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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 657
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 7:19 am: | 
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Saw this article about a body found in the Thames four days after the Kelly murder and thought it might be of interest.
Reno Evening Gazette
13 November 1888
A Probable Murder
London Nov. 13.
The body of a well dressed woman was taken out of the Thames this morning. There were marks on the body which gave rise to a suspicion that the woman had been murdered, but it is possible she committed suicide, and that the marks were received by contact with objects in the water. The police searched the wards of the various police stations, in the hope of getting a clue to the murderer, but were unsuccessful. They arrested one man who had a bowie knife in his possession, but there was no reason to believe that he was instrumental in the woman's death. He will probably be discharged.
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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2853
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 5:08 pm: |
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I'm reviving this long lost post from Chris.
The date and the Bowie knife interest me. |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2855
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 1:21 pm: |
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Chris
I think the case you refer to here came up at Inquest on the 20th November 1888 in Shadwell under our old friend Wynne Baxter.
The woman was Annie Hancock, aged 32, from Brixton.
Reading between the lines of the report I would suspect that the lady was an ‘unfortunate’.
Although the verdict was ‘Found drowned’, there is much to the case that warrants further investigation, such as she was seen with a ‘stranger’ - good description of this man - shortly before her death.
I have not been able to find the reference to the ‘Bowie’ knife.
Have you still got it? |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2856
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 5:16 pm: |
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Running on with this, one finds that a Annie Hancock was the subject of an assault by a Metropolitan police officer in the March of 1888, for which he was duly charged and tried, but later the charges were dropped at appeal on April 21st 1888.
I know that I will get into trouble for this yet again, but I do honestly believe that this is the very same Annie Hancock who was found drowned in the Thames in November of 1888 in suspicious circumstances.
The Metropolitan police officer concerned was PC Pool -326 E Division, warrant number 69272. |
Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 3252
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 9:27 am: |
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Is this a torso murder?
daft question time...
"You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my mamma taught me better than that."
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Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 3256
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 11:44 am: |
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er,
just excuse me while i learn how to read.
I may spend some time lying in a darkened room,
er
thats all
Jenni
"You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my mamma taught me better than that."
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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2867
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 6:02 pm: |
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No excuses required Jenni.
I was just posting the story of a whore who got herself killed a few days after Mary Jane.
Ho hum, back to sleep. |
Jennifer Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 3259
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 - 7:41 am: |
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Ap,
I was just looking for my brain, i lost it temporaily, maybe i mis filed it at work? i found it now though
sorry,
Jenni
"You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet
Cause my mamma taught me better than that."
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