European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine there s Money in murder brits gear up for 100th anniversary of Jack the Ripper slayings by Al Webb United press International they be celebrated Queen Elizabeth us Silver Jubilee. The titanic s 75th Deal Day an the 50lh anniversary of King Edward via abdication now it s Jack the Ripper s turn old bloody Jack is about to get the full multimillion Dollar Media hype including his own spot on prime time British and us. Television. The occasion is the Centenary of the Ripper s claim to infamy a series of grisly murders of prostitutes in the squalor of London s Gas Iii fog shrouded East end the 100lh anniversary of the Ripper slayings actually does not begin until aug 31.1988. But British entrepreneurs with american help Are already at work proving there is Money in murder eventually in memory of the Man who made mass murder a household phrase a new cottage Industry is Lamg form a deluge of books and Magazine articles a television minis nes. T shirts Post cards posters even a new cocktail meanwhile. Blons and tourists alike Are swarming through the East end s seedy streets retracing the byways where the arc fiend carved a deadly Swath and terrorized a City from aug 31 to nov. 9. 1888 in truth there is not really a lot to see. The East end is still Grubby but in Jack the Ripper s Day it was a cesspool where 900 000 slum dwellers fought to live. And sometimes just to Light ignored even by the Church of England it was in Buck s Row. Opposite Essex wharf. Beloro Dawn on Friday. Aug 31.1888. Hat George Cross spoiled what he thought was a Tarpaulin what he Foundas the disembowel a body of Mary Anne Polly Nichols her Throat Cut in the first of the so called Whitechapel murders. Buck s Row today is Durward Street but no More pleasant for the name Essex wharf Long since fallen into disuse is still there. But the spot where Nichols died is buried under a junk Yard. No. 29 Hanbury is where Annie Chapman fell to the Ripper s Blade on saturday sept. 8. Is covered today by the huge Green Structure of Walney s brewery across irom the Bangladesh Biman Jonata travel Agency. Early on sunday. Sell 30, the Ripper struck twice More killing swedish born prostitute Elizabeth Long Liz stride in a Small court Between Berner Street and Back court Lane and then Catherine Eddowes in Mitre Square several blocks away. Berner Street is now Ennques Street and children play soccer at the Harry Gosling infants school on Tarmac Over the spot where stride fell. A private parking lot. Where men in business suits store their cars covers Eddowes death site. The Ripper s last and gris Liest murder was that of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly in room no 13.26 Dorset St photographs of her disembowel a remains still can Appal no matter How Many limes the viewer has seen death the room where she died is gone now. Crushed somewhere beneath or near a multistory car Park Dorset Street has been renamed Duval Street but it is unmarked instead it a labelled simply private Road " but tourists still mock there around the Corner irom the site of Kelly s doom is the Jack the Ripper pub. Which was called the ten Bells the night Annie Chapman left in Lor her Date with the Ripper. A Gold lettered sign in the pub s window tells the Story possibly the greatest murder mystery of modern Friday. November 27. 1987 Limos. The Ripper brutally killed six women in Throe months All in this very Small area of London s East and one of Icse unfortunate victims was last seen leaving these premises " the pub s Landlady Yvonne Ostrowski plainly intends to make the Ripper Centenary a paying proposition she ii planning to shirts exactly what the logo will be she in l saying and she has concoct cd a Ripper  a blood red. Grenadine based cocktail tourists take a hint it you go looking Tor Ripper thrills expect a up Oil by 20th Century mass murder standards. Jack the Ripper s live victims the generally accepted number rips a what or wlm e pah Cinn  Coom paltry the mystique is not in numbers but in acceptance that they were the Lindl serial slayings to have widespread Public Impact and in the folklore that has grown up around the tact they have never been solved. And probably never will be not that there Aren t suspects there Are. Aplenty including the Duke of Clarence. Queen Victoria s grandson. Famed artist Waller sick Crl. A Lailor Banister named Montague John Dritt. Russian Chansl agent Alexei Pedachenko. Polish jew tailor Nathan Kam Moky. A Cabal of police freemasons and even a one Briet Point sir Arthur Conan Doyle who gave the world Sherlock Holmes spotting the Ripper is a game anyone can play among the players this Lime around is big Lime television determined to get its Cut of the Ripper Centenary Slakes. British thames television is planning a Lour part mini series which will attempt to identify Jack the Ripper. And lbs has agreed to buy it for $6 i million Only the second British drama series to be sold to a major . Network. The series is scheduled for showing in Britain and the United states next year to coincide with the 100lh anniversary of the murders television is nothing new to the Ripper in the 1970s, he was the subject of an investigative series a Sherlock Holmes to movie based on nothing Conan Doyle Ever whole. And a  made mystery that even had the Ripper popping up in. Of All places. Seattle Bui it is in print that Jack the Ripper has made his greatest and most lasting Impact with More than 200 books and map articles by writers who seem to spend As much time shool my Down each other s theories As they do trying to spot the killer the deluge is growing five More Ripper books Are due before the end of the year a Sim is m Ihn works and doubtless others will pour in As Ripper mania approaches its Peak next summer and All one of the now volumes Melvyn Harris Jack the Ripper the bloody truth has a new twist it sets up a Ripper Competition offering a weekend in pans As a prize for solving the meaning of the signature of one of the author s suspects. In the Ripper legacy. Martin Howells and Keith Skinner serve up poor Druitt. The tailed lawyer As the Ripper suspect of the month. That theory is debunked by Colin Wilson in his Jack the Ripper summing up and verdict partly on grounds that Druitt was a gentleman Cricket player and As such. Wilson claims could not possibly have done it and there is Martin fido s the crimes. Detection and death of Jack the Ripper which names tailor Kamsky As the culprit. Writer Terence Sharkey s unnamed contribution to this outpouring is dismissed by one reviewer As a Revo tingly lurid Elfort " in fact reviewer Christopher Hudson of the London evening Standard is fairly damning of All the current crop of Ripper ology authors they dip their pens into the blood of the Irve mutilated women As lovingly As the slaughtered s thin waded knife " such is the gruesome fascination after nearly 100 years of the Whitechapel murders As another Ripper expert London police officer and writer Donald Rumbelow put it. There is Only one tact of which we can be sure children chant it every Day in the skipping game of East London Jack the Ripper s dead. And lying on his bed he Cut his Throat with sunlight soap. Jack the Ripper s dead the stars and stripes Page 13