Introduction
Victims
Suspects
Witnesses
Ripper Letters
Police Officials
Official Documents
Press Reports
Victorian London
Message Boards
Ripper Media
Authors
Dissertations
Timelines
Games & Diversions
Photo Archive
Ripper Wiki
Casebook Examiner
Ripper Podcast
About the Casebook


Most Recent Posts:
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by Herlock Sholmes 6 minutes ago.
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by Herlock Sholmes 33 minutes ago.
Maybrick, James: Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine - by Observer 38 minutes ago.
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by Herlock Sholmes 40 minutes ago.
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by FrankO 44 minutes ago.
Maybrick, James: Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine - by Observer 1 hour ago.
Maybrick, James: Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine - by Lombro2 10 hours ago.
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - by Herlock Sholmes 10 hours ago.

Most Popular Threads:
Motive, Method and Madness: Did The Ripper Remove Organs? - (19 posts)
Annie Chapman: Chapman Timeline - (18 posts)
Pub Talk: Favorite Recipes - (13 posts)
General Suspect Discussion: Profiling Questionnaire: "Cold Blooded or Not" "Criminal or Not" - (9 posts)
Shades of Whitechapel: The Long Island Ripper - (5 posts)
Catherine Eddowes: From Mitre Square to Goulston Street - Some thoughts. - (4 posts)


Daily News
United Kingdom
25 June 1883

CLERKENWELL - THE ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER - Police-Inspector Poule, of the G Division, reported to Mr. Barstow, the magistrate at the Court, on Saturday afternoon, that the woman Sarah Ann Kelly, alleged to have been stabbed in the neck by her husband, James Kelly, at 21 Cottage-Lane, St. Luke's, was in a dying state, almost all hopes having been given up of her recovery. - Mr. Barstow, accompanied by the Inspector and the Chief Clerk, at once drove to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in order that the injured woman's deposition might be taken down in writing. When the prisoner, James Kelly, (who has only been married to his wife a fortnight) was charged with the attempted murder on Friday, evidence was given by his mother-in-law that in consequence of a quarrel with his wife he stabbed her under the left ear with a pocket knife, inflicting a deep wound. - The prisoner stands remanded till next Friday.


Related pages:
  James Kelly
       Message Boards: James Kelly 
       Press Reports: John Blunts Monthly - 16 December 1929 
       Press Reports: Morning Advertiser - 20 October 1888 
       Press Reports: Times - 2 August 1883 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - James Kelly 
       Ripper Media: Jimmy Kelly's Year of Ripper Murders 
       Ripper Media: Prisoner 1167: The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper 
       Suspects: James Kelly