Weapons used on Mary?

[Henry Flower]

I'm always visually confused by this, Kelly's left calf in MJK2, and I wonder if anyone has an opinion:



Bond tells us:

The left calf showed a long gash through skin & tissues to the deep muscles & reaching from the knee to 5 ins above the ankle.

So is that what we're seeing in the photo? I used to think that part of the bedsheet had been pulled over her calf, because in terms of tone and texture the area above the jagged edge of skin looks contiguous with the bedsheet.

Am I right in assuming that real situation is as depicted below? And that the area coloured green represents exposed tissue? If so, why is it not darker? The exposed tissue everywhere else on the photo is considerably darker. Can anyone help explain what we're seeing?

[Sam Flynn]

Incidentally, Nick Warren, editor of Ripperana magazine and a surgeon, detected the use of a hatchet to split MJK's left thighbone.

Except MJK's left thighbone wasn't split, nor was the other one for that matter. It's a modern myth based on a misinterpretation of the MJK3 photograph.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Incidentally, Nick Warren, editor of Ripperana magazine and a surgeon, detected the use of a hatchet to split MJK's left thighbone.

Wouldn't most working class homes have a small axe in the house to chop firewood for the fire?

In the Glasgow tenement where I grew up, we certainly had a small axe which was used to chop those larger pieces of firewood into smaller pieces.

Does anyone know whether in fact this would be the case in whitechapel of the 1880's?

[Harry D]

A press report from 1891 said that the axe on display at the Black Museum belonged to MJK's killer, but it was actually used by Henry Wainwright to murder his mistress in 1874. I believe that's what you're referring to.

Incidentally, Nick Warren, editor of Ripperana magazine and a surgeon, detected the use of a hatchet to split MJK's left thighbone.

[DarkPassenger]

I was told recently that a meat clever was found at the scene of Mary's murder, and was much later confirmed to have been used on her. Struggling to find any confirmation of this. Can anyone confirm or refute this please?