They All Love Jack

by Bruce Robinson

  9. Lloyd’s Weekly, Sunday, 30 September 1888

  10. A Savage Club Souvenir, privately printed, 1916 (p.83)

  11. Ibid. (p.67). It’s worth noting that Thomas Catling and George Sims (who wrote of ‘The Firm of Assassins’) were socially and Masonically close. See My Life’s Pilgrimage, by Thomas Catling (p.287)

  12. The Freemason, 7 February 1891 (p.71)

  13. The Freemason, 2 November 1889

  14. The Freemason, 5 May 1888

  15. Bro Shadwell Clerke died in 1892, replaced as Grand Secretary to the Prince of Wales by Sir Edward Letchworth, who, continuing the fraternal tradition, was described as one of Michael Maybrick’s ‘most intimate friends’. The Freemason, 30 August 1913

  16. More About King Edward, by Edward Legg (p.180)

  17. The Freemason, 11 February 1888

  18. Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter, by Paul H. Feldman

  19. The Diary of Jack the Ripper, by Shirley Harrison

  Chapter 6: On the Square

  1. The Times, Wednesday, 3 October 1888

  2. The Yorkshireman, Tuesday, 2 October 1888

  3. The Corporation of the City of London, edited by Alfred Arthur Sylvester, London, 1897 (p.111)

  4. Ibid. (p.109)

  5. Daily Telegraph, Friday, 5 October 1888

  6. Home Office Minute Sheet: A49301/86

  7. Evening News, 1 October 1888

  8. Sugden (p.247)

  9. Report to Home Office by Donald Swanson, 19 October 1888

  10. Letter from Sir Charles Warren to Commissioner of City Police, Col. Sir James Frazer, 3 October 1888, MEPO1/48

  11. Evening News, 12 October 1888

  12. Daily Telegraph, Friday, 12 October 1888

  13. The Ripper File, by Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd, Arthur Barker Limited, London, 1975 (p.132)

  14. Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts, by Paul Begg (p.127)

  15. The Freemason’s Chronicle, 27 April 1889

  16. The Freemason, Saturday, 14 January 1888

  17. Light Invisible by ‘Vindex’ (p.34)

  18. New York Tribune, 13 November 1888

  19. The History and Practice of the Political Police in Britain, by Tony Bunyan, Julian Friedmann, London, 1976 (p.196)

  Chapter 7: The Ink-Stained Hack

  1. Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen, Newman, Graham & Co., London, n.d., circa 1899, Vol. 2 (p.129)

  2. Victorian Titan, by Andrew Roberts (p.451)

  3. Police, Charles Tempest Clarkson and J. Hall Richardson, Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, London, 1889 (p.278)

  4. Document written by Sir Charles Warren appointing Donald Swanson as his ‘eyes and ears’, drafted 15 September 1888

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Swanson joined the Grand Lodge of Scotland on 21 September 1885, and St Peter’s Thurso Lodge, No. 284, on 12 August 1886

  8. Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts, by Paul Begg (p.127)

  9. Ibid.

  10. Evening News, 2 September 1888

  11. Daily Telegraph, 4 October 1888

  12. The Ripper File, by Melvin Harris, W. H. Allen, London, 1989 (p.58)

  13. Life and Death at the Old Bailey, by R. Thurston Hopkins, Herbert Jenkins, Ltd, London, 1935 (p.201)

  14. ‘Dear Boss’ was preceded by a letter addressed to Sir Charles Warren with ‘on her majesterys service’ gracing the envelope. Date stamped ‘Received Metropolitan Police. 25 Sept 88’

  15. The Lighter Side of My Office Life, Sir Robert Anderson, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910 (p.138)

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Sugden (p.268)

  19. Ibid.

  20. Eddowes inquest: Thursday, 4 October 1888

  21. The Detection of Forgery, by Douglas Blackburn and Waithman Caddell, Edwin Layton, London, 1909 (p.11)

  22. Evening Post, Monday, 1 October 1888

  23. Letter published in The Times, 2 October 1888

  24. Letter from Sir Charles Warren to the Chairman, Board of Works, Whitechapel District, 3 October 1888

  25. Ibid.

  26. Ibid.

  27. ‘I had served in two provincial police forces for thirty years and though I had known wrongdoing, I had never experienced institutionalized wrongdoing, blindness, arrogance and prejudice on anything like the scale accepted as routine in the Met.’ In the Office of Constable by Sir Robert Mark, Collins, London, 1978 (p.124)

  28. Letters from Sir Charles Warren to the Chairman, Board of Works, Whitechapel District, 3 October 1888

  29. The Ripper Legacy, by Martin Howells and Keith Skinner, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1987 (p.194)

  30. The Letters of Queen Victoria, edited by George Earle Buckle, John Murray, London, 1930, Vol. 1 (p.449)

  31. East London Observer, 15 October 1888

  32. Ibid.

  33. The Echo, Monday, 10 September 1888

  34. Home Office A49301C/10. 27 October 1888

  35. East London Observer, 6 October 1888

  36. Report by Superintendent Thomas Arnold, H Division (Whitechapel), dated 22 October 1888

  37. Bradford Observer, 15 September 1888

  38. Metropolitan Police Orders, 1888 (pp.874–1114)

  39. Ibid. (pp.480–1, 797)

  40. ‘Every single article in the Queen’s possession had been photographed from several points of view,’ resulting in an encyclopedic set of specially bound volumes, cataloguing Her Majesty’s possessions. Opposite each article, be it a Van Dyke or a stuffed dachshund, ‘an entry was made, indicating the number of the article, the number of the room in which it was kept, its exact position in the room, and all its principal characteristics’. Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey, Chatto & Windus, London, 1921

  41. Whitehall, 17 September 1888, A49301/3

  42. The Story of Scotland Yard, by George Dilnot, Geoffrey Bles, London, n. d., circa 1925. Note: ‘After I became a member of the permanent staff of the Yard and received such gratuities as I earned, I reckoned them to be worth half the amount of my pay to me taking the year all round’ – Detective Inspector Meiklejohn. Meiklejohn was betrayed by his criminal associates and kicked out of the Metropolitan Police, attracting two years’ hard labour.

  43. Home Office, 7 October 1888. HO 144/220/A49301B

  44. Ibid.

  45. Ibid.

  46. HO 144/220A 49301B f180–1 (See Dr Gordon Brown/Eddowes inquest, The Times, Friday, 5 October, and Dr Bond, HO 144/221–A493 01C f220–3)

  47. The Star, Saturday, 10 November 1888

  48. The Times, Thursday, 27 September 1888

  49. Kenning’s Masonic Cyclopaedia, 1878 (p.476)

  50. Sugden (p.94)

  51. Ibid. (pp.109–10)

  52. From Constable to Commissioner, by Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Smith (pp.147–8)

  53. The Times, 19 July 1889

  54. Police Orders, Thursday, 23 August 1888 (p.850)

  55. East London Advertiser, 15 September 1888

  56. The Jack the Ripper A to Z, Headline Book Publishing, 1994 (p.372)

  Chapter 8: The Double Event: Part Two

  1. East London Observer, 13 October 1888

  2. East London Advertiser, Saturday, 6 October 1888

  3. I Caught Crippen, by Walter Dew (p.141)

  4. Daily News, Monday, 1 October 1888

  5. Daily Telegraph, Monday, 1 October 1888

  6. Evening News, 1 October 1888

  7. Ibid.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Sugden (p.227)

  10. Forensic Medicine, by Keith Simpson, Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1951 (p.7)

  11. Principles of Forensic Medicine, revised by William R. Smith, Henry Renshaw, London, 1895, 7th edition (pp.288–9)

  12. Daily Chronicle, Monday, 1 October 1888

  13. Illustrated London News, 30 October 1888

  14. ‘On arrival of the Superindendent from Leman Street Police Station, which took place almost simultaneously with that of the divisional sergeant
’. Daily News, Monday, 1 October 1888

  15. Crime Department’s Special Branch Ledger, Special Account, commencing 1 February 1888

  16. Reynold’s News, Sunday, 7 April 1895

  17. Daily News, 1 October 1888

  18. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates, by Stewart P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow, Sutton Publishing, 2006 (p.101)

  19. Observer, 30 September 1888

  20. Evans and Rumbelow (p.101)

  21. The Unpublished Memories of James Monro, April 1903 (p.77)

  22. Evening News, 1 October 1888

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid.

  25. Diemschutz was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, and Kosebrodski sentenced to pay a fine of four pounds or to be imprisoned for one month. The Times, 26 April 1889

  26. I Caught Crippen, by Walter Dew (p.141)

  27. London Report for the Te Aroha News (New Zealand), 12 December 1888

  28. Daily Telegraph, 1 October 1888

  Chapter 9: Rotten to the Core

  1. Criminal Investigation Dept, Scotland Yard, 4 October 1888 – reference to papers 52983

  2. Metropolitan Police H Division, 4 October 1888 – Reference to papers 52983

  3. Before PC White was kicked out of the police force for drunkenness, we find he was ‘severely reprimanded and cautioned’. Police orders, Friday, 23 November 1888

  4. Stephen’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 18th edition, Vol. IV, Butterworth & Co., London, 1925 (p.220)

  5. East London Advertiser, 28 July 1888

  6. The Times, 8 October 1888

  7. Memo by J. S. Sandars, Assistant to E. J. Ruggles-Brise, who himself was the private secretary to the Home Secretary, Henry Matthews, 19 September 1888

  8. Evening News, Monday, 1 October 1888

  9. Robert Anderson to the Home Office, 23 October 1888: A49301/60

  10. It is of note that Sergeant White does not give ‘evidence’ at the Stride inquest. Yet it was he who made ‘a house-to-house search of Berner Street’, and supposedly interviewed Packer. Calling White to the inquest would of course mean calling Matthew Packer.

  11. The Star, 4 October 1888

  12. Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates, by Stewart Evans and Don Rumbelow (p.107)

  13. Ibid. (p.108)

  14. Sugden (p.227)

  15. Ibid.

  16. Ibid. (p.228)

  17. Daily Telegraph, Saturday, 6 October 1888

  18. Ibid.

  19. Ibid.

  20. East London Advertiser, Saturday, 6 October 1888

  21. Manchester Guardian, Monday, 8 October 1888

  22. Jack the Ripper: The Facts, by Paul Begg (p.145)

  23. Le Grande briefly reappears as a ‘witness’ in the Parnell frame-up

  24. Donald Swanson’s report, Metropolitan Police, 19 October 1888

  25. Sugden (p.225)

  26. Jack the Ripper: The Facts, by Paul Begg (p.147)

  27. Ibid. (p.144)

  28. The Star, 1 October 1888

  29. Ibid.

  30. Evening Post, 1 October 1888

  31. Report to Home Office by Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, dated 19 October 1888

  32. Ibid.

  33. Ibid.

  34. The Trials of Israel Lipski, by Martin Friedland, Macmillan, London, 1984 (p.187)

  35. Metropolitan Police Office, Police Orders, Thursday, 13 December 1888 (p.1215)

  36. The Yorkshire Pioneer, 5 October 1888

  37. The Yorkshireman, 11 September 1888

  38. The Standard, 1 October 1888

  39. Daily News, Monday, 1 October 1888

  40. Swanson’s report to Home Office, 19 October 1888

  41. Draft letter to Home Office from Robert Anderson, 5 November 1888 (3/53983/1119)

  42. The A to Z, 1996 (p.388)

  43. Ibid.

  44. Report from Sir Charles Warren, confidential letter dated 6 November. Stamped Home Office, 7 November 1888

  45. East London Advertiser, 6 October 1888

  Chapter 10: ‘They All Love Jack’

  1. Tatler, 30 March 1889 (p.90)

  2. The World, 15 January 1980 (p.8)

  3. Hymns Ancient and Modern, by Jimmy Glover, Fisher Unwin Limited, London, 1926 (p.92)

  4. New Era, 14 September 1878 (p.3)

  5. Sir Charles Santley, John Newburn Levin, n. d., circa 1927 (p.7)

  6. New Penny Magazine, Vol. VIII, Cassell & Co., 1900

  7. Memories, an Autobiography, by Walter Macfarren. The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Limited, London & New York, 1905 (pp.1, 4, 6–7)

  8. Musical World, 6 December 1884 (p.766)

  9. ‘The Regimental March “They All Love Jack” was a composition of one of our celebrated officers of later days, Capt. Michael Maybrick, who wrote under the name of “Stephen Adams”, and was adopted by the corps as their capital Regimental march in the 80s.’ Memories of the Artists Rifles, by Colonel H. R. A. May, 1929 (p.13)

  10. The World, 15 January 1890 (p.8)

  11. Internet profile of British composer Stephen Adams, by Derek Strahan

  12. Once an Artist Always an Artist, by Capt. C. J. Blomfield, Page & Co., London, 1921

  13. Records of the Artists Volunteers, 26 February 1886. ‘Michael Maybrick, Gent, to be Lieutenant (Supernumerary),’ 6 February 1886

  14. The Criminal, by Havelock Ellis, 1890 (p.94)

  15. New York Daily Tribune, 11 November 1888

  16. Whoever Fights Monsters, by Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman, St Martin’s Press, New York, 1992 (p.63)

  17. Beside Me, by Ann Rule, W. W. Norton & Co., New York and London, 1980 (p.31)

  18. Ressler (p.64)

  19. Vanity Varnished, by P. Tennyson Cole, Hutchinson, London, 1931 (p.88)

  20. Letter to Trevor Christie from Florence Aunspaugh, n. d., circa 1942

  21. The Star, 1 October 1888. ‘He gave his name and address, but the police have not disclosed them.’

  22. Sunday Times, 11 November 1888

  23. Evening News, Saturday, 20 October 1888

  24. Evening News, Friday, 19 October 1888

  25. The Criminologist, Spring 1989, Vol. 13, No. 1 (pp.12–15)

  26. Thomas Horrocks Openshaw, Hotspur Lodge No. 1626. Initiated 27 April 1882, aged twenty-six. Archive at Freemasons’ Hall, 9 May 2007

  27. From Constable to Commissioner, by Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Smith (p.154)

  28. Ibid. (p.155)

  29. Sunday Times, 21 October 1888

  30. Report of Chief Inspector Donald Swanson. A49301C/8c. Stamped: Home Office, 6 November 1888. See: City Report, signed Jas. Inspector McWilliam, City of London Police 27 October 1888, who gives the correct date Tuesday, 16 October 1888.

  31. Donald Swanson Report to Home Office, 6 November 1888

  32. From Constable to Commissioner, by Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Smith (p.154)

  33. Sunday Times, 21 October 1888

  34. A Treatise: Bright’s Disease, by James Tyson, M. D., P. Blakiston’s Sons & Co., Philadelphia, 1904 (p.101)

  35. Report to Home Office, Donald Swanson: A49301C/8c

  36. City of London Police: Stamped: Home Office, 29 October 1888. Dept. No. A493018b

  37. The Star, Wednesday, 17 October 1888

  38. The News from Whitechapel, by Alexander Chisholm, Christopher-Michael DiGrazia and Dave Yost, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2002 (p.189)

  39. Sickert and the Ripper Crimes, by Jean Overton Fuller, Mandrake, Oxford, 1990 (p.128)

  40. Philip Sugden (p.275). Based on Thomas J. Mann, ‘The Ripper and the Poet, a Comparison of Handwriting’, Wade Journal (Chicago) Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1975 (pp.1–31)

  41. The True History of the Elephant Man, by Michael Howell and Peter Ford, Penguin Books, London, 1980 (pp.18–19)

  42. Round London, by Montagu Williams QC, Macmillan & Co., London and New York, 1892 (p.8)

  Chapter 11: On Her Majesty’s Service

  1. The Mo
nster of Dusseldorf: The Life and Trial of Peter Kurten, by Margaret Seaton Wagner, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1933 (p.141)

  2. The Unknown Murderer, by Theodor Reik, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1945 (p.86)

  3. Jack the Ripper letter, 23 October 1888

  4. To the Under Secretary of State, from Charles Warren. Stamped Home Office, 10 October 1888, A49301C

  5. The Life of General Sir Charles Warren, by his grandson, Watkin W. Williams, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1941 (p.222)

  6. Home Office, 10 October 1888. Dept. No. A49301B/8

  7. ‘The Police of the Metropolis’, Murray’s Magazine, November 1888 (p.16)

  8. Days of My Years, by Sir Melville Macnaghten (p.54)

  9. The Story of John George Haigh, by Stafford Somerfield, Hood Pearson (p.67)

  10. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 26 December 1900 (p.310)

  11. Life and Letters of Sir Charles Hallé, edited by his son, C. E. Hallé, Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1896 (pp.117–18)

  12. The Nation, 16 August 1888 (p.127)

  13. The Post Office and its Story, by Edward Bennett, Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd, London, 1912 (p.73)

  14. Letter sent by Jack the Ripper to Metropolitan Police, 8 October 1888

  15. Truth, 18 October 1888

  16. The Post Office and its Story (p.213)

  17. Letter from Jonathan Hopson, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 8 February 2001

  18. Masonic Problems and Queries, compiled by Herbert F. Inman, A. Lewis (Masonic Publishers) Ltd, London, 1950. Note: A Lodge is ‘squared’ during the actual progress of a ceremony, when ‘squaring’ is symbolical. To be a Mason is to be ‘On the Square’, as Masons nominate themselves. (p.217)

  19. Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life, by Samuel Lover, Milner & Co., Ltd, London (p.1)

  20. Chief Men Among the Brethren, by Hy Pickering, Pickering & Inglis, London, n. d., circa 1900 (p.211)

  21. Robert Anderson, K.C.B.L.L.D. and Lady Agnes Anderson, by their son, A. P. Moore-Anderson, Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd, London, 1947

  22. Amy Maine interview, conducted by Roger Wilkes (p.7)

  23. Fifty Years of Music, by William Boosey, Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1931 (p.18)

  24. Copied from a letter to Trevor Christie from Florence Aunspaugh (n. d., circa 1942)

  Chapter 12: The Mouth of the Maggot

  1. An Inquiry into the Age of the Moabite Stone, by Samuel Sharpe, Watson & Co., London, 1896. Note: The stone bears an inscription, which purports to have been written about 850 BC by Mesha, King of Moab, who lived in the reigns of the kings of Northern Israel. In its subject matter, its language and its characters, it is most interesting to the student of the Bible.