Jack The Ripper’s Victims
by The Women.
Mary, was well known locally for being raucous and loud. When drunk she would sing Irish folk songs which lent her a certain charm, but she could also be abusive and sharp-tongued which led some people to name her “Black Mary.” On the morning of 9 November, a rent collector called at Mary’s lodgings at 13 Millers Court, Whitechapel. When no one answered the door he tried to let himself in but it was locked. So he looked through the window to see if anyone was home what he saw shocked him to the bone, and this was a man who was a veteran of the Indian Wars. Mary was stretched out naked on her bed her body having been quite literally carved open and gutted, the entrails scattered around the room. It is interesting that the youngest and prettiest of the Ripper’s victims was subject to the most ferocious and vile mutilations, especially the slicing up of her face. If any further evidence were required that the Whitechapel murders were the work of a sado-sexual psychopath, this should have provided it.
Even though these women now have their names etched in history forever as victims, I think they are worthy of being remembered as people. Some willingly used their bodies as a source of income, others had simply fallen on hard times. All were prey to alcohol abuse. We can never truly know or understand the trauma of their lives, the abandonment by husbands, the break up of families, the death of children, the pain of starvation, and the fear of penury. We can only guess at those things that drove them to drink and onto the streets. One thing we do know, however, is that they did not deserve or merit the terrible fate that befell them.*
*See also: Who was Jack the Ripper? You Decide
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Post Commentjharmon
On October 21, 2009 at 11:52 am
Nice article. Thanks for that.
kat
On December 19, 2010 at 2:26 am
What difference does it make about the victims’ appearances? What on earth does this have to do with the atrocity that was committed against these women, all of whom were trying to keep a roof over their heads? Liz Stride was said to be attractive as well. All the women got business, so they could not have been that repulsive. You act as though the older victims should have been the ones to be more viciously done over. The tone of this article is biased and the male writer regurgitates history with nothing new to offer as far as insight. Only insight as to a woman’s value as it pertains to how she looks. No scholarly value.