1889 In The News

[Howard Brown]

Here's a case of some yahoo who certainly talked the talk,but fortunately, he turned out to be a barking,not biting,dog of a son.

Derby Mercury
April 10, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

The April 11th,1889 Pall Mall Gazette article which mentions Johann Kerslo ( not Kelso)...a German pamphleteer who was sentenced to two weeks in jail for distributing a pamphlet entitled, The Latest Atrocities of Jack The Ripper, in Stuttgart.

Here his surname is different.
Belfast News-Letter
April 11, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

With judges like this, its surprising that more murders weren't committed.


Dundee Courier & Argus
April 12, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Third story of the year involving a Jack The Ripper in the New World ( Jamaica,Nicaragua,or near Honduras/Belize)

Huddersfield Daily Chronicle
April 17, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

By the time this old bastard got out of jail, the kid's hand still hadn't healed.

Birmingham Daily Post
April 16, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Epidemics Of Murder

Lloyd's Weekly
April 21,1889
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[Howard Brown]

I took a look around here and thought to myself...what would be a great way of starting a Saturday off ? ....and the first thing that popped up was an execution.

I'm working on a newspaper report of the April 1889 execution of William Bury....article to follow.

[Howard Brown]

The Execution of W.H.Bury from an April 25th edition of the Dundee Courier.....

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=117048&posted=1#post117048

[Howard Brown]

Here's an example of a man committing suicide,supposedly or actually as a result of the impact of the Ripper. We do have reports of women committing suicide...and this may be the first report to appear in print ( at least) of a man doing that to themselves.

North-Eastern Daily Gazette
April 27, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Another tragic demise, with the mention of Mr. You Know Who....

Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser
April 30, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

May 1889

May starts off with warm breezes,a spring like atmosphere,and a loveletter to a sweetheart...from a very ignoble Mr. Noble.

Derby Mercury
May 1, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

National Thought Police

Reynolds's Newspaper
May 5, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Sort of kinky one here...

...hubby playing "Jack The Ripper" in the dead of night, while the unfaithful and adventurous wife gets into a three way with a neighbor and his galpal.

Blackburn Standard and Weekly Express
May 11, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Illustrated Police News
May 11, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Dundee Courier & Argus
May 16, 1889
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