London's Autumn of Terror ended suddenly 137years ago, when Jack the Ripper's final prey was discovered, horribly mutilated in her lodging
room. 25 year old prostitute Mary Jane Kelly
was the killer's fifth and youngest canonical
victim - she was the only one murdered indoors.
Friday November 9th was the day of the annual
Lord Mayor's parade. At about 11 am, Kelly's
landlord sent his agent to collect her rent at 13
Miller's Court, off Dorset Street in Spitalfields, but instead he found her corpse.
Two witnesses claimed to have seen Kelly alive
earlier that morning, at around 8.30 and 10 am.
This interesting discrepancy has given rise to a
theory (used as a plot device in the From Hell
graphic novel, and the subsequent film version),
that another women was mistaken for Kelly and slain in her place.
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Charles Warren bowed to
mounting criticism, and had already decided to resign on the same day
as Kelly's murder.
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