Miter Square

The location of the body of Catharine Eddowes "Ripper's Corner", Miter Square as it looked until 2017.

Same position in 2019.

Miter Square is a small, approximately 500 square meter square in the City of London .

It is connected in the southwest with Miter Street , in the northwest with Creechurch Street and in the northeast via St James's Passage (formerly: Church Passage ) with Duke's Place . Until the dissolution of the English monasteries in the 16th century, the Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, was located in the same place .

The body of Catherine Eddowes , the fourth victim of the series of murders attributed to Jack the Ripper , was found on September 30, 1888 at 1:44 am on the southern corner of the square (now also called "Ripper's Corner") . Miter Square is the only Ripper murder scene outside of Tower Hamlets' borough . Only 44 minutes earlier, the body of the third Ripper victim Elizabeth Stride was found in Berner Street, about a kilometer away .

In 2017 the course was redesigned.

literature

• Donald Rumbelow . The Complete Jack the Ripper (True Crime). Fully revised and updated edition. Penguin Books Ltd. London 2004, ISBN 0-14-017395-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robertson group. Tudor London . MC Donald. 1968 ISBN 978-0-356-02481-3 . Pp. 47-50.
2. ↑ Rumbelow. The Complete Jack the Ripper (True Crime) . 1988, pp. 284-285

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '50.3 "  N , 0 ° 4' 40.5"  W.