
Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Case of Springhill Jack
No one but jane alsop knew that her attacker had identified himself as jack. A shoemaker named richardson, who had also been in bearbinder lane shortly before nine, said that he had met not only millbank and payne, but also two other possible suspects. The identity of the cloaked young man is one of the mysteries of the alsop case. At the end of the second day of hearings, mister hardwick, the chief magistrate, told milbank, the chief suspect, he now believed him innocent.
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In 19th century London, residents reported a ghostly figure in outrageous costumes would accost them, sometimes bellowing blue flame in their faces, and then vanish in the night. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was Spring-Heeled Jack and did he really exist.
