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ò Jack the Ripper was § a famous victim. ò frequently changed her address because:

§ a dangerous . § she had no money to pay her rent every month. § she always changed her job. ò He attacked § several women in 1888 . § several men in 1888 . ò On September 8, 1888 : “ she was thrown out of her lodging house to

ò His name “Jack the Ripper” was created by § the police. earn money for her bed ”: §she chose to go out and buy a new house. § the killer himself. §she was forced to go out to find money.

§ journalists. ò She had a wretched (=very difficult ) life. Give the English equivalents:

ò His method : “ Their throats were cut prior to Ï elle“ne s’est jamais remise de la perte de son mari et de son enfant”: she ………… ……. …………………...... ………………………………….. abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs ”.

Draw some symbols on the body to illustrate his crimes TEXT 5: THE DOUBLE MURDER ò Elizabeth Stride was forced to prostitute herself because: TEXT 2: IN THE LATE 19 TH CENTURY § she lived on her own (her husband was dead). ò London was § deserted. § her husband was poor and brutal. § very crowded (= many people). ò Elizabeth’s body was discovered at __ :__ (time ) on the night of September 29th, 1888. ò People in the area of were generally § rich. ò was murdered on the same night. § poor. Put the following information in the chronological order: ò Many women were prostitutes because they had § no money. N°…..: She was released by the police and back on the street. § no family. N°…..: She was arrested by the police because she was drunk.

ò The police in London was called § . N°…..: She was murdered by Jack the Ripper. § Metropolitan Police Service. N°…..: She was on the way to her daughter’s house to get some money.

§ Federal Bureau Service. TEXT 6 : THE FIFTH VICTIM TEXT 3: THE FIRST VICTIM ò The atmosphere in London was: § very calm.

§ very tense. ò Polly Nichols’s body was discovered § in the afternoon. ò Mary Kelly’s lover , Joe Barnett, went to Kelly’s room on Nov.8, 1888 § at night . because he had a problem : § he was very sick and was forced to leave her.

ò Her death : “ She suffered a deep slash to her throat § he lost his job and had no money to give her. ò The next morning, Mary Kelly’s body was discovered in her bed. and severe cuts to her abdomen and womb ”. It was horrific : her body was entirely mutilated . Draw some symbols on the body to illustrate her death Show the 2 parts of her body that were still recognizable: ò She was a prostitute and she was § alcoholic. § a drug addict.

ò She lived § in an apartment with her five children.

§ with other prostitutes, paying for food and accommodation. § Federal Bureau Service. TEXT 1: JACK THE RIPPER TEXT 3: THE FIRST VICTIM “Jack the Ripper” is the best-known name given to an It all began on August 31 st , 1888 at approximately unidentified serial killer who was active in the poor 3.40am, when the body of Polly Nichols was areas around the Whitechapel district of London in discovered lying on the ground before a gated 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by stable entrance on Whitechapel's Buck's Row - a someone claiming to be the murderer. The killer was narrow, dimly lit passage. also called “The Whitechapel Murderer” and “Leather She suffered a deep slash to her throat and severe cuts to her abdomen Apron” at the time. and womb. Polly was believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper. The Ripper’s attacks typically involved female prostitutes from very poor The daughter of a locksmith, she was born in London on August 1845 areas. Their throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal and married William Nichols, a printer's machinist, in 1864. They had of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that five children before their marriage broke up in 1880, some pointing the their killer possessed anatomical or surgical knowledge. blame to William, who was said to have had an affair with their nurse Jack the Ripper’s real identity is still a mystery. He wanted to terrify a during Polly's last pregnancy, and others to Polly for her heavy drinking city and become famous all around the country with his horribly and deserting her family on many occasions. Polly spent her remaining mutilated victims . years in workhouses and boarding houses, living off her meager earnings

as a prostitute. She was a poor, destitute woman that most liked yet pitied.

TEXT 4: THE SECOND VICTIM TEXT 2: LONDON IN THE 19 th CENTURY Annie Chapman, known as "Dark Annie," was a In the mid-19 th century, many immigrants arrived in 47-year old destitute prostitute who roamed the London. The area of Whitechapel became streets and moved from one common lodging overcrowded. Work and housing conditions were house to the next when she could afford to pay for very bad. Robbery, violence and alcohol a room. dependency were commonplace, and the poverty On the morning of September 8, 1888 she was thrown out of her lodging drove many women to prostitution. house to earn money for her bed. Her body was found several hours later In October 1888, London’s Metropolitan Police in the backyard of 29 Hanbury Street in the same condition as Polly Service estimated that there were 1200 prostitutes Nichol's. Annie married John Chapman, a coachman, in 1869. The couple and about 62 brothels in Whitechapel. had three children but sadly, her firstborn died of meningitis and her Whitechapel was a notorious den of immorality: racism, crime… In 1888, youngest son was born crippled. Likely due to the stress caused by the a series of vicious and grotesque murders attributed to "Jack the Ripper" misfortunes of their children, the couple took to heavy drinking and received unprecedented coverage in the media. separated. They lived apart for four years during which time Annie received an allowance from her husband until his death in 1886. Life became much worse after his loss. Suffering from depression and alcoholism, Annie never seemed to recover from the loss of her husband and child and died a homeless prostitute.

TEXT 5: THE DOUBLE MURDER Elizabeth Stride was born in Sweden in 1843, the daughter of a farmer, who most likely came to England as a domestic. She married a carpenter by the name of Thomas Stride in 1869. It is known that Thomas died in 1884 of heart disease. She did occasionally prostituted herself, but earned the bulk of her living as a domestic. She was described by associates as very TEXT 6: THE FIFTH VICTIM good-natured. Liz, dressed to go out, left her boarding house after 7:00 on the night of September 29, 1888. Approximately six hours later her Nerves were starting to settle in Whitechapel. There huddled body was discovered in a narrow yard on Berner Street. had not been a murder for over a month and the streets Amazingly enough, another woman was murdered by Jack the Ripper on began to fill again after dark. Mary Kelly was one of the same night as Elizabeth Stride. Her name was Catherine Eddowes, a the streetwalkers resuming her trade, desperate to friendly woman known for her good spirits. She was believed to make the rent she had fallen several weeks behind on. In 1884 she came to London and found work at a prostitute herself when under the influence of alcohol. On the night of the double murder, she told John Kelly, the man she had been living with for brothel. the last seven years, that she was off to borrow money from her daughter. Being an attractive woman, she did not have to rely solely on prostitution, But Catherine never arrived at her daughter's house but instead was for her various lovers often supported her. On the evening of November arrested by the police for drunkenness. After sleeping it off, she was 8, 1888, Mary's lover Joe Barnett came to apologize for being out of work released at approximately 1:00 am. The woman's body in Mitre Square and unable to give her any money. When they parted at 8:00 that night, was identified as the drunk they had released a few hours earlier. he didn't realize it would be the last time he would see her alive. The next morning, the landlord's assistant knocked on the door to Mary's room at 13 Miller's Court, planning to ask for the past due rent. When there was no answer, he reached inside a broken window and peered through the curtains. What he saw inside was Mary's mutilated corpse lying on the bed, her body so viscously mangled that Joe Barnett would only be able READ THE TEXTS AND to identify her by her hair and eyes.

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