Headline : The Ripper & Carrie Brown

[How Brown]

Rather ominous headline and lurid details here.
Notice the comment, "Her entrails were cut out and scattered about the room...."
A very early newspaper report on the murder.


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[How Brown]

Another lurid headline...

St. Paul Daily News
Friday, April 24, 1891
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[How Brown]

While digging, I found several perjorative adjectives used to describe Carrie.
"Depraved"..."lewd"..."dissolute"..."abandonded"...all within the first ten words of the article at hand.
One article mentioned that a suspect named Young was not "low" enough to have associated with Mrs. Brown.
Tragic.

This article appears at first to state that the Ripper is "relieved" to be working in New York.
Actually, it should say, believed...
Notice the mention of a "wretched creature".
The Milwaukee Journal
Friday, April 24, 1891
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[How Brown]

This headline might give one the impression that the "noted murderer" is in town for a lecture or seminar on the grisly art of murder.
Again...not a poor woman...not a poor victim....but an abandoned woman.

The Atchison Champion
Saturday, April 25, 1891
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[George Lorton]

She was a right game old girl whom the folks called Old Shakespear. I bet she did shake many a spear in her day. Although she won her nickname from quoting Shakespeare during drinking games. I think I am in love...:brick:

Interesting lady. I was googling her and finding bits and pieces about her...life after seeing a bit about her on "Finding Jack the Ripper" last night on NatGeo. Maybe JackTR did go to New City looking for love, well his twisted hate filled version of love anyways

[Stan Reid]

Unless you want to go way way out there, I guess we wind up the Ripper 120th anniversary in two days.