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Drunks came at one another with knives and broken bottles
Still, even in the East End, there was usually motive for murder
Robbery Hate, jealousy, passion
Whores soust 1888, London was already prey to a nue events
Several female torsos had been discovered in the Tha rape by three enitals by a blunt object
To their trade had been threatened byafter the Bank Holiday of August 6, 1888, the body of a woely stabbed thirty-nine times
There was no real panic at that point The murder made the papers; she wasn’t identified at first except as a woht, with black hair and a round face-- apparently belonging to the lowest classes The newspapers did comment on the way that she had been
"butchered," and that a sense of insecurity was being felt She was soon identified as Martha Tabru the streets with a soldier, soldiers were paraded before possible witnesses, all to no avail
Peter was deeply disturbed by thehiht, that she wouldn’t be soliciting soldiers while helping hiuust 31, the body of another woman was found She was identified within twenty-four hours as being Mary Ann or-- as she was known to her friends-- Polly Nichols Her throat had been violently slashed, and worse She had been savagely mutilated Her throat had been slit so that her head was nearly detached, and her stomach had been ripped open, her intestines exposed
Police and surgeons argued; newspapers speculated Most believed that this new h the victi to the depths of doss houses, prostituting for the few coins to buy a bed in a public house, and sos on liquor several tiht
Peter was again worried about Megan acco him on his rounds into the dark underbelly of the East End "There is such wretched horror there!" he insisted
Megan again insisted that she would be fine; she was assisting a doctor, not prostituting Laura argued with her husband; Megan insisted that Peter hi with her--ether
Peter worked the doss houses, warning the woan to find the ic The dirty, mist laden streets of the East End had created some fast friendships and she learned about the murder victims Once upon a time, Polly had been respectably e had failed
Some bla her last confinement; her husband blamed it on her penchant for drink, and claimed that she had deserted hi at workhouses, returning ho on tobefore her death, she had taken work as a domestic servant, and she had tried toto her father that she was eht she died, Polly had been pathetically proud of her new black bonnet She had been cheerful despite her alcoholism and the sad state of her life, and those friends she had made on the streets had been very fond of her
Froument as to whether the same killer had done in both Martha and Polly They were both es and problems with alcohol They were poor, pathetic creatures, who prostituted on the streets
With Polly’s death, political upheaval began, people riding hard on the police, and the politics of the Ho hard under attack as well The respectable citizens of Victorian England began to screa must be done, and the lives of many who had been like dust swept under a carpet were suddenly exposed
Megan was passionate about her ith Peter There were so ht be turned to a better life with just a little nudge The killer made it all the more important that they not desert a people who needed all the charity that they could get
On Saturday, September 8, the body of Annie Chapan learned fro wo, that Annie was perhaps the most pathetic victim so far
She’d married a coachman named John Chapman, and borne three children Her son was born a cripple Her precious Ee of twelve Her second daughter ith a traveling troupe or circus in France, and her boy was taken into the care of a charitable school Her ave her a sements with other men, she was shattered by the news, and was left destitute
Making her way in the East End
Until she met her killer
The papers talked of a man named "Leather Apron," a slipper maker who bullied prostitutes with a knife Leather Apron could not be found
Peter grewhours, Megan found out why "Have you noticed that you haven’t seen me when these vicious crian stared at hi if I haven’t lostattracts my attention while on the streets, or even inside, and suddenly, I’ve blacked out again I awaken, in a different place, and don’t knohere I am, or where I’ve been"
"But, Peter--"
"The first murder, I was here alone The second ton house, if you’ll recall, while I said I was going to see to old Mr Throgmorton below
The thirdto educate the whores"
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