SirRobertAnderson
08-08-2009, 11:39 AM
Was the 'Ripper' spotted in Roath?
RETRO REPORT November, 1888
How we covered...(Features).
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
(Nov 12, 2008): p17. (285 words)
Byline: Edited by Tony Woolway
On Sunday morning the inhabitants of the poorer localities of Roath, Cardiff, were thrown into a state of unwanted excitement by a rumour, which soon became current everywhere in the district that a man answering to the description of "Jack the Ripper" had visited a shop in Roath.
In a short time the police got wind of the rumour, and making inquiries found that between ten and eleven o'clock that morning a strange looking man, about 5ft 10in, in height, with a black leather bag in his hand, had entered the shop of Mr Hardell, hairdresser, Broadway, and after glancing suspiciously at the customers present, said he wanted a shave.
The room at the time was filled with working men, who, while waiting their turn were freely discussing the latest tragedy in Whitechapel, in the course of which, one of the company remarked that he could not for the life of him see how a man could cut a woman's throat and afterwards mutilate a body without his clothes becoming bespattered with the blood of his victim.
The suspicious-looking stranger, who up to this time had been sitting listlessly on the seat, suddenly jumped up in an excited manner and said he was a professional butcher, and could with ease cut eitheraman or woman's throat without a speck of blood getting on his clothes.
He then volunteered the information that he had arrived from London, and that he was then off to Newport, and left the shop as strangely as he had entered.
During the day the police made inquiries for a man answering the description given by several who were in the shop, including Mr Hardell, but without result.
Source Citation:"Was the 'Ripper' spotted in Roath? RETRO REPORT November, 1888 How we covered...(Features)." Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) (Nov 12, 2008): 17. Custom Newspapers. Gale. New York Public Library. 8 Aug. 2009
RETRO REPORT November, 1888
How we covered...(Features).
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
(Nov 12, 2008): p17. (285 words)
Byline: Edited by Tony Woolway
On Sunday morning the inhabitants of the poorer localities of Roath, Cardiff, were thrown into a state of unwanted excitement by a rumour, which soon became current everywhere in the district that a man answering to the description of "Jack the Ripper" had visited a shop in Roath.
In a short time the police got wind of the rumour, and making inquiries found that between ten and eleven o'clock that morning a strange looking man, about 5ft 10in, in height, with a black leather bag in his hand, had entered the shop of Mr Hardell, hairdresser, Broadway, and after glancing suspiciously at the customers present, said he wanted a shave.
The room at the time was filled with working men, who, while waiting their turn were freely discussing the latest tragedy in Whitechapel, in the course of which, one of the company remarked that he could not for the life of him see how a man could cut a woman's throat and afterwards mutilate a body without his clothes becoming bespattered with the blood of his victim.
The suspicious-looking stranger, who up to this time had been sitting listlessly on the seat, suddenly jumped up in an excited manner and said he was a professional butcher, and could with ease cut eitheraman or woman's throat without a speck of blood getting on his clothes.
He then volunteered the information that he had arrived from London, and that he was then off to Newport, and left the shop as strangely as he had entered.
During the day the police made inquiries for a man answering the description given by several who were in the shop, including Mr Hardell, but without result.
Source Citation:"Was the 'Ripper' spotted in Roath? RETRO REPORT November, 1888 How we covered...(Features)." Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) (Nov 12, 2008): 17. Custom Newspapers. Gale. New York Public Library. 8 Aug. 2009