Date With History: 1888

Berner St. circa 1908

The Whitechapel Murders escalated

as the killer, now known as Jack the Ripper (he was christened in the

 'Dear Boss' letter just three days

before), attacked two more alleged

 prostitutes on the same night.

The first victim of the infamous

 'Double Event' was Elizabeth

Stride, murdered at about 1 am,

on Sunday September 30th, in

Dutfield's Yard, on Berner (now Henriques) Street.

Less than an hour later, Catherine Eddowes became the fourth canon

-ical victim of the Ripper. She was

slain in Mitre Square, Aldgate, within the City of London itself, at around 1.45 am.

Mitre Square reconstructed
for CSI: Whitechapel (2012)

Then at about 3 am, PC Alfred Long discovered two clues in nearby

Wentworth Dwellings on Goulston

 Street. A bloodied portion of

Eddowes' apron lay in a stairwell,

 and above it, written in chalk on

the wall, was this message: "the

Juwes are the men that will not be

blamed for nothing." The true

 import of this 'graffito' is still

unclear - compounded by Met

police Commissioner Charles

Warren's insistence on having it

erased.