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Charles Allen Lechmere was born on 5 October 1849, [4] [5] in Soho. [1] [6] [7] [8] He was the son of John Allen Lechmere and Maria Louisa Roulson.[9] [10] His father was a boot-maker [11] who deserted the family, and moved to Northamptonshire when Charles was very young.
Charles Lechmere. Charles Allen Lechmere (5 October 1849 – 23 December 1920), also known as Charles Cross, was a van driver for the Pickfords company, and is conventionally regarded as an innocent witness who discovered the body of the first canonical Ripper victim, Mary Ann Nichols.
The site of Dorset Street in 2006, again looking west to east. Miller's Court was located on the left side of this photograph. Dorset Street, originally known as Datchet Street, was a street in Spitalfields, East London, once situated at the heart of the area's rookery.
The Thames Torso Murders, often called the Thames Mysteries or the Embankment Murders, were a sequence of unsolved murders of women occurring in London, England from 1887 to 1889.
The "From Hell" letter (also known as the "Lusk letter") [1] [2] was a letter sent with half of a preserved human kidney to George Lusk, the chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, in October 1888. [3]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The Daily Telegraph reported on 5 October 1888 that the leading members of the committee were "drawn principally from the trading class, and include a builder, a cigar-manufacturer, a tailor, a picture-frame maker, a licensed victualler, and 'an actor.'" [5] The latter may have been the entertainer Charles Reeves.
Rick Rhoades was condemned for the September 1991 killings of Charles Allen, 31, and Bradley Allen, 33. The two brothers were killed less than a day after Rhoades had been released on parole after ...