The evil that was Jack the Ripper brought fresh terror to the streets of London with the murder of Annie Chapman, the brutality and savagery of her murder far exceeding that which had gone before. Her body was discovered by an elderly man, John Davis, shortly before 6 a.m. on the 8th of September in the backyard of number 29 Hanbury Street. Her dress had been pulled up over her knees, and her intestines were clearly visible, draped across her left shoulder. He summoned James Green and James Kent, two acquaintances from nearby, and sent them for the police.
The police surgeon, Dr. George Bagster Phillips, arrived at 6.30 a.m. and on inspection he found evidence of the most serious mutilations so far in the series of killings which were now beginning to appear as the work of one crazed indi
