East End Newspapers, odds and ends

[Rob Clack]

Some odds and ends from local east end newspapers I got today.

The Spitalfields Vigilance Committee from 'The Eastern Post, Saturday 5 January 1889'


Suspicious death in Millers Court, from 'The Eastern Post, Saturday 23 February 1895'


A couple of articles on the retirement of Inspector Helson.

'The Eastern Argus, Saturday 16 February 1895'



'The Eastern Argus, Saturday 6 April 1895'



Rob

[Stephen Thomas]

Some odds and ends from local east end newspapers I got today.

Suspicious death in Millers Court, from 'The Eastern Post, Saturday 23 February 1895'
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Rob or Howard

There wouldn't be anything in the IPN about this murder would there?

Looks to me that the missus dunnit.

[Rob Clack]

Hi Stephen,

I haven't been able to find a mention of it in any other newspaper. If I find anything more about it I'll post it.

Just so people know, number 6 Millers Court would be the last house on the left. Top one I believe.

Rob

[Howard Brown]

ST:

Neither have I located anything...still hunting over here amigo.
By the way, in February of 1895, the IPN began featuring a sports page on page 2.

[Howard Brown]

Rob:

Well spotted and a fine find. One more for the list of Miller's Court incidents.
I've come up empty handed...

P.S. That's Det.Sgt. Eli Caunter, not Counter, as mentioned in the article.

[Stephen Thomas]

Just so people know, number 6 Millers Court would be the last house on the left. Top one I believe.

Hi Rob

Yes the top room in the last cottage on the left.

This makes four murders in Millers Court between 1888 and 1909.

And here was me thinking that three was excessive.

[Howard Brown]

ST:

The most deadly cul de sac on Earth, that's for sure...

[Phil Carter]

ST:

Neither have I located anything...still hunting over here amigo.
By the way, in February of 1895, the IPN began featuring a sports page on page 2.

Hello How,

Care of Ancestry... here's the entry on William Burchell from the Whitechapel Union Infirmary.

It states..

Medical Officer of the Infirmary
Herbert Larder

Date of death
10th February 1895

Name
Burchell William

Age
37

Cause of death
Inquest. Open verdict. Death from cerebral abscess.



best wishes

Phil

[Howard Brown]

Thanks for that Phil....

[Stephen Thomas]

Care of Ancestry... here's the entry on William Burchell from the Whitechapel Union Infirmary.

Yes, good work Phil. This mainly verifies the the story that Rob found and I'm surprised that it seems not to have found its way into other publications. It seems to me, given her disappearance, that the 'wife' whacked him with the poker but so as not to incriminate her, Burchell made up the story of 'some men' having done it.

[Rob Clack]

These are some articles and pages from 'The Daily Chronicle' and 'The Police Gazette', NOT East End Newspapers, but I thought I'd put them here.

The Daily Chronicle, Thursday 4 October 1888


The Daily Chronicle, Tuesday 2 October 1888


The Police Gazette, Friday 12 October 1888


The Police Gazette, Friday 19 October 1888


Rob

[Howard Brown]

Heh heh....Arthur Dutfield writes a letter to the press disassociating his business from the Yard....and voila !... within a year the Pinchin Street Torso winds up on the same street as his relocated business !
It makes you wonder if he started to think that someone was following him around leaving a trail of corpses....

[Helena Wojtczak]

This makes four murders in Millers Court between 1888 and 1909.

And here was me thinking that three was excessive.

Hi Stephen

Do we have any stats, even a rough idea, if the number of murders in the east end generally before and after the ripper murders?

Helena

[Stephen Thomas]

Do we have any stats, even a rough idea, of the number of murders in the east end generally before and after the ripper murders?

Colin Roberts posted some brilliant work here on this subject complete with graphs but I can't find it at the moment.

[Rob Clack]

Not an East End Newspaper. Ths is from 'The Holborn and Finsbury Guardian' Friday 23 October 1908.

Nothing exciting but it is the earliest (that I know of) mention of the crime scenes forming a cross.




Rob