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• "From Hell" letter
  A letter sent to George Lusk, the head of Whitechapel's Mile End Vigilance Committee, on October 16, 1888. The message was supposedly accompanied by half of a kidney (purportedly from Catherine Eddowes), which was later thought to be a prank.
• 'With the Vigilance Committee in the East-End'
  An illustration from 'The Illustrated Police News' that satirizes the investigation efforts of the police (harassing the homeless in the East End of London) with the investigations of an East End militia, the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee (trailing a suspect assumed to be Jack the Ripper).