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Spitalfields Market, London, in the early 1890s In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Related song: Wrecking Ball On Tuesday morning, Mr. Batchelor and Mr. Grand arrived at 44 BernerContinue readingSeven Stars: The Fruitier and His Grapes

The Leman Street Police Station in the late 1800s In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Related song: Wrecking Ball A shabbily dressed man paced the lobby of the LemanContinue readingSeven Stars: Kidney Won’t Spill the Beans

George Chapman (a.k.a., Seweryn Klosowski), Jack the Ripper suspect and convicted Borough Poisoner In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper From the Broadford Courier and Reedy CreekContinue readingGeorge Chapman’s imaginary childhood in America

Illustration of Frederick Abberline, Chief Detective Inspector of Scotland Yard In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper The Chief Detective Inspector’s Case The following Pall Mall GazetteContinue readingChief Inspector Abberline Implicates Klosowski

Newspaper article from 1889 that introduces the Russian doctor theory In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8492, 7 June 1889 ANOTHERContinue readingThe Russian Doctor Theory

George Hutchinson's November 12, 1888 statement to the Metropolitan Police In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper An Eyewitness Account Goes Viral The description of Jack theContinue readingRipper-mania Grips London

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Jack the Ripper suspect Seweryn (a.k.a., Severin, Severyn, Severino) Antoniovich Klosowski (a.k.a. George Chapman) was born in the Polish villageContinue readingSeweryn Klosowski – Origins of a Killer

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Gravediggers E.C. Postmark from the October 29, “Jack” letter to Dr. Openshaw at the London Hospital A LetterContinue readingThe Colorado Connection

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Wrecking Ball Map showing the Whitechapel murder locations between 1888 and 1891 and the apartment where serial murdererContinue readingTewkesbury Buildings – Whitechapel High Street

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Pacific Street on San Francisco’s Barbary Coast circa 1900 Related song: Round About Me During the last half of theContinue readingSan Francisco’s Barbary Coast

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Portrait of Carrie Brown Related songs: Grace One of the few alleged Ripper victims actually to have been killed outsideContinue readingThe Murder of Carrie Brown

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Frances Coles body is discovered in Swallow Gardens Related songs: The Boneyard and Dead and Gone Swallow Gardens was aContinue readingSwallow Gardens

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related songs: In the Shadow of the Seven Stars and Dead and Gone Illustrated Police News depiction of the eventsContinue readingFrances Coles’ Tragic Last Days

1880s Publicity photo of Actor Richard Mansfield as Dr Jekyll In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related songs: Watertight and Grace The Strange Case of DrContinue readingThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Watertight Aboard the SS Westernland The Red Star Line’s SS Westernland The steam ship Westernland was built forContinue readingAboard the SS Westernland

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Smoke of Sage Wiwanke Wachipi – The Sun Dance Reprinted from the Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural CenterContinue readingThe Sun Dance Ceremony

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Smoke of Sage The Ghost Dance Adapted from Folklife Today article by Stephanie Hall The Ghost Dance wasContinue readingThe Ghost Dance Ceremony

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Related song: Ten Miles Down The Buffalo Gap Massacre December 10, 1890 Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, circa 1900 A fewContinue readingThe Buffalo Gap Massacre

In the Shadow of the Seven Stars Hunting the Ripper Album Background ResearchRelated song: Gravediggers London Necropolis Railway: The Train For The Dead by Kaushik Patowary Amusing Planet It wasContinue readingThe London Necropolis Railway