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When you hear "Jack the Ripper" and "Liverpool" all in one sentence, it is usually in regard to James Maybrick and the controversial "Diary" that came to light in 1992 and was first discussed in Shirley Harrison's
The Diary of Jack the Ripper in 1993, published by Smith Gryphon and in later books by Ms. Harrison as well.
However, it could be that two of the Ripper's victims had Liverpool connections as well.
The last canonical victim, Mary Jane Kelly, killed on the morning of 9 November 1888, might have been in a Catholic Girls Reformatory in Old Swan in 1881, as discussed in a recent
thread.
However, the origins of Mary Jane Kelly, such a common name, are as shrouded in mystery as the truth about the Ripper himself, as we discussed in
Ripperologist last month. In the article "Mary Jane Kelly: From May Place, Liverpool, to Miller's Court?" on the 1881 census listing showing a Mary Jane Kelly at that institution on Broad Green Lane that we finalized with help from a number of forum members, we discussed the problems of research on the woman killed in Miller's Court, Spitalfields, London. If anybody would like a copy of that article, please
email me and I will send you the pdf.
Another possible victim of Jack the Ripper was
Carrie Brown, murdered in New York City on the night of April 23-24, 1891. Carrie Brown, known as "Old Shakespeare" was said to have been born in Liverpool.
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