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The Two Republics
Mexico

12 August 1896

A New Letter from the Metropolis of the Occident.

Guadalajara, August 9.
Last Sunday we were treated to "Jack the Ripper" at the Degollado theatre, and the ruthless disembowelling of gruesome memory was resurrected, to the delight of our gentry with a penchant for the morbid. "I wants to make yer flesh creep!" and I suppose the posters headed "Jack el Destripador" were displayed in the hotel dining room as a species of appetizer, an intellectual sherry and bitters.


Related pages:
  Early Ripper Plays
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 4 October 1891 
       Press Reports: Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 8 January 1889 
       Press Reports: East London Observer - 17 August 1889 
       Press Reports: El Siglo XIX - 6 June 1896 
       Press Reports: Galveston Daily News - 29 January 1890 
       Press Reports: Manitoba Daily Free Press - 8 January 1889 
       Press Reports: The Two Republics - 12 August 1896 
       Press Reports: The Two Republics - 21 January 1894 
       Press Reports: The Two Republics - 6 June 1896 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 11 April 1930 
       Press Reports: Times [London] - 30 December 1948 
       Press Reports: Williamsport Sunday Grit - 27 September 1891 
       Ripper Media: Jack the Ripper Of Eene Misgreep 
       Ripper Media: The Ripper (Adolf Paul) 

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