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The Pittenweem Ripper

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In October 1888, A Pittenweem boy aged 13 wrote menacing letters pretending to be Jack the Ripper (or his brother, “Rab the Beginner”) to local people saying they’d be murdered. Some took the threats seriously. The papers published the letters. He was fined £5.

I love the idea that Jack the Ripper was hiding out in Anstruther and knew that it was pronounced Anster.
  • The rough sketch of the pistol.
References

Fife News, 22nd December 1888, pg. 6.
Fife Herald, 19th December 1888, pg. 4.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 15th December 1888, pg. 3.