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recognised, but no one came forward.
    A third, and much more gruesome letter, was delivered to George Lusk, head of the Mile End Vigilance Committee on 16 October. Accompanying it was a piece of what turned out to be human kidney. It said, in different handwriting to the other letters:
    ‘ From hell. Mr Lusk Sor I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer. Signed Catch me when You can Mishter Lusk .’
    It is impossible to say whether the real Jack the Ripper sent these badly-spelled communications. The two ears were never sent and if the killer had had time to carry out his mutilations and organ removals it seemed likely that he could have found time to cut off a victim’s ears. But he failed to do so. Some have said that the letter forecast the double killing and must, therefore, be genuine. However, by the time it was sent, on the night of Sunday 31, news was already on the streets about the murders of Eddowes and Stride.
    London was now in a state of unparalleled anxiety. The streets of Whitechapel emptied after dark and extra police were put on patrol. Handbills were posted seeking information, butchers and slaughterers were interviewed and bloodhounds were brought in. But still, there were no new developments.
    Gradually, as autumn turned to winter, the streets returned to normal and streetwalkers were once
    more to be seen plying their trade in the area’s thoroughfares.
    On 9 November, a landlord sent one of his employees to try to get some overdue rent out of a prostitute, Mary Kelly, who rented a room from him at 13 Miller’s Court but John Bowyer was unable to obtain a reply to his knock at the door. He went to a window, reached in through its broken glass and pulled aside the curtain that was drawn across. What he saw would with him for the remainder of his life. The small room contained little in the way of furniture, apart from a table and a bed but on the bed lay the body of Mary Kelly, her face horrendously mutilated and her throat cut so viciously that the knife had gone right down to her spinal column. This murder was the most horrific of all the Ripper’s deeds. The top layer of her abdomen and thighs had been removed and the abdominal cavity had been ‘emptied of its viscera’ as the doctor’s report put it. The Ripper had cut off her breasts and placed one under her head, along with her uterus and kidney, and the other by her right foot. Her liver lay between her feet, her intestines by her side and her spleen by her left side. The flaps he had sliced off her abdomen and thighs lay on the table.
    Her heart was missing. He had taken it away with him.
    Panic broke out on the streets of Whitechapel with outbreaks of mob violence directed at any stranger or anyone who seemed at all suspicious. Queen Victoria railed about the lack of lighting in the area and the standard of policing in London.
    A man called George Hutchinson claimed to have followed Mary and a man back to the house where she lived and several others had seen her with a man. She had been very drunk by all accounts. All agreed that her companion had been in his mid-thirties, but the rest of the descriptions conflicted with each other and the police were really no further forward.
    Mary Kelly’s murder is believed to have been the last committed by Jack the Ripper and the file was closed in 1892. That, of course, has not prevented speculation about his identity.
    Montagu John Druitt, was one suspect. A doctor, he disappeared around the same time that the murders stopped. Described as ‘sexually insane’ and believed by his own family to have been the Ripper, he was fished out of the Thames on 31 December.
    A Polish Jew named Kosminski who lived in Whitechapel, also became a suspect when he was diagnosed as insane after many years of hating women, especially prostitutes. He had homicidal