Today in History

August 31, 1888

The Murder of Mary Ann Nichols

Charles Cross, a market stall operator, was the first to discover the body of Mary Ann Nichols, laying on the ground on what is now Durward Street, in the Whitechapel area of London near the London Hospital. She had last been seen alive walking the Whitechapel Road in a new bonnet, one she hoped would assist her earning capacity in the lurid trades plied in the area. No reports of anything untoward were made, no sounds were heard, but Mary Ann Nichols' throat was cut and her abdomen ripped by a large jagged wound. She was the first victim of the notorious Jack the Ripper. Four additional women would be killed in the area before the series of murders would end, unsolved.

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