GCSE HISTORY COURSEWORK
THE MURDERS OF JACK THE RIPPER
3. Study Sources D and E. How useful are Sources D and E in helping you to understand why the Ripper was able to avoid capture?
Source D is taken from evidence given by Elizabeth Long at the inquest into the death of Annie Chapman. In the source she is describing the man seen talking to Annie before she was killed. The source tells us that the man Annie was seen talking to was “shabby genteel”. It also describes him as being dark complexioned, wearing a deerstalker hat, being taller than Annie and about 40. The source suggests that he may have been a foreigner, and from the description of what he was wearing, he may have been upper class.