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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1298
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 5:14 pm: |       |
I just love this (from the 'Brick' site):
'Jack The Bricker
"Jack the Bricker must be world's most high profile Brick User."
The `Brickings' took place in the unsalubrious Whitechapel area of East London. The world's first serial bricker was never caught. To this day, criminologists, brickologists, historians and amateur sleuths are no nearer discovering who the brick wielder was.
All five victims were bricked within the space of ten weeks in 1888 and were East End prostitutes ....
Mary Ann `Polly' Nichols, aged 42, married with 5 children was found bent over at Bucks Row, off the Whitechapel Road at 3.40am on Friday 31 August.
This first acknowledged victim of Jack the bricker was discovered by PC John Neill who found her down on her knees over a saw horse in an alley (she was bricked from left to right), At the hospital it was discovered that her bricking had caused severe memory loss.
Bucks Row was renamed Durward Street in 1892 to avoid notoriety. The assault took place 70 feet west on the Board School, which has now been converted into luxury flats.
Annie Chapman, aged 47 was found in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street at 6am on Saturday 8 September. The facade of the old Truman's Brewery on the north side of Hanbury Street conceals the bricking site.
Dark Annie's body was discovered by a Spitalfield Market porter, John Davis. Annie's precise bump on the head showed the brick was wielded in a manner which suggested that her attacker had anatomical knowledge. Her pants were missing and a leather apron soaked in water was found nearby.
Annie had been seen at 5.30am by a park keeper's wife. She was haggling with a shabbily but respectably dressed man wearing a deerstalker hat aged about 40. On Sunday 10 September the police arrested John Pizer, alias `Leather Apron' but he had alibis.
Elizabeth Stride, aged 45 of Swedish descent. Long Liz was discovered by Louis Diemschutz when he turned his pony and trap into the yard behind 40 Berner Street at 1am Sunday 30 September.
Elizabeth's had been bricked really hard. From the position of her body it is presumed that the bricker had intended to make a good go of it, but was interrupted by the arrival of the cart.
The street has been renamed Henriques Street after a local benefactor. The site is occupied by a former London County Council school, now known as Harry Gosling Primary School.
Catherine Eddowes, aged 46, was found less than an hour after Elizabeth Stride a short walk away, inside the City of London district at Mitre Square by PC Watkins.
She had been ferociously bricked. Like Annie Chapman, some of her clothing had been removed, notably her skirt and panties.
Crowds of people started gathering at the Whitechapel Bricking Sites and a `terrible quiet' descended. Following this double bricking, a letter in red ink was sent to the Central News Agency dated 25 September 1888, signed "Jack the Bricker". After its publication the day after, the nick-name for the bricker has stayed with us to this day
Mary Jane Kelly, aged 25 was bricked at her home, Room 13, Miller's Court, 26 Dorset Street at 4am Friday 9 November.. This was the most savage and gruesome bricking where the back of her head had developed a soft spot because of the force used with the brick (You have to be careful because its a side effect of misuse of the brick and not following instructions on page 3 of the included manual).
In 1904 Dorset Street was renamed Duval Street and in 1929 the whole north side was demolished and an extension to Spitalfields Market erected. Today it is an unnamed service road next to White's Row Car Park.
All the bricker's victims were reputed to drink in the Ten Bells Public House on Commercial Street. Polly Nichols, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddows lived in the Thrawl Street and Flower & Dean Street vicinity at some time. Catherine Eddows and Elizabeth Stride lodged in Fashion Street on occasions.
Though the bricker was never found there were several suspects, the most sensational being the eldest son of Edward VII, Prince Albert Victor the Duke of Clarence and Queen Victoria's doctor, William Gull. A favored suspect was Montague John Druitt, a 31 year old barrister of the Inner Temple and school teacher who disappeared in December 1888.
Other suspects included John Pizer (Leather Apron); Kosminski, a poor Polish Jew resident in Whitechapel; ; Michael Ostrog, a Russian-born multi-pseudonymous thief and confidence trickster, believed to be 55 years old in 1888, and detained in asylums on several occasions; Dr Francis J. Tumblety, 56 Years old, an American 'quack' doctor, who was arrested in November 1888 for offences of gross indecency, and fled the country later the same month, having obtained bail at a very high price; (the Freemasons, a Jewish slaughter man, a doctor and a midwife).
The area between Shoreditch and Whitechapel is today, one of the oldest red light areas in London. Some of the derivatives traders, the young `money men' of the Square Mile, like to enjoy an afternoon watching the exotic dancers at the `Ten Bells' and the seedy `Browns' in Old Street. Sexual services are advertised illegally on professionally printed postcards sited in public telephone boxes, and there are still, despite the protestations of local residents, the street girls. They continue to provide a cheap service for the curb crawlers.'
All in all it's just another brick in the wall. |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1111
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 5:45 pm: | |
Brilliant AP!!!!!
A typical case of Brick Laying I'd say!!!
Just hope we're not knocking our heads againnst a Brick wall here!!! Damn!!! thought you had it there!
God you could tell a potential victim at 50 yds though looked like a Brick **** house!
Hope I havent dropped a brick here!
Cheers
Suzi
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2874
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 6:08 pm: | |
Great stuff, AP. My money's on Monty Druitt (body weighted down with bricks) ; George Lusk (builder - may have had access to bricks) ; or PAV (thick as a brick).
Robert |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1113
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 3:49 am: | |
A N D.......... of course theres the not to overlooked.. Brick Lane connection(!)
Suzi |
Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz
Post Number: 1215
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 4:21 am: | |
May brick or may not brick?
That may be the question.
Love,
Caz
X |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2875
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 5:40 am: | |
Bricks are certainly a recurring theme - see Ingleby Hoddie thread above. Then there's the "Brickerologist" with Chris Scott's newspaper trowel. Finally, of course, there's Don Rumbelow's "The Concrete Jack the Bricker."
Robert |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1299
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 1:12 pm: | |
Yes, it was good fun wasn't it.
I think the chap should speak at conference and we all bring our own bricks to throw at him.
I thought Robert would enjoy it, as it does have a touch of the 'Goons' about it. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2876
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 2:20 pm: | |
AP, definitely Goonish, though Spike and Co would have had Eddowes struck down by a cold batter pudding, Nichols would have awoken from a drunken stupor to discover she'd been balded, her hair being subsequently sold as pipe tobacco, and the killer would have escaped from Kelly's room by crawling through a photograph of the keyhole.
Robert |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1304
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 5:25 pm: | |
And Tom-Tom would have fallen down the stairs, and uncle Charles would have shot himself... then everyone would have gone to Brighton for a good curry at the Seaside Home and shot a few seagulls.
Still, I loved the slight loss of memory on one victim after being bricked by Jack the Bricker. |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1114
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 11:16 am: | |
Hi AP etc
God! I think JTB's been around here lately!
'By the bricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Open locks
whoever knocks'
sic W.Shakespeare
Strangely pertinent tho! Hmmmm locks eh
Cheers
Suzi
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Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1115
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 11:23 am: | |
And of course....
'If you Brick us.....do we not bleed?'
And couldnt resist this:
And in such indexes,although small 'bricks'
To their subsequent volumes,there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things come at large'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Troilus and Cressida W.Shakespeare
.....THINK I looked up BRICK
Cheers
Suzi x
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 2893
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 11:53 am: | |
Hi Suzi
Loved the Shylock one.
Anyway, AP's right: these weren't sexual murders - there were no cement stains.
Robert |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1314
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 1:45 pm: | |
Enjoyed that Suzi.
Robert, that was so funny that I spat a mouthful of me precious SSB all over my laptop!
Actually cement stains play a minor role in modern forensics as - unlike mud and straw -although the DNA can be extracted the age of the sample cannot.
Quick-drying cement is often used in these highly complicated cases.
See the Masons for more details. |
Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 1116
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2004 - 3:31 pm: | |
Are we wattling and daubing on here!!......
'Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life is,but an empty dream
For the souls is dead that slumbers
And things are not what thet seem (ent!) seem! (suzi)
Longfellow
Stretching it a tad tho but it kept me quiet for a while!
Cheers ( careful with that stuff AP!!! am down to the last of the Duty Free here!)
Suzi
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