"Saucy Jacky" postcard

Title: "Saucy Jacky" postcard
Description: A postcard, sent to the Central News Agency on October 1, 1888 and signed "Jack the Ripper, which takes credit for the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes the previous night.
Contributor: Transcription by The National Archives (UK)
Creator: "Jack the Ripper"
Date: October 1, 1888
Extent: 2 pages
Format: Document
Language: English
Provenance: The National Archives (UK), sourced from the Central News Agency and the London Metropolitan Police
Publisher: The National Archives (UK)
Rights: Public Domain
Subject: The "double murder" of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes
Temporal Coverage: 1888
Type: Correspondence
Relation: "Bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes (Jack the Ripper victims) are discovered, Oct 1888"; "The East-End Murders"; 'Incidents Relating to the East End Murders'; "The Whitechapel mystery"; Death Certificate of Elizabeth Stride; Death Certificate of Catherine Eddowes; "Dear Boss" letter

Media: Saucy_Jack_front.jpg; Jack the Ripper Postcard.jpg; Transcription of the Saucy Jacky Postcard

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"Bodies of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes (Jack the Ripper victims) are discovered, Oct 1888"	Image
"Dear Boss" letter	Image
"Sir Charles Warren's Resignation"	Image
"The Whitechapel mystery"	Image
Death Certificate of Catherine Eddowes	Image
Death Certificate of Elizabeth Stride	Image

Ripper Records: An Archive of Jack the Ripper and the 1888 Whitechapel Murders