Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed
“Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ended its long run at the Lyceum. The newspapers reported that the “great excesses of sunshine were at an end,” but that didn’t stop Sickert from venturing out to Deacon’s Music Hall, based on his own handwritten notes on sketches he made that night. Deacon’s was located on Myddleton Place (now Rosebery Avenue), a fifteen- or twenty-minute walk from the East End.Elizabeth Stride only recently had moved out of a lodging house on Dorset Street in Spitalfields, where she had be...en living with Michael Kidney, a waterside laborer who was in the Army Reserve. Long Liz, as her friends called her, had left Kidney before. She carried her few belongings with her this time, but there was no reason to assume she was gone for good. Kidney would later testify at her inquest that now and then she wanted her freedom and an opportunity to indulge her “drinking habits,” but after a spell of wandering off, she always came back.Elizabeth’s maiden name was Gustafsdotter and she would have turned forty-five on November 27th, although she had led most people to believe she was about ten years younger than she really was.MoreLess
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