'Leather Apron' Or The Horrors Of Whitechapel- Hudson 1888

[Howard Brown]

[Howard Brown]

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[Howard Brown]

We go the extra mile as you know on JTRForums....

This is Samuel E. Hudson ( 1851-1918), born in Long Branch, New Jersey....and the compiler of the book you just read.
He lived on 18th & Chestnut, curiously just 12 blocks from where Tumblety had his digs years before the Whitechapel Murders....and 11 blocks from where I was born.
Sam had been a journalist, and a respected one to boot according to a 1879 newspaper article in the N.Y. Times, before compiling the Leather Apron book in 1888 at the age of 37.

The photo comes from a 1909 book Pennsylvania & Its Public Men (Hudson & Joseph)

[Howard Brown]

Hudson Obituary

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 9, 1918
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[Debra Arif]

Thanks for the photograph and background on Hudson, How and Nina.
He reminds me of someone.

[Howard Brown]

Would the initials be M.C., Debs ?

[Debra Arif]

Would the initials be M.C., Debs ?

Could be, How.

[Scott Nelson]

Mike Covell with a moustache?

[Chris G.]

Great thread, Howard and Nina!

M.C. might be M.C. Hammer.

[Tom_Wescott]

I need to take a fresh look at my copy of 'Leather Apron'. It's probably been over a decade.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. LOL to Scott Nelson. But then the book would have been called 'Was Leather Apron From Hull?; or, the Horrors from Hull: A Full Account of Hull and Its Hullish Hull Stuff'

[AP Wolf]

Not a man to dismiss lightly then, How? Old Sam had good pedigree. Good finds, mate.

[Howard Brown]

Thank you, A.P.
I learned that Casebook didn't have it available, as it had been for years, so I decided to bring the book back to life.
If anyone on Casebook wanted to copy and paste what I posted on this thread, they are more than welcome to use it.