Photographs?

[Harry D]

How come that unlike the majority of Whitechapel victims, there is no post-mortem photo of Rose Mylett?

[GUT]

How come that unlike the majority of Whitechapel victims, there is no post-mortem photo of Rose Mylett?

Either they didn't take one [which I doubt] or it was taken and has been lost, like so much else.

Though it may simply have been that the photographer wasn't available.

[Harry D]

Either they didn't take one [which I doubt] or it was taken and has been lost, like so much else.

Though it may simply have been that the photographer wasn't available.

Hello, GUT. Thanks.

Yeah, I thought as much. That would mean Mylett was the only victim in the series who wasn't photographed without mitigating circumstances, i.e. Elizabeth Smith died in hospital and the Pinchin St. Torso.

[GUT]

Hello, GUT. Thanks.

Yeah, I thought as much. That would mean Mylett was the only victim in the series who wasn't photographed without mitigating circumstances, i.e. Elizabeth Smith died in hospital and the Pinchin St. Torso.

G'Day Harry

I lean towards it being the photographer not available as t was, even in '88 still a pretty specialised art.

Though given how much other material is missing, that is always a possibility.

[Monty]

There would have been a photograph, it was part of procedure.

Monty

[GUT]

There would have been a photograph, it was part of procedure.

Monty

G'day Monty

But given that they had limited photographers available to them, what would they do if they couldn't get one?

[GUT]

And actually looking at the victims page here on casebook, that looks suspiciously like a post-mortem photo.

[Harry D]

And actually looking at the victims page here on casebook, that looks suspiciously like a post-mortem photo.

I believe those are stock images in the event there's no photo or illustration on file of the victim.

[Batman]

Its not until recently that many of these photographs even came to light. I believe Rumbelow recovered them from storage of an older museum collection or something.

[Mayerling]

Its not until recently that many of these photographs even came to light. I believe Rumbelow recovered them from storage of an older museum collection or something.

Somewhere, I think in the first edition of his "The Compleat Jack the Ripper", Rumbelow mentioned that when he found one of the maps it looked like it was baked. It is just possible that many of the photos were lost because they were poorly stored and fell apart.

I still have a major problem with Montague Druitt's death. In a book about Scotland Yard by George Dilnot he had a chapter about the "Thames Police" and how they photographed the corpses of those whose bodies they found - for identification purposes. They were doing this before 1888. No picture of the dead Monty has ever appeared.

Jeff

[Rob Clack]

I still have a major problem with Montague Druitt's death. In a book about Scotland Yard by George Dilnot he had a chapter about the "Thames Police" and how they photographed the corpses of those whose bodies they found - for identification purposes. They were doing this before 1888. No picture of the dead Monty has ever appeared.

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

The Thames Police only had jurisdiction between Battersea Bridge and Barking Creek. Chiswick was about 5 miles away. The only reason the Thames Police would go that far would be for Special Occasions like the boat race.

Rob

P.S. there would have been a photograph taken of Catherine Mylett and the Pinchin Street Torso.

[Monty]

G'day Monty

But given that they had limited photographers available to them, what would they do if they couldn't get one?

They would have gotten one Gut, and rapidly.

Monty

[Robert]

Wasn't there a police photographer living within a few hundred yards of the Mylett murder scene?

[Rob Clack]

I am not sure if K Division had a regular photographer at the time Robert. They may have used Joseph Martin who was at Cannon Street Road at the time.

Rob

[Robert]

Yes Rob, I thought it was something to do with "Martin."