Photo Annie Chapman 1880
This Route takes me Right into the heart of whitechapel.
The walk from Dorset street to Hanbury street took me just under 5
minutes.
Number 29 Hanbury Street is the site which Annie Chapman, the second victim of Jack the Ripper, was murdered on 8th September 1888. Although the murder site has now been obliterated, There is still several buildings that survives from 1888 and where one of the major suspects actually worked!
Saturday, 8th September 1888: Approx 1am: A lodger, William Stevens, reports seeing Annie wrapping some medication in a piece of envelope after the pill box broke.
1.35am: Annie returns to the lodging house, eating a baked potato, she tells the deputy that she cannot afford her bed, but asks for it to be saved for her as she will be back soon.
5.30am: A witness named Elizabeth Long reports seeing Annie with a man (she only sees the back of the man). He asks Annie “will you?” and she replies “yes”.
( This eyewitness account by Elizabeth Long is very important, she could be the only one that ever did Actually see Jack the Ripper)
A young carpenter living at 27 Hanbury Street walks into his back yard probably to use the outhouse. Passing the five foot tall wooden fence which separates his yard from that of number 29, he hears voices quite close. The only word he can make out is a woman saying "No" He then heard something falling against the fence.
( This witness statement from the carpenter is also important, Had he peered over the wooden fence that night, He would most definitely had seen Jack the Ripper)".
Annie's body was discovered a little before 6.00am by John Davis, a man who lived on the third floor of No.29 with his family.Annie Chapman`s abdomen had been entirely laid open, the intestines, severed from their mesenteric attachments, had been lifted out of the body and placed on the shoulder of the corpse; whilst from the pelvis, the uterus and its appendages were Removed.
Annie Chapman Post-Mortem photo 1888
Murder site 29 Hanbury street 1888
Annie Chapman was found in the backyard of 29 hanbury street
Annie Chapman`s Murder site, photo taken 2009
The site is now Dominated by the Truman Brewery.
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