Whitechapel 1:30 PM sheathed dark. In a darkened corner, a woman making out with dark-suited men. Approximately 20 minutes later, the woman was found to have become corpses.
That’s the last time that Catherine Eddowes was seen on a street corner, at St James’s Passage in the Whitechapel area, September 30, 1888. Catherine is the fourth victim of Jack The Ripper, the serial killer who mutilated the victim liked. Its identity was never revealed until now. Jack The Ripper was a legend sadism of London, a city of gray that induced a sense of melancholy.
Two centuries after the serial killings, the legend of Jack The Ripper’s worldwide still anesthetized and a tourist attraction. This is one example of creative management of tourism with a capital of narrative, not just the city or its natural beauty. Although it was a vicious and melancholy narrative.
Darkness began to imagine when you arrive at Tower Hill at around 19:30. The cold crept body. Spring is just moved in early April. Armed with a guide booklet “supermarket tour” Jack The Ripper for three pounds (USD 41 250), penyusuran trace the killer begins. Tourism is quite cheap in supermarkets expensive city like London.
Based on the handbook, the first point that must be visited are St. James’s Passage which empties into the Mitre Square, where the body of Catherine Eddowes was found. Its location approximately 20 minutes walk from Tower Hill. Guide the little book was pretty descriptive, incorporating maps, excerpts of stories like the testimony of people who see Catherine the last time, to the right and left directions. Altogether quite reached on foot.
This handbook brings me to the five locations of the victims of The Ripper murders in Whitechapel area. This area is not promising beauty, just a variety of dark buildings, apartments, offices, mosques (The East London Mosque), shops, and also the bar. Some even associated with the old bar Jack The Ripper. Even though ancient, atmospheric bars are very comfortable, not feel haunted.
The ancient bar, for example, Still and Star Pub which was founded in 1880, Hoop and Grapes Pub (year 1600), The White Hart Pub (1721), and The Ten Bells (1753). The last bar is thought to be a favorite location of The Ripper to have a drink. Annie Chapman, whose body was found in Hanbury Street still had time to work at The Ten Bells on the night he was killed at the end of the dagger of The Ripper.
Five victims
The victim believes ripperologist The Ripper is five female sex workers. The Ripper’s killings were part of the Whitechapel Murders of events, namely killing 11 women, who never revealed. The Ripper’s fifth victim was Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Mary Jane Kelly, and Catherine Eddowes. They were killed in the August-November 1888.
In the Whitechapel area of East London is indeed a red area, which in 1888 became a living area of about 1200 sex workers. At that time, severe poverty in London’s Whitechapel make faces so grave. Prostitution and crime so rampant here. Whitechapel besutan also underlie some of the stories of British author Charles Dickens, for example, in his somber, Oliver Twist (1838).
About who exactly Jack The Ripper, many theories circulating. Some believed the Ripper was a surgeon. Because, the way he mutilated the victim so neatly reflects the skill. There also are convinced the Ripper was a butcher.
As an increasingly late nights, some alley way should I go to location across the Ripper murders lonely silence. Only once in the human past. Suddenly I smell the fragrant perfume when I passed by a Hispanic woman at the end of menor berparas Fashion Street. Maybe he’s going to the club. Soon, without warning sound of a shrill scream broke the silence “Aaarrrgghh …!”
Damn, apparently a bunch of half drunken men suddenly appeared and screamed, fun scaring the middle of dozens of tourists who also trace the Ripper.
Stomach started rumbling. I finally took the drop in Brick Lane, which can be achieved through the Fashion Street. Brick Lane is a narrow street was filled with Asian cuisine restaurant and the Middle East. This area is a descendant of immigrants bag so often called, Banglatown Bangladesh. This time, it was pretty crowded though not a week night. Faces typical of South Asia appear here and there.
After eating a plate of rice with vegetable curry for 4 pounds (USD 55 000), penyusuran proceeded to the location of the latter, ie, Durward Street, where Mary Ann Nichols, were killed. Hours are shown at 23:00. The corridor was quiet death! Every time to see the location of the killing according to the instructions book like a voice murmured in mind, “Oh .., he was murdered here.”
After photographing, the foot was rushed to Whitechapel High Street, catch a bus to go home to Hendon, north London. Still an hour away. Done already suspense tonight.