One night
The double event, 29–30 September 1888
Elizabeth Stride was found in Dutfield's Yard, Berner Street, at about 1 a.m.; Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square about 45 minutes later; a piece of Eddowes's apron, with chalk writing above it, in Goulston Street before 3 a.m. Here are 39 recorded moments from that night, each tied to its sources.
How to read the animationTimes are this site's interpretation of reported times; nothing is added between them.
Each moment is shown for its whole clock range, because 1888 clocks and estimates disagree: a marker is large while the clock is inside the range. Solid markers are documented sightings or actions; dashed markers are estimates (for example a doctor's estimate of time of death). Dashed lines are proposed routes between the scenes, not documented movements, and carry no times.
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Base map: Booth's poverty map, published 1889 (a year after the murders), georeferenced by this site to about ±10–15 m. Colours are Booth's social classes, not crime data. Details and limits
Charles Booth, Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889, North-Eastern sheet (Whitechapel and Spitalfields extract). Wellcome Collection (L0074439), via Wikimedia Commons. Charles Booth, Life and Labour of the People. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source file (opens in a new tab).
Derived image Georeferenced by this site: the 1889 scan was warped to fit modern coordinates using 9 surviving street junctions (RMS error about 10 m, worst 15 m).
Published 1889, the year after the murders, and drawn on an Ordnance Survey base: details may differ from August 1888. Colours show Booth's 1889 classification of each street's inhabitants (his own, now-dated categories, from black 'lowest class' to gold 'wealthy'); they are not records of the murders. Location markers are positioned from this site's readings of the 1891-5 OS 1:1,056 plan, not from this image, so marker and image can disagree by 10-30 m.
- Stride case
- Eddowes case
- Estimate (dashed ring)
- Proposed route, not documented
At 23:30 on 29 Sep
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