Book description
A shocking and brutal murder had taken place in the city in February
that year, and the words 'Jack Ripper is at the back of this door'
were found written in chalk on a door at the scene of the crime. When
he was arrested, the accused, William Bury, admitted that he was
'afraid he would be arrested as Jack the Ripper'.
The police investigation uncovered some disturbing details. William
Bury was a small dark-haired man who was known to have been violent
towards women. He had been born and brought up in the Midlands but had
moved to the East End of London in the late autumn of 1887. On 20
January 1889, he and his wife travelled by boat to Dundee. This meant
that he had arrived in London before the start of the Jack the Ripper
murders and had left around the same time that they ceased. Could this
be coincidence, people wondered. Could it also be a coincidence that
the murder in Dundee carried all the hallmarks of a 'ripper' murder?
In the month before the trial, the local newspapers in Dundee began
to run sensational stories linking the accused with the notorious
Whitechapel murders. When the trial opened to a packed courtroom, many
in the public gallery were wondering if the man standing in the dock
was none other than Jack the Ripper himself.
In this sensational and ground-breaking book, Euan Macpherson
presents the evidence that the long arm of the law really did catch up
with Jack the Ripper . . . in a dingy basement flat in Dundee in the
cold winter months of early 1889.
Euan Macpherson is a librarian who has written for a number of
publications in both the UK and USA.
