Twenty-Two – Mile End VigilanceThe morning of 11 September Mrs Griggs was at her papers again carrying on about the press, and most particularly the radical press, illegitimately accelerating their written attacks on police and Home Office in regards to the recent murders. Certainly they (the crimes) were awful, she conceded, but as certainly the Metropolitan Police were doing everything in their power to track down the miscreant!
It will come as no surprise I agreed with the good lady.
No sooner was that issue resolved, then Mrs Griggs turned to another, resurrected in new articles over the last two days. In those, for want of something horrible to print – to keep the paying public agitated – the publishers had revisited ancient history; the ghost of an earlier murder, of an unknown wom
