Trumans and Jack The Ripper
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Hanbury Street. E1
Jack the Ripper’s Second Victim
The north side of Hanbury Street is now covered by the sprawling mass of the buildings that were formerly the Truman, Hanbury & Buxton & Co. Ltd Brewery.
It was built on the site of number 29 Hanbury Street, in the back yard of which at around 6am on 8th September 1888, the body of Annie Chapman, Jack the Ripper’s second victim was discovered.
In the days of the brewery it was often noticed that a strange chill drifted through the boardroom at 6am on the anniversary of the murder and it was also reported that Annie Chapman’s ghost was sometimes seen standing by the wall of the storeroom that occupied the spot where she died.
One suspect, of many was Frederick Nicholas Charrington.