The Murder Of Augusta Dawes - Had Jack The Ripper Returned?

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
  • On Sunday the 25th of November, 1894, 28 year old Augusta Dawes was murdered in a Kensington back street, in a manner that was reminiscent of the Whitechapel atrocities of six years previous.
    When, 3 days later, the police received a letter from Jack the Ripper, people began to fear that maybe the perpetrator of the heinous crimes had returned.

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  • @Eric-the-Bold
    @Eric-the-Bold 4 месяца назад +32

    Well researched, first rate presentation.

  • @MrJsv650
    @MrJsv650 4 месяца назад +38

    Best Ripper channel hands down

  • @chrischibnall593
    @chrischibnall593 4 месяца назад +60

    Fun fact: John Langdon Down was the doctor after whom Down's Syndrome was named.

  • @LucasLucas-ne4xs
    @LucasLucas-ne4xs 4 месяца назад +26

    Don't you just love it when Mr. Richard Jones drops a little gem from old times gone by on you on a casual summer Sunday evening ?
    My only critique (as always) would be that it is too short.

  • @BenLujan-r5q
    @BenLujan-r5q 4 месяца назад +10

    Thanks for the post, Mr. Jones!

  • @powdermik
    @powdermik 4 месяца назад +28

    Thank you for continuing to produce these videos. I watched them all and can’t wait to come over to England to see the sites in person.

  • @anthonysheppard9247
    @anthonysheppard9247 4 месяца назад +9

    Interesting story,beautifully told ❤

  • @korbendallas71
    @korbendallas71 4 месяца назад +2

    Thank you. Great video, research and narration. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • @Legionmint7091
    @Legionmint7091 4 месяца назад +5

    Thank you Mr. Jones for yet another piece of interesting history that I didn’t know of before. One can only wonder how much his social status played a roll in the comparatively lenient conviction.

  • @maryknight4823
    @maryknight4823 3 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Mr Jones, been a fan of yours for some years now having read your books. This is a wonderful channel, and you narrate so well. Uk fan👏.........

  • @filmbuff2777
    @filmbuff2777 4 месяца назад +3

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @carminia824
    @carminia824 4 месяца назад +11

    The drawings are lovely.
    Are they from 1890s magazines/newspapers? Who were the artists/illustrators?
    (There is a source given at the end of the video; I cannot read it though - it is behind the suggestion for another video.)

    • @JackTheRipperTours
      @JackTheRipperTours  4 месяца назад +11

      Hi. Yes, they are from the 1890s. The sources are newspapers such as The Illustrated Police News and The Penny Illustrated Paper.

    • @carminia824
      @carminia824 4 месяца назад +3

      @@JackTheRipperTours , thank you.
      So great that you used them, they make this case so much more alive, 120 years later.
      I think that drawings often convey more than photographs. If they are well-made, they are more precise, more concentrated on what is important.
      Esp.the portraits of Saunderson. They were made with great craftmanship and sensitivity.
      Together with your text, they gave me a very good impression of him.

  • @addie_is_me
    @addie_is_me 4 месяца назад +15

    How could he not go back and check if the woman was okay or not and also make no report? There are things that are strange to us because Victorians could be so different from us, or we in America anyway, but gee whiz. Fascinating case, nice research. Thank you.

    • @johnkorol6462
      @johnkorol6462 3 месяца назад +6

      Kitty genovese NYC??

    • @addie_is_me
      @addie_is_me 13 дней назад

      @@johnkorol6462 Good point. Maybe we are not so different.

  • @drbigmdftnu
    @drbigmdftnu 4 месяца назад +2

    Well done as always

  • @ruiseartalcorn
    @ruiseartalcorn 4 месяца назад +2

    Fascinating stuff! Many thanks :)

  • @jacquelinemitchell7148
    @jacquelinemitchell7148 4 месяца назад +2

    Brilliant video 📸

  • @jamiestacey7862
    @jamiestacey7862 4 месяца назад +4

    Thanks Rich 👍

  • @alice_evermore
    @alice_evermore 4 месяца назад +2

    Great video!

  • @catherineturley
    @catherineturley 2 месяца назад +1

    The last person to see her alive also gave a highly detailed description. That's usually suspicious. But because he's an artist, it's possible that he's more observant than the average person.

  • @barryballinger5912
    @barryballinger5912 3 месяца назад +1

    Brilliant again richard x

  • @dermotkelly6946
    @dermotkelly6946 4 месяца назад

    Superb Richard , will watch tonight 👍

  • @olimpzeus4115
    @olimpzeus4115 4 месяца назад +7

    It didn't take much to convict someone of murder back in those days.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад

      Agreed, policing wasn't fantastic then but the handwriting !?

    • @homo.incurvatus
      @homo.incurvatus 8 дней назад

      ​@@paulohagan3309I know right?

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan 4 месяца назад +5

    Reginald would have been 15 years old at the time of the Jack the Ripper killings.

  • @KellyfromMemphisDD214
    @KellyfromMemphisDD214 4 месяца назад +2

    It pleases me that Augusta received justice…RIP young lady, sorry about your lot in life! 😢

  • @martinwatson9615
    @martinwatson9615 4 месяца назад +2

    Is Herbert Schmalz style of art where we get ‘schmaltzy’ from?

    • @lynnadams9876
      @lynnadams9876 3 месяца назад +1

      Great question. I randomly happen to know the origin of the word “schmaltz”, and the answer is-kinda, but it doesn’t have any association with Herbert Schmalz specifically. It is actually the Yiddish (Jewish) word for rendered chicken fat. But it IS derived from the German word “schmalz” which refers to all meat drippings/fat/lard. But then it eventually became a slang word for something that is overly sentimental or “dripping” with sentiment.

  • @paulohagan3309
    @paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад +2

    '... the child was adopted ...' I'm genuinely happy that the little girl was as well looked after as could be in the [awful] circumstances. But what about the little boy, six years old in the workhouse? Was he just left there?

  • @trollonthebrain1455
    @trollonthebrain1455 4 месяца назад +3

    I always believed jack the ripper just changed location with the same MO when it got hot.

    • @GilbertSyndrome
      @GilbertSyndrome 4 месяца назад +2

      It's an interesting idea, but there's not really many similar killings that we could say with confidence were likely to have been committed by the same person.

  • @LindaBoyd-pm6do
    @LindaBoyd-pm6do 3 месяца назад +1

    Thats so sad. A young man and womans lives both destroyed. A small child motherless. Hard times in victorian england

  • @sirlancealittles
    @sirlancealittles 4 месяца назад +3

    This doesn't sound like Jack the Ripper

  • @WadeRaney-vv5oi
    @WadeRaney-vv5oi 3 месяца назад

    Another 👍 ☝ Mr Jones👋

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 3 месяца назад +2

    Running in hard sole shoes were a not a easy feat in it's self no pun intended however after jolly Jack some rubber soles were invented like Reebok in 1895, and has been my favorite shoes because just before my mom died she got me a pair and they lasted for 10 years after that I can't just go to another I've had others but it's not the same 😢, here is another fact I have seen photos of constables wearing shoes with natural rubber on the bottom of the sole b/w ones.

  • @64HomeMade
    @64HomeMade 29 дней назад +1

    I love to know what happened to her son in the workhouse.

  • @louisemerriman1079
    @louisemerriman1079 4 месяца назад +1

    Who do you think JTR was in your expert opinion Richard ?

  • @ianpeddle6818
    @ianpeddle6818 4 месяца назад +1

    Was Mr Schmaltz the man who “schmaltz” was named after?? 😂

  • @christophermcguire27
    @christophermcguire27 3 месяца назад

    Honest to festering, Gordon Bennett

  • @laurachapple6795
    @laurachapple6795 2 месяца назад

    I hope Schmaltz never slept a peaceful night again in his life. I hope he was forever haunted by the idea that if he'd gone back he could have saved her.

  • @garyblack6839
    @garyblack6839 3 месяца назад +1

    🙏🙏

  • @jorahtheexplorer3262
    @jorahtheexplorer3262 4 месяца назад +1

    Not Detectives Thompson and Thomson? Shame.

  • @scallopohare9431
    @scallopohare9431 29 дней назад

    Mr. schmalz was very brave, and did/does not deserve demeaning comments. The poor woman had partly risen, and spoke a few words. He would not have been expecting a murder. Interesting that this took place in a more refined neighborhood than the canonical five.

  • @WallaceFamilyVideos-xi5tn
    @WallaceFamilyVideos-xi5tn 4 месяца назад +1

    history keeps repeating

  • @mariefricchione437
    @mariefricchione437 4 месяца назад +1

    Looks to me like Jacks work!

  • @awotnot
    @awotnot 4 месяца назад +3

    It makes me chuckle that on the one hand we have a despicable era in human history that speaks of "unfortunate" women - and yet on the other hand we sit here watching in 2024 in a post Thatcher "return to Victorian values" era whereby the narrator casually describes Dawes as having experienced a "downward spiral" in a sneering voice indicative of 1894.

  • @kragary
    @kragary 5 дней назад

    Wait, what about the letter? Was it explained who wrote and sent it? If Reginald was as disabled as he's described during court proceedings then it couldn't have been him, right? But it was said the letter also helped in solving the murder.

  • @MsSmudge14
    @MsSmudge14 4 дня назад

    I wonder if he anything to do with the 'Ripper Murders'?

  • @redtobertshateshandles
    @redtobertshateshandles 4 месяца назад +1

    I wonder what a profiler would say about all this knife crime, and throat cutting in particular ??
    You imagine life was safe and peaceful back then.
    Maybe not.

    • @paulohagan3309
      @paulohagan3309 3 месяца назад +1

      Life was damned difficult then and often very short. Queen Victoria no less had one child die from leukemia. I wouldn't wish it upon her but the very Empress herself of the biggest Empire that ever existed could only watch while her child died of a disease that nowadays in 95% of cases is manageable if not a bed of roses. If you read the books about the life and times of the Ripper, life was very hard for a large proportion of the population and not that fantastic for even the very rich.

  • @matthewjames206
    @matthewjames206 4 месяца назад +1

    👍👍

  • @hattyburrow716
    @hattyburrow716 4 месяца назад +2

    I like them too

  • @RosalbaCalderon-bv8me
    @RosalbaCalderon-bv8me 3 месяца назад

    How do they know it wasn't Jack the Ripper iff the man that came upon them interrupted them he mate not had time to dismember the body cause off the interuption.

  • @Mrrobackenson1
    @Mrrobackenson1 3 месяца назад

    Herbert was the murderer.