Albert

[Cap'n Jack]

I'm very interested in this bloke, Albert, who went back to a lodging house off Commercial Road with an 'unfortunate' and without any compunction whatsoever pulled a razor out of his pocket and slit her throat, then did it again.
His age grabs me.
Only 17 at the time of the Whitechapel Murders, but mature enough to try and kill an unfortunate 4 years later.
His relatively light sentence is a reflection of his 'respectability', in that Albert worked for the Queen's Printers.
I do wonder what volume he was working on in Whitechapel?
Long way from home.

'ALBERT EDWARD HAWTHORN, Breaking Peace > wounding, 12th December 1892.


Reference Number: t18921212-124
Offence: Breaking Peace > wounding
Verdict: Guilty > lesser offence
Punishment: Imprisonment > hard labour
See original
124. ALBERT EDWARD HAWTHORN (21) , Feloniously wounding Mary Ann Johnson, with intent to murder; Second Count, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. '

[joelhall]

hardly a 'mature' act but its not surprising.

plenty of teenagers stabbing and shooting even now.

even bulgers killers were only primary school age.

joel

[Cap'n Jack]

Ah, Joel, you talk with the full authority and majesty of a person who has lived outside of the Late Victorian Period.
And that is your fatal flaw in flow.
You must learn to admit that when Queen Victoria died in 1901 the Late Victorian Period died with her, and there is no going back or forward.
That is it.