How useful are sources D and E in helping you to understand why the ripper was able to avoid capture?

She also could have been jittery as she was being questioned in public and she could be scared of what she saw so she may be rushing her testimony and making mistakes. It was also dark due to no street lights.  So she may have not seen the man properly. Once again we know that she was making mistakes as she said: “he looked to me like a foreigner”. But how can she tell he looked like a foreigner?  As she is mistaking most of her details she could have been mistaking all her details so her account will help the police very slightly and the evidence is limited.

 Even though the evidence is very limited it could be useful in some ways. For example as she was the last person to see Annie alive, the police would have a clue to what time Annie died.

Source E is a newspaper article so there may be exaggeration for the public to buy their newspaper. Source E is furious with the police by saying that they don’t have enough security “the police force on the spot should be strengthened”.  We also learn that the police did not listen to the informer and the police referred him from one department to the other as they could not deal with queries efficiently. “Referred from one police office to another”.  Not only do we learn about the police from Source E but we also learn about the bad state of Whitechapel.  The purpose of this article was for the newspaper to argue the police were not doing enough to capture Jack the Ripper. This was only done for the newspaper company to sell more newspapers and they are blaming the police for the crimes that are occurring.

This is a very useful source as we learn that the police could not “clear the streets of defiant ruffianism, which continued to make night hideous.” We also learn that the area of Whitechapel was a major crime area and to support this it also states “everyone containing some headquarters of infamy”. We also learn that due to all the “narrow, dark and crooked lanes” that the murderer could kill and hide in the alleys. So if Jack the Ripper had just killed a woman all he had to do was run just a couple of minutes and he would never be caught.