There are five caches numbered in chronological order of the murders with a possible sixth victim being cache number 6. You can find the caches in sequence but to avoid wear and tear on your feet, I suggest doing the caches in the order of: 1, 3, 6, 4, 5, 2 and 7.
To get to Jack’s hideaway at Cache No 7 you have to visit each of the six caches to find the clues to the final co-ordinates.
The caches are designed to be done independently but could be finished in a single visit. On Sundays the area is especially lively with popular markets at Columbia Road, Brick Lane, Petticoat Lane and Spitalfields. Whitechapel and Spitalfields are safe to visit during the day, but those of a nervous or crime cautious disposition should give the hunt a miss after dark. There is no doubt, however, that a hunt for Jack the Ripper is more creepy and atmospheric after the sun has gone down... Prosperity may be changing the character of the East End yet the melancholy air left by years of crime and poverty remains as you wander its streets.
Victim 4: Catherine Eddowes
Catherine Eddowes is generally believed to be the fourth of Jack the Ripper’s victims and was the second woman to be murdered on the night of 30 September 1888. It is thought the Ripper killed her in a fury following his failure to mutilate the body of victim no 3, Elizabeth Stride, less than an hour before.
Like all his victims, Catherine was a prostitute and in constant need of cash. During the early evening of 29 September, she had been in a drunken state doing fire engine imitations in Aldgate High Street. Catherine was arrested for disorderly behaviour but was released from Bishopsgate police station around midnight on 30 September. She was last seen close to the cache site talking to a man in a not unfriendly way having probably meandered down Houndsditch… Catherine’s mutilated body was discovered shortly thereafter by a policeman in the southwest corner of a nearby square, the site of cache No 4. The inquest report spelled out the horror of her demise:-
"The body was on its back, the head turned to left shoulder… The abdomen was exposed. Right leg bent. The throat cut across. The intestines were drawn out to a large extent and placed over the right shoulder. A piece of about two feet was quite detached from the body and placed between the body and the left arm, apparently by design…. Body was quite warm. No death stiffening had taken place. She must have been dead most likely within the half hour…. The face was very much mutilated."
That two such dreadful murders took place on the same night within a small area sent shudders of fear through the frightened community and the press into a frenzy. The grisly yet precise manner of Annie Chapman’s and Catherine Eddowes’s deaths implied that the killer had medical knowledge. The police seemed helpless to act. "The most agonizing of the East-end mysteries is the mystery of the utter paralysis of energy and intelligence on the part of the Police," opined The Daily News in its coverage the next day.
Today the cache site bears little resemblance to its Victorian origins apart from the cobbled stones. At the time of Catherine’s murder, the square was bordered by warehouses, terraced houses and a synagogue. Catherine’s body was discovered in front of three small cottages whose frontages faced on to the street bearing the same name as the square. Access to the square was through a series of small lanes and covered passages. Catherine’s body was discovered just beyond the wall next to the flower beds and benches… it still known to this day as "Ripper’s Corner".
QUESTION: Find the square Thames Water metal cover in the road outside 27 31 Mitre Street. The last word on it begins with a D. How many letters? Gives you J