Illustrated Police News from 1888

Illustration of Polly Nicholls in the mortuary

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Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols was the first of the five canonical victims killed by Jack the Ripper.

Slain on the night of August 31st, 1888, her body was found in front of a gated stable entrance in Buck's Row, her throat slit and her body slashed.

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Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims were all prostitutes. This led people to believe that the Ripper was either a woman scorned by her husband's debauchery, a man who contracted a sexual disease from a prostitute, a man of society who thought prostitutes should be eliminated from society or a man whose wife had left him and become a prostitute.

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