Pall Mall Gazette

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Introduction
The 1865 Pall Mall Gazette from Holborn merged with today’s Evening Standard in 1923. Initially fictional in a Thackeray novel, the real paper featured in Wells’ Time Machine and Sherlock tales. Many famous authors wrote for this journal, a campaigner for social change. Here it reviews letters claiming to be from Jack, first serial killer widely reported in the press. Most letters were fake but three may be genuine including From Hell right.

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Hazle Ceramics
Pall Mall Gazette
Limited Painting of 30
on London Lock’s

 “From Hell. Mr Lusk, Sor, I send you half the Kidne I took from one woman and prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer. signed Catch me when you can Mishter Lusk.”

20th Anniversary 2010
Painted by Carol Whaley

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Ripper Case Notes
In 1888 at least five women were mutilated in London’s poor East End. There was a pattern to the murders of brutal deep cuts - and most had a “trophy” organ removed with such precision that anatomical knowledge was assumed. The half-kidney in the From Hell parcel was similar to one from victim Catherine Eddowes, who had kidney disease. While the case is still unsolved Ripperology is a growth industry. Scandalously, most original evidence has been lost. This makes it difficult to apply modern techniques of detection including DNA testing.

Catherine Eddowes Found in a Pall Mall engraving. 

 Studying 14 old London papers, the book cover is a colorised engraving taken from the Pall Mall Gazette. George Lusk, centre in bowler hat, got the “From Hell” package as chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. Their volunteers patrolled the night streets eyeing up potential suspects.