9. Daily Telegraph, 12 November 1888.
10. LMA: MJ/SPC NE 1888 Box 3, case paper 19, Julia Venturney.
11. Ibid.
12. Evening Star, 12 November 1888; theEcho, 12 November 1888.
13. Dew, Chapter 1, “The Hunt for Jack the Ripper,” in I Caught Crippen.
14. Pall Mall Gazette, 12 November 1888.
15. Paul Begg, Jack the Ripper: Just the Facts(London, 2004).
16. LMA: MJ/SPC NE 1888 Box 3, case paper 19, Inquest statement of Joseph Barnett, 12 November 1888.
17. Begg, Jack the Ripper.
18. Ibid. The term “bully” might be read in two ways here—the conventional definition, or in reference to the sex trade. A bully was also another name for a pimp.
19. LMA: MJ/SPC NE 1888 Box 3, case paper 19, Julia Venturney.
20. Begg, Jack the Ripper.
21. LMA: MJ/SPC NE 1888 Box 3, case paper 19, Julia Venturney.
22. Ibid., Joseph Barnett.
23. LMA: MJ/SPC NE 1888 Box 3, case paper 19, Inquest Statement of Mary Ann Cox, 9 November 1888.
Conclusion: “Just Prostitutes”
1. TheTimes, 1 October 1888.
2. John Holland Rose (ed.), The Cambridge History of the British Empire,vol. 1 (Cambridge, UK, 1940), p. 745.
3. Nina Attwood, The Prostitute’s Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain (London, 2010), pp. 51–54.
4. PRO Home Office papers: HO 45/9964/x15663.
5. PRO: Metropolitan Police Files: file 3/141, ff. 158–59.
6. GRO: Death Certificate for Mary Ann Nichols: 1888, J-S Whitechapel 1c/219, Annie Chapman: 1888, J-S Whitechapel 1c/175, Elizabeth Stride: 1888 O-D St George in the East, 1c/268, Catherine Eddowes: 1888 O-D London City 1c/37, Mary Jane “Marie Jeanette” Kelly: 1888 O-D Whitechapel 1c/211.
7. Washington Post, 6 June 2016;Huffington Post, 7 June 2016.
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