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Sketch from the 13 October 1888 Illustrated London News depicting members of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee observing a suspicious character

The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee was a group of local civilian volunteers who patrolled the streets of London's Whitechapel district during the period of the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The volunteers were active mainly at night, assisting the Metropolitan Police in the search of the unknown murderer known as the "Whitechapel Murderer", "Leather Apron" and, latterly, "Jack the Ripper".

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Whitechapel Vigilance Committee

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circulation. The "From Hell letter" received by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee came with half of a preserved human kidney, purportedly taken...

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City of London Police, and private organisations such as the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee were actively involved in the search for the perpetrator or...

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preserved human kidney to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, in October 1888. The author of this letter claimed to be the...

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Wisconsin, and California Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, 1888, London: founded to capture Jack the Ripper The Oxford Vigilance Committee was formed during World...

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postmarked 15 October, was later sent to the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk. The author of this letter claimed the section...

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Charles Allen Lechmere

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contemporary true crime writers. The suggestion that he might actually be the Whitechapel Murderer was first raised by Derek Osborne in 2000 in an issue of the...

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Elizabeth Stride

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accompanied by a note, was received by the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, George Lusk. This note has become known as both the "Lusk...

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Mitre Square

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in the morning on 30 September 1888. This was the westernmost of the Whitechapel murders and the only one located within the City of London. Eddowes'...

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Durward Street

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Durward Street, formerly Buck's Row, is a street in Whitechapel, London. In the early morning of 31 August 1888, the body of Mary Ann Nichols ("Polly")...

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Melville Macnaghten

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strongly advocated "M. J. Druitt" as the likeliest suspect to have been the Whitechapel assassin – that was revealed in 1959. Macnaghten's opinion that the case...

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Ripper Street is a BBC fictional drama based in Whitechapel following on from the infamous murders of Jack the Ripper. The first episode was broadcast...

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Lusk, Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, together with the From Hell letter, Lusk was persuaded by his fellow Committee members to take them...

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cut-throats surround him". Slum clearance began 1881–83. In 1888, the Whitechapel murders by the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper prompted further...

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officers were hired, rewards were offered and citizens formed a vigilance committee to patrol the streets at night. Contemporary newspapers reported...

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hospital from St. Mary's station people on the other side of the wide Whitechapel Road would turn to look at us. I was greatly interested in the central...

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well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over...

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