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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2341
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 6:05 pm: | 
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Every year the Met released a report to the press which covered all aspects of their policing and other duties. This press report came out two years after the year concerned, so the press report of the year 1891 actually related to the year 1889.
In this year, 1889, the Met report relates that 17 murders were recorded with no convictions obtained.
Interestingly two of these murderers were not convicted because they were counted as insane. So even though the murders happened and the murderers were apprehended… the crimes were not solved.
In an unnamed case the murderer is tracked to New York but tops himself in prison. Case not solved again.
Four other murderers top themselves.
Six murderers did not murder.
Leaving four to the account of the Met.
The prostitute smashed to pieces in Algernon Road on 10th February.
Elizabeth Jackson, prostitute, spread across the river and canal systems of London.
Alice M’Kenzie, prostitute, Castle-Alley, 17th July.
The Pinchin-street murder, 10th September.
Besides not being a very good record of policing, I do find it interesting that lunatics could go out and kill people and that killing would remain unsolved for all time because that killing had not happened because the person doing the killing was a lunatic.
That’s a bit Groucho Marx but I hope you get my drift.
The problem is I can’t turn up the Met press report for 1888, which should have appeared in 1890, so if anyone else can turn that up I would love to see it, for it should give a precise police account of what they did with the crimes of the Whitechapel Murderer.
Officially I mean. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4738
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 9:32 pm: |
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AP, have emailed you.
Robert |
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