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Hanbury St. Graffiti?
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Hanbury St. Graffiti?
Author: Otto K. Gross
Tuesday, 29 October 2002 - 09:07 pm |        | I'm trying to find out if anyone has heard of a story regarding graffiti that was written on a wall at the crime scene at 29 Hanbury St.
Something to the effect:
Five - Fifteen more and I will give myself up.
Has anyone heard of this?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Otto Gross |
Author: alex chisholm
Tuesday, 29 October 2002 - 10:08 pm | | Hi Otto
The Daily Telegraph, 10 Sept. 1888, page 3, reported the following:
"A number of sensational stories are altogether without corroboration, such, for instance, as the tale that writing was seen on the wall of No. 29: "I have now done three, and intend to do nine more and give myself up." One version says some such threat as "Five - Fifteen more and I give myself up," was written upon a piece of paper that was picked up."
I don’t think such claims were ever corroborated.
Best Wishes
alex |
Author: alex chisholm
Wednesday, 30 October 2002 - 07:14 pm | | Hi Otto
Below are a couple of reports which dismiss claims of a message being left in Hanbury-street.
Star 8 Sept. page 2
The people, and even the police, were so excited that all sorts of rumours were flying about. The woman living next door declared that this morning there was written on the door of No. 29, “This is the fourth, I will murder sixteen more and then give myself up.” There was no basis for this story, however, there being no chalk mark on the door except “29.”
Pall Mall Gazette 10 Sept. page 7
No corroboration of the reported statement that the victim was served in a public-house at Spitalfields Market on its opening at 5 A.M. can be gained, while the report that the murderer left a message on a wall in the yard which was made out to read “Five: 15 more, and then give myself up,” turned out to be untrue.
Best Wishes
alex |
Author: Otto K. Gross
Wednesday, 30 October 2002 - 07:35 pm | | Thank you so much. I'm going through old note books and came across this reference. I'd never come across the details.
Otto |
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