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Description of  East End Murders (Sutton True Crime History)

As well as the murders of Jack the Ripperperhaps the most infamous in historynine other cases are investigated in detail: the still mysterious Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811 Henry Wainwright, who dismembered his mistress and rolled up her remains in a carpet in 1874 Israel Lipski, whose name became a term of derision and abuse against Jews in East London for years following his conviction for the murder of a young woman in 1887 the unsolved murder of Frances Coles in 1891 the Whitechapel High Street Newspaper Shop Murder in 1904 the Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of Sydney Street in 1910, in which a robbery plotted by Russian anarchists went badly wrong the throat-cutting William Cronin in 1925 the Bow Road Cinema Murder in 1934 and finally the shooting of George Cornell by Ronnie Kray at the Blind Beggar pub in 1966. Read more