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The Surgeon who threatened to rip people up

On 19 September 1888 Sir Charles Warren, Head of the Metropolitan police, named a suspect in the search for a murderer who would soon be called Jack the Ripper. He wrote: “A man named Puckeridge was released from an asylum on 4 August. He was educated as a surgeon – has threatened to rip people […]

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Onion called a disgrace to humanity

In August 1882 London magistrates began to lose patience with William Onion. Earlier that year he accepted a new life in Quebec with his travel paid by a benefactor. On the train going to the boat he absconded and went on a drunken rampage in Canning Town. The media claimed he had over two-hundred convictions. […]