Look how close my artist's drawings are to one of the Ripper's
victims!
Annie Millwood
-cause of admission simply as 'stabs'
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Annie Millwood
Possible victim mentioned in Sugden's The Complete Jack the Ripper and
Hinton's From Hell. The widow of a soldier named Richard Millwood,
Annie was thirty-eight years of age in the winter of 1888. She lived
in Spitalfields Chambers, 8 White's Row, Spitalfields, and may have
been supporting herself through prostitution, though that is pure
speculation.
Annie was admitted into the Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary on
Saturday, February 25, 1888 from 8 White's Row, Spitalfields. Records
report the cause of admission simply as 'stabs' to the legs and lower
torso with a knife. An article in the Eastern Post sheds a bit more
light on the subject:
"It appears the deceased was admitted to the Whitechapel Infirmary
suffering from numerous stabs in the legs and lower part of the body.
She stated that she had been attacked by a man who she did not know,
and who stabbed her with a clasp knife which he took from his pocket.
No one appears to have seen the attack, and as far as at present
ascertained there is only the woman's statement to bear out the
allegations of an attack, though that she had been stabbed cannot be
denied."
In her own words, the man was a stranger. The exact number of wounds
is unknown.
Regardless, Annie made a complete recovery and was released a little
less than a month later, on March 21, being sent to the South Grove
Workhouse, Mile End Road. Strangely, ten days later on the 31st of
March, she collapsed and passed away in the back yard of the building
while 'engaged in some occupation.' Coroner Baxter headed the inquest
on April 5th, and her death was attributed to 'sudden effusion into
the pericardium from the rupture of the left pulmonary artery through
ulceration.' The death was from natural causes, unrelated to her
vicious attack over a month before.