Mary Ann Nichols (nee Walker, andknown locally as Polly), aged 43,
became the first canonical victim
of the unidentified Victorian serial
killer eventually dubbed 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 in Channel
5's The Missing Evidence.
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.
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