The News from Whitechapel: Jack the Ripper in the Daily Telegraph

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This text is an annotated transcription of the articles that detailed the Jack the Ripper murders as they were reported by
The Daily Telegraph , the world’s largest-selling daily newspaper in 1888. Providing explanations where needed, each chapter is devoted to one of the Ripper’s victims through transcripts of
The Daily Telegraph
coverage of her murder, its investigation and subsequent inquest. Interspersed with the transcripts are footnotes (the contents of these are drawn from Home Office and Metropolitan Police files, past and present Ripper books, other contemporary newspaper reports, and the authors’ research) that serve to correct what the newspapers got wrong, expand on certain points, or explain to the reader things that were common knowledge during this time period.