"Blind-Man's Buff"

Title: "Blind-Man's Buff"
Description: A political cartoon in the British satirical magazine "Punch" that depicts a blindfolded policeman cluelessly surrounded by criminals in London's East End. A caption reads "Blind Mans' Buff. (As played by the Police.) 'Turn round three times, and catch whom you may!'" The cartoon also includes a poem reading "Lurking crime
Haunts from of old these dens of darksome slime.
There, where well-armed authority fears to tread,
Murder and outrage rear audacious head,
Unscanned, untracked."
Creator: Sir John Tenniel
Date: 22 September 1888
Extent: 1 page
Format: Document
Is Part Of: September 22 1888 version of "Punch"
Language: English
Provenance: British Library, sourced from Punch Ltd
Publisher: British Library
Rights: Copyright of Punch Ltd
Rights Holder: Punch Ltd
Subject: An illustration and poem satirizing the Metropolitan Police's struggling investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders and other crime in Whitechapel
Temporal Coverage: 1888
Type: Periodical
Relation: "The Nemesis of Neglect"; "Whitechapel, 1888"; 'With the Vigilance Committee in the East-End'; "The London Murder Scare"

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