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An original and complete 30-page issue of September 22, 1888, London Illustrated News containing a news report on the police investigation into the infamous “Jack The Ripper” Whitechapel murders. [No. 2579, Vol. XCIII (September 22, 1888, pp. 330-360).]
A series of lighthearted and vaguely humorous vignette sketches — one of which is captioned “[t]rying to identify a supposed murderer in Whitechapel police station” — depicts the ineffectual efforts of the police to solve the murders. Another sketch features an “inconsolable dog” upset by the detention of his master.
The lead editorial in this issue, written by ILN editor John Payn, addresses the unsolved murders as follows:
“Some purists (who live in the West-End of London) have expressed their contempt for the panic in Whitechapel, and their indignation at the interest that is excited there by half a dozen murders, committed by some uncultured person.”
The London elites were clearly not taking these murders very seriously.
No. 2579, Vol. XCIII (September 22, 1888, pp. 330-360).
