The police commissioner, General Charles Warren was about to face his largest challenge in trying to solve the Ripper murders (Eddleston 132). The first murder committed by Jack the Ripper was on August 31, 1888 in a side street in Whitechapel called Bucks Row. The victim was Mary Nichols; a forty-two year old prostitute was discovered at 3:40 a.m. with her throat slashed to the bone and several deep incisions in her abdomen (Colby-Newton 22).

The next victim was discovered on Saturday, September 8, 1888. Annie Chapman, known as “Dark Annie”, was a forty-seven year old alcoholic prostitute. She was killed in the backyard of a busy rooming house with evident savagery. She was strangled and then her th

The two following murders occurred on the same night. On September 30, 1888 Elizabeth Stride was found murdered in a passageway outside a Socialist club of Russians and Jews, yet nobody heard or saw anything (Eddleston 36). Her throat was slashed and she eventually bled to death. Soon the second murder was committed, only fifteen minutes after the previous one. Kate Conway was killed in Mitre Square, later her real name was discovered to be Catharine Eddowes. Both she and Elisabeth Stride were prostitutes in their mid forties. Catharine Eddowes was mutilated similarly to the others but her kidney and womb were taken by the killer (Eddleston 49).

Another suspect “the mad butcher” or Oswald Puckridge was a suspect for a brief period but was in an insane asylum when the last few murders occurred (Eddleston 234). Many Jews were suspected because the Jewish practices were not clear to the population of England and the murders were thought to be ritualistic (Eddleston 50). Also at one crime scene the words “The Jews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing”, were on the wall over the body in chalk. (Eddleston 50). The chief of police had the words removed as quickly as possible to prevent a riot. One German was even considered as suspect until it was discovered he was in jail during the crimes. Charles Ludwig was this German suspect who had odd behavior and carried razor knives (Eddleston 222). Some “Rip

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