Police Superintendent Thomas Arnold was a British policeman of the Victorian era best known for his involvement in the hunt for Jack the Ripper in 1888. It was his opinion that Mary Jane Kelly was not
Copy of graffito in Goulston Street, attached to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren's report to the Home Office on the Whitechapel murders.
Jack the Ripper 1888
Mary Ann Nichols
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Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly Nichols, was the first canonical victim of the unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have murdered and mutilated at least five women
Thomas Arnold (police officer)
…would be seen and increase the antisemitic feelings of the populace, Arnold ordered the graffito to be wiped off the wall. Ever since the murder of Mary Ann Nichols rumours had been current in the East End that the murders were the work of a Jew nicknamed "Leather Apron". Although the Goulston Street graffito was…
Mortuary photograph of Mary Ann Nichols
Buck's Row, site of the murder of Mary Ann Nichols
Contemporary newspaper illustration depicting the discovery of Nichols's body
The body of Mary Ann Nichols was discovered at this gated stable entrance in Buck's Row.