Date With History: 1888

Prostitute Mary Ann Nichols (nee

Walker, and known locally as Polly),

aged 43, became the first canonical

victim of the Victorian serial killer

known as Jack the Ripper.

She was murdered at around 3.40

am, on Friday August 31st, in Buck's

Row (now Durward Street), located

in Whitechapel, East London.

Nichols was discovered by carman,

Charles Cross, and she was buried

at the City of London cemetery on

September 6th.

In 2012, Cross (aka Lechmere)
was proposed as a Ripper suspect
by Swedish researcher Christier

Holmgren.

The Assistant Commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police (CID), James
Monro resigned his post today, and
ultimately replaced Sir Charles

Warren. New Commissioner Robert Anderson assigned Donald

Swanson to head the case. The Autumn of Terror had begun.