APPENDIX

Metropolitan Police statistics on murder and manslaughter 1881–1891

Year

Population

Murder

Manslaughter

1881

4,788,657

11

84

1882

4,990,952

10

85

1883

5,042,556

16

83

1884

5,147,727

16

74

1885

5,225,069

9

97

1886

5,364,627

8

98

1887

5,476,447

13

96

1888

5,590,576

28

94

1889

5,707,061

17

34

1890

5,825,951

16

41

1891

5,713,859

12

32

*The figures are taken from the Report of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the year 1891. The population count between the census years of 1881 and 1891 were estimates on behalf of the Registrar General.

Homicide by gender in England and in London, 1883–1893

Year

England M

England F

London M

London F

1883

188

134

39

38

1884

178

148

29

32

1885

172

138

25

30

1886

181

130

34

26

1887

181

171

30

45

1888

155

146

30

39

1889

159

131

42

37

1890

160

126

38

35

1891

158

157

31

39

1892

153

147

31

38

1893

185

152

28

32

*Figures taken from annual reports of the Registrar General.

Homicide cases featured in this book

Unsolved murders (chapter number in brackets)

Total number of victims: 14

Annie Chapman (10)

Lucy Clark (9)

Catherine Eddowes (10)

Annie Mary French (8)

Elizabeth Gorman (11)

Mary Jane Kelly (10)

Rose Mylett (10)

Mary Ann Nichols (10)

Elizabeth Stride (10)

Elizabeth ‘Annie’ Smith (8)

Emma Smith (10)

Martha Tabram (10)

Emma Wakefield (11)

Unknown body found at New Scotland Yard (7)

Murder cases ending in acquittal

Total: 7

John King (1)

Michael Lewis (6)

Eliza Jane Schummacher (11)

Frances Wright (9)

Newborn twins of Dora Hart (12)

Newborn child of Florence Lovett (12)

Murder cases ending in conviction and death sentence

Total: 5

Elizabeth Bartlett (16)

Emily Bignall (3)

Sidney Pierrepoint (13)

Joseph Rumbold (14)

Margaret White (9)

Murder cases ending in verdict of guilty, but insane

Total: 7

Frank and Bertie Morris Aston (13)

Sarah Brown (9)

Mary Newman (9)

Frank Reynolds (13)

Mabel Spickernell (13)

Charlotte Whale (3)

Murder cases ending in manslaughter conviction

Total: 1

Clarence Henry Longman (13)

Murder–suicide

Total: 3

Susannah Barrell (9)

Major Thomas Hare (3)

Hannah Potzdamer (5)

Murder cases in which defendant was found unfit
to stand trial

Total: 1

Percy Ostler (15)

Manslaughter cases ending in conviction.

Total: 3

Elizabeth Gibbs (2)

William Hall (5)

William Walker (4)

Manslaughter cases ending in acquittal

Total: 12

Annie Astell (4)

David Cavalier (2)

Jane Healey (9)

John Kellar (4)

James Langley (2)

Robert Marjoram (3)

Michael Pattern (5)

Emily Roberts (9)

Ann Rowley (2)

Mary Sandford (9)

John Shorting (4)

James Williamson (2)

Other cases (excluding large number of unknown victims of infanticide):

George Best, manslaughter charge dismissed by magistrate (4)

Henry Talbot, manslaughter charge dismissed by magistrate (4)

William Bate Curner, natural causes (6)

Jane Mulchay, manslaughter charge dropped before trial (13)

Newborn child of Annie Burbridge, murder charge dropped before trial (12)

Newborn child of Dinah Israel, manslaughter charge dismissed by Grand Jury (12)

Newborn child of Julia Magson, murder charged dropped before trial (12)

Newborn child of Catherine Morgan, manslaughter charge dropped before trial (12)

Newborn child of Ruth Newman, murder charge dismissed by Grand Jury (12)