23 February

James Smith identifies the prisoner Palmer as Richard Turpin.

Dick Turpin Executed

No night ride to York, no Black Bess: the real Dick Turpin was an Essex gang robber and killer, hanged at York in 1739 for stealing horses.

Sir Melville Macnaghten writes the memorandum naming Druitt, Kosminski and Michael Ostrog.

Jack the Ripper Unsolved

Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified.