Feb 06 2011
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“ She threatened to ‘Whitechapel’ him. The prosecutrix interefered, whereupon prisoner threatened to ‘Jack the Ripper’ her, and struck her on the hand with a knife.
— Fascinating post at Cat’s Meat Shop about false Jack The Rippers (falsely accused men, those claiming to be him, etc) in nineteenth-century London, including this passage about a female prisoner using the terminology of Jack the Ripper as a threat.
