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I didn't realise that 106 St George St was St George's chambers. Recently, when I was going through SGE settlement records ( I think I posted these somewhere?) St George's Chambers came up a lot as the last address of workhouse and infirmary inmates. A huge number in fact , perhaps because a large amount of strangers to the union, like sailors etc.often lodged there . And 106 comes up a large amount of times in the actual SGE workhouse infirmary registers.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head there, Gary. Well done.
Somewhere in the records there will a transfer of responsibility from Wandsworth to SGE union. Joseph Flemming had similar paperwork when he was judged to belong to Bethnal Green but had been sent to a London City asylum originally and the other Joseph Flemming was often released to and from prison from the Bethnal Green workhouse.Comment
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Debs,
What do you think about the coincidence of Foggy's 1901 occupation being recorded as a hawker of 'laces' and that of the 1888 attacker as being a hawker of 'lace'?
GaryComment
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What do people think about the similarity between the attack on Martha Tabram and that on the (as yet) unnamed Spitalfields Market victim? A blow to the head (?) followed by a series of stab wounds using a (presumably) small-bladed knife.Comment
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The specifics of the attack?
God forbid that a subject should ever be covered more than once in Ripperland.��
ANOTHER WOMAN STABBED
On Saturday a man suddenly attacked a woman in the Spitalfields Market while she was walking through. After felling her to the ground with a blow he began kicking her and pulled out a knife. Some people who had collected, having the terrible tragedy that had brought them there still fresh in their minds, on seeing the knife raised such piercing shrieks of "Murder!" that they reached the crowds in Hanbury Street. There was at once a rush for Commercial Street, where the markets are situate, as it was stated by some that there was another murder, and by others that the murderer has been arrested. Seeing the immense crowd swarming around him, the man who was the cause of the alarm made more furious efforts to reach the woman, from whom he had been separated by some persons who had interfered on her behalf. He, however, threw these on one side, fell upon the woman, knife in hand, and inflicted various stabs on her head, cut her forehead, neck and fingers before he was again pulled off. When he was again pulled off the woman lay motionless - the immense crowd took up the cry of "Murder", and the people who were on the streets raised cries of "Lynch him!" At this juncture the police arrived, arrested the man, and after a while had the woman conveyed to the Police Station in Commercial street, where she was examined by the divisional surgeon. She was found to be suffering from several wounds, but none of them were considered dangerous. She was subsequently removed to the London Hospital, where she was detained as an in-patient. Her assailant is described as a blind man who sells lace in the streets, and whom she lead about from place to place. The blind man is described as having a most ungovernable temper, and he was seen whilst the woman was leading him along to stab her several times in the neck. The affair occurred mid-way between Buck's row and Hanbury street, where the last two horrible murders have been committed.
If the attack had taken place on a tenement landing in the middle of the night, I wonder how different the result would have been from that on Martha Tabram.Comment
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Given the number of stabs the woman received and that none of her injuries were considered dangerous, isn't it likely that the knife used was small-bladed, a 'penknife', say, rather than a Bowie ditto?Comment
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"Seeing the immense crowd swarming around him" is an unfortunate way of putting it.Comment
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If (big if) we were certain that Fogarty was the Spitalfields attacker, and if we could be sure that he and Poll were an item in Aug., 1888, I reckon he'd be one of the best suspects for a WM ever.Comment
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Eh? What about Kate's kidney?Comment
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