mention of John Pizer as ’Leather Apron.’ Lived at 22 Mulburry street with his family. In a letter to Scotland yard, the say the Leather aprons namn is Jack Pizer.
September 8, 1888 — Annie Chapman killed in Hanbury Street.
— Amelia Palmer identifies Annie’s body at 11:30 am.
— Robert Anderson leaves for Switzerland on sick leave.
— Thomas Ede sees Henry James outside The Forrester’s Arms, in possession of a large knife.
— Mrs. Fiddymont sees suspicious bloodstained man in the Prince Albert.
September 9, 1888 — Miss Lyons claims to have had a drink with a man she suspected to be ’Leather Apron’ at the Queen’s Head pub.
— John Evans and Mr. Fountain Smith both identify Annie Chapman’s body.
Efter moraset är det stora folkmassor på Hanbury Street och hatet mot judar växer ”down with the jews, no englishman did this” Tidningen The start skriver mycket om att det är en jude som är leather apron.
September 10, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor returned to London from York.
— Samuel Montagu offers a £100 reward for the capture of the murderer.
— George Lusk elected president of The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
— John Pizer arrested as ’Leather Apron.’ Visar alibi som håller till båda morden. När Chapman blev mördad var han hemma och gömd tillsammans med sin familj – eftersom rädslan att bli lynchad var stor. Han hade varit hemma de senaste dagarna och mer eller mindre väntat på att polisen skulle komma. Polisen Thick visste att Pizer kallades leather apron och han hade känt honom under 18 år. Men folk brydde sig inte att prostituerade blev rånade.
September 11, 1888 — Dr. Cowan and Dr. Crabb inform police that they believe Jacob Issenscmid to be the Ripper.
September 12, 1888 — Coroner Wynne E. Baxter begins the inquest into murder of Annie Chapman at the Whitechapel Working Lads’ Institute — adjouned until the 13th.
— Inspector Joseph Luniss Chandler is quoted in the Star as saying the ’bloodstains’ found on the fence in the yard of 25 Hanbury Street were simply urine stains.
— Mrs. Darrell identifies the body of Annie Chapman.
— Laura Sickings discovers ’bloodstains’ on the fence in her yard at 25 Hanbury Street, later said to be urine stains.
September 13, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Annie Chapman reconvened. Adjourned until the 14th.
— Edward McKenna is arrested in connection with the Ripper murders, but is released soon after.
September 14, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Annie Chapman reconvened. Adjourned until the 19th.
— Annie Chapman is buried at Manor Park Cemetary.
September 16, 1888 — B. Harris of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee requests that the Home Secretary add to the reward money offered.
September 17, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Polly Nichols reconvened. Adjourned until the 23rd.
— Jacob Issenschmid confined to Fairfield Row Asylum, Bow.
September 18, 1888 — Charles Ludwig threatens Elizabeth Burns with a knife near the Minories, and soon after threatens Alexander Freinberg at a coffee stall, leading to his arrest.
September 19, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Annie Chapman reconvened. Dr. Philips suggests the uterus of the woman might have been removed for sale to a medical student who had been inquiring about obtaining such specimens. The Inquest was adjourned until the 26th.
— Inspector Abberline reports that Issenschmid was the man seen by Mrs. Fiddymont.
September 23, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Polly Nichols completed.
September 26, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Annie Chapman completed.
September 27, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor leaves for Abergeldie, Scotland.
— Catherine Eddowes and John Kelly return to London, having been hop-picking all month.
— The ’Dear Boss’ letter is received at the Central News Agency, the first to use the name ’Jack the Ripper.’
September 29, 1888 — Catherine Eddowes arrested at 8.45 pm for public drunkenness by Sergeant James Byfield.
September 30, 1888 — Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes killed at 1:00 and 1:45 am, respectively.
— Prince Albert Victor dines with Queen Victoria in Abergeldie, Scotland.
— Whitechapel Vigilance Committee sends letter to the Home Office requesting a reward be officially offered. Request denied.
— Diary entry in the Swedish Church Parish Register records the death of Stride, possibly ”murdered by Jack the Ripper?” If indeed written on the 30th September, this is the earliest known use of the name ”Jack the Ripper.”
OCTOBER 1888
October 1, 1888 — Coroner Wynne E. Baxter begins inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride at the Vestry Hall, Cable Street. Adjourned until the 2nd.
— The morning issue of the Daily News first prints the text of the Dear Boss letter.
— Thomas Coram finds a bloodstained knife in Whitechapel Road, with a blade of about 9 inches.
— The Financial News contributes £300 toward a reward for the capture of the murderer.
— Lord Mayor offers £500 reward.
— Sir Alfred Kirby offers £100 reward and 50 militia men to help apprehend the criminal. Offer declined.
— Queen Victoria telephones the Home Office at 3:30 pm and expresses her shock at the murders.
— The ’Saucy Jacky’ postcard is received at the Central News Agency.
— Michael Kidney arrives drunk at Leman Street Police Station, blaming the PC on duty at the time of Stride’s murder, and asking to speak with a detective.
— The Star prints the text of the Saucy Jacky postcard in the evening edition.
— The first of many imitative hoax letters is received, with the word ”Boss” hastily inserted in play of ”The City Police.”
October 2, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride reconvened. Adjourned until the 3rd.
— George Lusk sends petition to the Home Office requesting a reward by offered by the police.
— Clairvoyant Robert James Lees offers his psychic assistance to the police, but is denounced as a fool.
— Two private detectives, Grand and Batchelor, find a grape stalk in the drain near the spot where Elizabeth Stride’s body was found.
October 3, 1888 — Unidentified trunk of a woman discovered in Whitehall.
— Inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride reconvened. Adjourned until the 5th.
— Clairvoyant Robert James Lees offers his psychic assistance to the police, but his offer is refused.
October 3, 1888 — Grand and Batchelor take Matthew Packer to view the body of Catharine Eddowes, implying that it is Elizabeth Stride in order to evaluate his testimony. Packer passes the test, saying he does not recognize the body.
October 4, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Catharine Eddowes opened by Coroner Langham at the Golden Lane Mortuary.
— Clairvoyant Robert James Lees offers his psychic assistance to Scotland Yard, who respectfully decline.
— Matthew Packer views the body of Elizabeth Stride and confirms it as the woman he saw on the night of the double murders.
— Facsimiles of the Dear Boss and Saucy Jacky letters first published in the Evening Standard.
October 5, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride reconvened. Adjourned until the 23rd.
October 6, 1888 — Elizabeth Stride buried at East London Cemetery.
October 7, 1888 — George Lusk writes the Home Office, requesting that a pardon be granted for the murderer’s accomplice(s), in the hopes that these accomplices would reveal his identity.
October 8, 1888 — Catharine Eddowes is buried at Little Ilford.
October 9, 1888 — Police test out the bloodhounds Barnaby and Burgho, successfully, at Regent’s Park.
— Sir Charles Warren replies affirmatively to Lusk’s request of a pardon, but the idea is struck down by Matthews.
October 10, 1888 — The bloodhounds are tested again, this time personally by Sir Charles Warren in Hyde Park. They were not successful this time, however, and this incident was quite an embarrassment for Warren.
October 11, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Catharine Eddowes completed.
October 12, 1888 — E.W. Bonham, from Boulogne, brings suspect John Langan to the attention of the Home Office
October 16, 1888 — John Langan’s innocence verified by police.
— George Lusk receives a package including the ”From Hell” letter and half a kidney, allededly from the body of Catharine Eddowes.
October 21, 1888 — Maria Coroner charged with hoaxing several ”Jack the Ripper letters” claiming the murderer would claim his next victim in Bradford.
October 23, 1888 — Inquest into the murder of Elizabeth Stride completed.
October 30, 1888 — Joseph Barnett and Mary Kelly quarrel — Barnett leaves their room at 13 Miller’s Court.
NOVEMBER 1888
November 1, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor arrives in London from York.
November 2, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor leaves for Sandringham.
November 7, 1888 — Francis Tumblety arrested in London on charges of gross indecency.
November 9, 1888 — Mary Kelly killed in Miller’s Court.
— Sir Charles Warren resigns.
November 10, 1888 — Pardon offered to ”anyone other than the murderer” by the Home Office.
November 11, 1888 — Dr. William Holt, with his face blackened and wearing spectacles, frightens a woman outside of George Yard and is attacked by a mob soon after.
November 12, 1888 — Prince Albert Victor returns to London from Sandringham.
— The inquest into the murder of Mary Jeanette Kelly, presided over by Coroner Roderick Macdonald, begins and concludes in one day.
— Dr. William Holt is released from police custody, having explained that he was tracking down the murderer using various disguises.
— George Hutchinson gives police his description of a suspicious man he saw with Kelly on the night of her murder (after the inquest had finished).
November 13, 1888 — Edward Knight Larkins tells police of a man named Antoni Pricha who resembled Hutchinson’s description.
November 15, 1888 — Wolf Levisohn accosted by two prostitutes who shouted ”You are Jack the Ripper!” after he refused to accept their solicitations.
November 17, 1888 — Nikaner Benelius, a Swedish man, is arrested by P.C. Imhoff for breaking into Harriet Rowe’s house and staring at her silently with an impudent grin. He was briefly suspected of being the Ripper but was later cleared of all charges.
November 19, 1888 — Edward Buchan, not suspected as Jack the Ripper until a century later, commits suicide.
— Mary Jeanette Kelly is buried at Leytonstone Roman Catholic Cemetary; no family members attend.
November 20, 1888 — Annie Farmer allegedly attacked by Jack the Ripper.
November 24, 1888 — Francis Tumblety flees to France, and then to America under the name ’Frank Townshend.’
November 30, 1888 — Montague Druitt dismissed from his position at a school in Blackheath.
DECEMBER 1888
Inspector Walter Andrews sent to New York to investigate an unnamed possible Ripper suspect.
December 1, 1888 — Probable date of Montague John Druitt’s suicide.
December 6, 1888 — Joseph Isaacs arrested, believed by the press to have been Jack the Ripper, but charged only with stealing a watch.
December 7, 1888 — David Cohen arrested and placed in Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary.
December 11, 1888 — William Druitt hears of his brother Montague’s disappearance.
December 20, 1888 — Rose Mylett killed in Clarke’s Yard.
December 21, 1888 — David Cohen transfered to Colney Hatch Asylum.
— Coroner Wynne E. Baxter begins the inquest into the murder of Rose Mylett in Poplar Coroner’s Court. Adjourned until January 3rd.
December 24, 1888 — Sir Melville Macnaghten’s father dies.
December 28, 1888 — David Cohen separated from his fellow patients, listed as dangerous and ’physically ill.’
December 31, 1888 — The body of Montague Druitt discovered floating in the Thames.