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Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1341
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 02, 2005 - 4:02 pm: | 
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The section on press reports contains several items relating to a letter to the Earl of Sheffield, dated and postmarked 27 October 1888, threatening him and his steward in retaliation for the eviction of one of his tenants, signed "Jack the Ripper":
http://casebook.org/press_reports/star/s881103.html
According to the biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall by Edward Marjoribanks (1929), a trial was held as a result, with Hall prosecuting. Unfortunately no further details are given.
Chris Phillips
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Jeffrey Bloomfied
Chief Inspector
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 879
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 12:29 am: |
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Hi Chris,
The section on the dealings of Hall with Lord Sheffield and the author of the letters threatening his Lordship is close to the material about Hall and Frederick Deeming and then Hall and Thomas Neill Cream. I dealt with those two portions of the section in the articles on Cream (recently published in RIPPER NOTES) and in the article about Deeming last year in THE RIPPEROLOGIST. It may be that Marjoribanks was simply putting the incidents in chronological order, or he put them together in a kind of stream of conciousness type of writing (as all three deal with serial killers - although the Sheffield matter really dealt with a copy cat and not the real Jack). I went over the article in THE STAR that you referred us to, and it's the same threatening note that Marjoribanks quotes in his biography. I believe there was a conviction.
Best wishes,
Jeff |
Alex Chisholm
Police Constable
Username: Alex
Post Number: 9
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 1:43 pm: |
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The Star, 27 Nov. 1888, contained the following, which may be of interest:
“Lord Sheffield Satisfied Now.
Edward Grover was remanded at Uckfield yesterday on a charge of inciting several persons to attempt to murder Lord Sheffield. The prisoner was formerly a butcher at Fletching, living with his mother. Lord Sheffield recently gave the mother notice to quit. Grover was arrested on Thursday night at East Grinstead, but, obtaining leave to go upstairs for a coat, let himself out of a bedroom window by means of a blanket, and escaped barefooted across country to Fletching, where he was re-arrested on Sunday. The prisoner is suspected of having written the threatening letters by which Lord Sheffield has been of late so much annoyed.”
Best Wishes
alex
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