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THREE- MEN HANGED. Robert West, 45, a travel/lag showman. and Frederick Brett, 39, railway labourer, were ..

... making too free with his fellow workmen. Olbaillganestrid be coolly said, I have done it, and II be I was only acting Jack the Ripper.* Breit kw elmembitilted considerable coolness since his He has relished his food and slept . Wag a Roman Catholic, he ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1890
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE MATLOCK TRAGEDY

... created a very painful scene. For some time the deceased had kept to the house, owing, it is said, to her having received Jack the Ripper I letters. The inquest was opened on Saturday morning before Mr. Sydney Taylor, c-ainty coroner at Balmoral, the house ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1891
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1552 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES

... East Africa. In a third letter he said, Dear friend, on Sunday next but one Surrey-street Chapel is to be blown up by Jack the Ripper.' Stay away, friend, in case you want to save one soul from the tortures of hell-fire. Mr. Wilson, the defendant's solicitor ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1590 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MISOELLANEOUS ITEMS

... the Court was 38 per cent , and of arrears 77 per cent. A MexicaN JAi. TEE —A man named Guerrero, known as the Mexican Jack the Ripper. has been convicted at Mexico of eight murders and 14 criminal assaults on women. He was sentenced to death. LADS : And ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1890
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1589 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WIGTON ADVERTISER. GARDENING FOR THE WEEK,

... several silly and absurd letters that have been sent to local newspapers and police-stations about the signature of Jack the Ripper. The vagueness of the report led to all sorts of sensational stories, but all agreed in stating that a murder had been ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2256 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Bs A. G. GREENWOOD

... errant studbox. When I had emerged she had packed it. Yet it was ridiculous to suspect her. As well, as wisely, suspect Jack the Ripper of wearing • Royal Humane Society medal. But it was nothing to joke about. I stood, as I say, skinned. r stood—and I use ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1930
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2448 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HAWARDEN ESTATE

... aisuesd by six of the most atredene sea within the Malts of tide sky. The murderer or murderers have rankhed as quickly as Jack the Ripper, and no traces have been left for identification. All of the victims were women of the character of those who met their ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2641 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GUY FAWKES' DAY

... Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand, are excepted. Both at the East-end and in South London atrocious presentments of Jack the Ripper, with demoniacal faceand horns to match, were hawked about on barrows, and even about these hideous effigies ghastly ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2777 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WIGTON ADVERTISER

... of the horrible sort which have become in popular parlance associated with the appellation of the mysterious monster Jack the Ripper had taken place. It can scarcely be said that a repetition of these awful occurrences excites the (ceiling akin to ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1889
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3140 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE D.S.O

... The first of these was the killing, under circumstances of well-nigh inconceivable ferocity, of Mary Jane Kelly by Jack the Ripper. This took place on November 9, Me& Some years later a poor working woman took in to share her room a sister who had ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3262 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... been arrested at Bradford for writing letters to the chief constable and a Bradford newspaper, purporting to be from Jack the Ripper. She rays she wanted to make a sensation. In her biome at her lodgings were found exact copies of the two letters which ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1888
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3403 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... appears there is in the town a journalists' club, which goes by the name of the Whitechapel Club, and is called after Jack the Ripper. The tone of this club is hopelessly vulgar, says Mr. Shorter. He thinks someone will be a heavy loser by the Show. - ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1893
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3202 | Page: 3 | Tags: none