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Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: Crime, Policing and the Inner CityPaper 1 option
Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: Crime, Policing and the Inner City
Investigative policing in Whitechapel
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Overview
Why physical clues gave little, house-to-house enquiries, witness interviews, sketches and photography, police surgeons and Thomas Bond's report, bloodhounds, the Metropolitan and City of London Police and Scotland Yard, the five victims of 1888, the Ripper name, newspaper coverage, and George Lusk's Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
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Why could detectives of the 1880s get so little from physical clues left at a murder scene?
What were house-to-house enquiries, and how far were they taken in the murder hunt?
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Why could detectives of the 1880s get so little from physical clues left at a murder scene?
Model answer
Fingerprints were not yet used for identification and there was no way to tell one person's blood from another's, so stains and marks proved nothing.
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What were house-to-house enquiries, and how far were they taken in the murder hunt?
Model answer
Officers called at every dwelling in whole streets, questioning thousands of residents and lodging-house keepers and following up hundreds of them.
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Why were witness interviews an unreliable basis for the investigation?
Model answer
Many witnesses had been drinking, saw only a shadowy figure in poor light, and gave descriptions that flatly contradicted one another.
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How were sketches used in the hunt for the killer?
Model answer
Artists drew suspects from witnesses' descriptions and newspapers printed them, in the hope that a reader would recognise the face.
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What use did the police make of photography during the murder investigation?
Model answer
The body of the last victim was photographed where it lay in her room, one of the first times a scene was recorded that way in a British murder case.
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What did the police surgeons contribute to the enquiry?
Model answer
Doctors such as George Bagster Phillips and Thomas Bond examined the bodies and reported on the wounds, the weapon and the time of death.
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