Whitechapel

• Workhouses were run on strict principles of discipline and hard labour with the aim of making life inside them so unpleasant that people would only enter if there was no other option
• What were the names of the bloodhounds that were going to be used in the Jack the Ripper investigation?

  Barnaby and Burgho
• Why weren’t Barnaby and Burgho used?


  The police commissioner Charles Warren didn't want to pay for them
• Who was Edmund Henderson and what did he do?

  He was police commissioner form 1870-1886 before Charles Warren and was known for letting the standards of officers slip
• When was the CID formed and who was it formed by?

  The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) was formed in 1878 by Edmund Henderson
• Around how many officers were there policing Whitechapel at the time of Jack the Ripper?

  Around 500 officers
• What is a brothel?

  A place were prostitutes worked from
• What are the possible sources for media sources?

  Local newspaper reports

  National newspapers

  Penny Dreadfuls

  The Police Review
• What are the possible sources for police records?

  Police station records

  Police officer reports

  Witness statements

  Coroner‘s reports

  Post-mortem reports

  Police officer memoirs
• What are the possible sources for government sources?

  The 1881 census

  Charles Booth’s poverty map

  Freedom licences

  Old Bailey court records

  Official government records
• What was a rookery?

  A slum area were there were houses separated into apartments with up to 30 people living in one room
• Who was George Peabody?

  An American philanthropist who established The Peabody Estate
• How many flats did The Peabody Estate provide?

  It provided 286 flats to the residents in Whitechapel
• How much was a flat in The Peabody Estate a week?

  3 shillings
• Who were the Fenians?

  A Catholic terrorist group from Ireland
• Why were the Irish not well liked?

  They were known for their violent drunken behaviour
• Why the local newspapers often to blame for the anti-semantic behiour of the public?

  They created stereotyped images of Jewish people as suspects for the Jack the Ripper murders
• What were the names of Jack the Ripper’s victims?

  Mary Ann Nichols

  Annie Chapman

  Elizabeth Stride

  Catherine Eddowes

  Mary Jane Kelly
• What did walking the beat involve?

  Walk around a specific area with a partner and try to deter criminals
• What were protection rackets?

  Illegal deals where criminals take money from businesses in exchange for "protection" from harm or damage.
• How many prostitutes were estimated to be working in the Whitechapel area?

  Around 1200
• Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline?

  Inspector Frederick Abberline was a detective in the London Metropolitan Police who investigated the Jack the Ripper murders in the late 1800s.
• How many lodging house residents did the police question about Jack the Ripper?

  More the 2000
• Why did the police visit lunatic asylums?

  To see if anyone had escaped as they thought Jack the Ripper must be “insane”.
• Why didn’t soup kitchen work?

  Most people just came for the food and didn’t tell the police any information about the Ripper
• Why did the police investigate people with medical knowledge?

  They assumed the Ripper had medical knowledge by the way his victims were mutilated
• Why were gangs an issue for policing in Whitechapel?

  Gangs made deals with local businesses to protect them from crime as long as the owners didn’t report them to the police. There was rivalry between gangs and people were scared of reporting gang violence because of consequences.
• What was the first British socialist political party called?

  The Socialist Democratic Federation (SDF)
• Why did socialists hate the police?

  They saw them as another form of government control.
• What is an Anarchist?

  Someone who opposes to having a government.
• Newspapers exaggerated the threat that anarchists had so anyone with an Eastern European accent or name was seen as a potential anarchist and treated with suspicion.
• On 24th January 1885 the Fenians launched attacks on famous London landmarks such as the House of Commons and the Tower of London.
• What happened on “Dynamite Saturday”?

  The Fenians launched an attack on the Houses of Commons and the Tower of London.
• What happened on Bloody Sunday 1887?

  The Trafalgar Square demonstration
• What year was the Bertillon System introduced?

  1894
• What was the message that Charles Warren ordered to be washed off of the wall?


  “The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing”
• What obstacles did the police face?

  Police force rivalry

  The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee

  Penny Dreadfuls

  Public involvement and attitudes
• Why did police not use rewards to try and get information about Jack the Ripper?

  There were lots of people who wanted the money so came forward with false information