1889 In The News

[Howard Brown]

Jerry Dunlop located this one by William Thackeray...refers to a Guzzling Jimmy and a Gorging Jack..

HERE were three sailors of Bristol City
Who took a boat and went to sea,
But first with beef and captain's biscuits,
And pickled pork they loaded she.

There was a gorging Jack, and guzzling Jimmy,
And the youngest he was little Billee.
Now when they'd got as far as the Equator,
They'd nothing left but one split pea.

Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
"I am extremely hungaree."
To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy,
"We've nothing left, us must eat we."

Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,
"With one another we shouldn't agree!
There's little Bill, he's young and tender,
We're old and tough, so let's eat he."

"O Billy! we're going to kill and eat you,
So undo the button of your chemie."
When Bill received this information,
He used his pocket-handkerchief.

"First let me say my catechism,
Which my poor mother taught me."
"Make haste! make haste!" says guzzling Jimmy,
While Jack pulled on his snicker-snee.

Then Bill went up to the main-top-gallant-mast,
And down he fell on his bended knee,
He scarce had come to the Twelfth Commandment
When up he jumps--"There's land I see!"

"Jerusalem and Madagascar,
And North and South Amerikee,
There's the British flag a-riding at anchor,
With Admiral Napier, K.C.B."

So when they got aboard of the Admiral's,
He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmee,
But as for little Bill, he made him
The captain of a Seventy-three.

Punch or the London Charivari, March 5, 1887

https://books.google.com/books?id=ky...london&f=false

[Jerry Dunlop]

Good one JD ! Thanks !

Thanks How,

The article mentions two men who were being tailed as ripper suspects as late as September 1889. I wonder how many police officials, doctors etc. truly believed Mary Jane Kelly was the last victim?

[Howard Brown]

Good one JD ! Thanks !

[Jerry Dunlop]

The Story of "Guzzling Jim"

Howard mentioned Guzzling Jim in post #171 of this thread. I found a lengthy news clip about GJ. He was tracked for eighteen months. Some of the clipping is unreadable but you can get the idea.

London Evening News And Post September 13, 1889

[Howard Brown]

This guy had a hard head and a soft butt it seems.
Arrested three times...I wonder if he got in trouble again down the road.

Lloyd's Weekly
August 11,1889

[Howard Brown]

I could think of a few other nom de drunks I'd use if I was three sheets to the wind...but the name of the Ripper was the one preferred by 5 outta 6 drunks


Hornsey & Middlesex Messenger
January 18,1889
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[Howard Brown]

Something from a paper we here on the Forums have seldom used.
Notice the remarks about the odor emanating from the poor woman's torso.
The perp in the Pinchin Street Torso crime was pretty lucky no one smelled him & his ill-gotten load,eh ?


The Guardian
September 11,1889
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[Howard Brown]

Courier and Middlesex Counties Courier Gazette
| London, Middlesex | Saturday, June 15, 1889 | Page 2








The name Elizabeth Roberts caught my eye.
Wasn't this the name of the woman who was murdered by her sister ( Kate Marshall ) in 1898 in Dorset Street ??

[Howard Brown]

That covers most of what one might find ( at least in the source I used) using only 1 search term word...."Ripper"...for the year 1889. From William Bury all the way to Frederick Brett on the last day of the year.

Up next, 1890 In The News...again using the same single search term.

[Howard Brown]

Frederick Brett : Only Acting Jack The Ripper

Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser
December 31, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

M.Goron, Prefect of Paris Police

Pall Mall Gazette
December 31, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Harry Denker

Birmingham Daily Post
December 30, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Mysterious Tragedy At Sunderland

Another murder...another instance of the Ripper-at-work rumors in circulation.

North-Eastern Daily Gazette
December 26, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Outrage In Sheppy

Reynolds's Newspaper
December 22, 1889
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[Howard Brown]

Birmingham Daily Post
December 19, 1889
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