Hello and welcome back to yesterday today, today, the offshoot podcast of Dark Historys.

I'm your host, Ben, as always. To be honest, I don't know why I always say that. I'm always your host. It never changes, not for nearly 10 years, but still some reason that's just stuck in my head as the way I open.

So, yep, I'm your host, Ben, as always.

This episode is for the week of the 9th of November.

And if you recall, I think, a couple of yesterday today episodes back, we were talking quite a bit about Jack the Ripper.

And unsurprisingly, perhaps, this week, we're straight back there again.

As 137 years ago to this very day was a big day in that story.

So we're going to dig deep into that a little bit.

So to sort of catch up, there's not really been anything happening for just over a month with the Jack the Ripper story,

which means that actually the morning papers from the 9th of November were more or less the same as what's been happening for the last or four weeks,

which is basically then printing fairly tenuous links and hoaxes. And that's been about it.

And yes, like I say, this morning, the 9th of November, absolutely no surprise, it's exactly the same thing.

The most prevalent piece in the Friday papers was a

supposed piece of paper that was picked up in Spittlefields and that was reported on quite

heavily so the story for that goes. The East End murders. The following notice was read out

to the police late on Saturday night as printed in the information at Whitechapel. Today, a piece of paper was

picked up in Spittlefields, which was written, Dear Boss, in spite of all your police precautions,

and in spite of the efforts of the vigilance committee, I committed another murder last night

and have hid the body away in Osborne Street, headless, legless, armless and naked. Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.

Although the matter is looked upon as a hoax, all constables were ordered to make every inquiry

into the neighbourhood to see if anything had been found or whether anyone was missing. They were,

however, specially enjoined to use their utmost endeavours to try to trace the author of the writing.

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