Click2Flicks - "From Hell" - Chapter 4

<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 4 - THE TERROR BEGINS</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">How did "Whitechapel" get its name? According to 19th century <a href="http://www.davidric.dircon.co.uk/whitechapel.html" target="_blank"><b>accounts</b></a>, the place owes its description to a small chapel "whose white exterior made it a land mark on the way out of the City" of London. Not everything in this part of town was evil.</p> <p>Most streets in Whitechapel were narrow. People often lived in <a href="http://www.davidric.dircon.co.uk/images/oldnich3.jpg" target="_blank"><b>cellar rooms</b></a> with little light and ventilation. The area was filled with <a href="http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/dst-pubs.html" target="_blank"><b>pubs</b></a> where the Ripper’s victims found their "customers." Some of the popular hangouts of 1888, like "<a href="http://www.destination-uk.com/images/tenbells.jpg" target="_blank"><b>The Ten Bells</b></a>," are still open and are still famous.</p> <p>On August 31, 1888 the Ripper’s terror first struck Whitechapel. <a href="http://www.accomodata.co.uk/mary.gif" target="_blank"><b>Mary Ann</b></a> ("Polly") Nichols, a 42-year-old mother of five who <a href="http://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/sitepics.w-fdean.html" target="_blank"><b>lived</b></a> on Flower and Dean Street, was brutally murdered. Her father, <a href="http://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/inquest_nichols.html" target="_blank"><b>testifying</b></a> at the inquest, said <a href="http://www.execpc.com/~pauer/pollyn.gif" target="_blank"><b>his daughter</b></a> was “too good” to have enemies. No one in the area heard any screams. By the time a <a href="http://www.execpc.com/~pauer/nichols.html" target="_blank"><b>constable</b></a> found her, Mary Ann Nichols had been dead about 30 minutes.</p> <p>People weren’t shocked that a murder occurred in Whitechapel. They were upset about the way <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/realmedia/radiomerseyside/rip.ram" target="_blank"><b>the deed</b></a> was done. (Follow the link to the BBC’s Radio Merseyside to hear the story. You will need Real Audio. Move the “play” button ahead to 10:15 and stop it at about 13:50. We will cue you to other audio clips in this hour-long broadcast as our story proceeds.)</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="from_hell_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="from_hell_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="from_hell_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>