Click2Flicks - "From Hell" - Chapter 5

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>"FROM HELL"</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 5 - A HORRIBLE DEATH</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Not only was her throat slit, Mary Ann Nichols had been disemboweled with a murder weapon Dr. Henry Llewellyn (the surgeon who examined her after death) <a href="http://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/inquest_nichols.html?show=2" target="_blank"><b>described</b></a> as:</p> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>...a long-bladed knife, moderately sharp, and used with great violence...</b></i></center></font> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Near <a href="http://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/inquest_nichols.html?show=6" target="_blank"><b>the end</b></a> of the Inquest, the coroner was still surprised that the murderer got away without notice:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>It seems astonishing at first thought that the culprit should have escaped detection, for there must surely have been marks of blood about his person. If, however, blood was principally on his hands, the presence of so many slaughter-houses in the neighbourhood would make the frequenters of this spot familiar with blood-stained clothes and hands, and his appearance might in that way have failed to attract attention while he passed from <a href="http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/sitepics.w-bucks.html" target="_blank"><b>Buck’s row</b></a> [where <a href="http://www.shadws.freeserve.co.uk/chron/victim1.jpg" target="_blank"><b>the body</b></a> was <a href="http://www.jeugdwerknet.be/spelensite/doc/JackTheRipper/nichols.jpg" target="_blank"><b>found</b></a>] in the twilight into Whitechapel Road, and was lost sight of in the morning’s market traffic.</b></i></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Inspector <a href="http://www.met.police.uk/history/images/jackr3.gif" target="_blank"><b>Frederick Abberline</b></a>, from the Metropolitan Police, <a href="http://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/inquest_nichols.html?show=3" target="_blank"><b>attended</b></a> the coroner’s inquest regarding Mary Ann Nichols’ death. As lead investigator for the Ripper’s murders, Abberline had no idea what was in store for him.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch4.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="from_hell_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="from_hell_ch6.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>