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Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Mystery!)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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Springhill Jack Scares in London

By now, all of london was thrillingly aware of the springhill jack scare. Several imitators made their appearance on either 20 eighth fbruary or one march. A blacksmith named jame priest was apprehended after assaulting several women and sentenced to three months hard labor. During march, two tall men in black cloaks with faces smeared with ochre, scared a boy in westmoreland mews. And a youth named daniel granville was caught in kentish town wearing a mask with blue glazed paper at the mouth to simulate jack's fiery breath. Finally, at the beginning of april, as the terror seems to have died down in london

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