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"The Nemesis of Neglect"
An illustration from the satirical magazine "Punch" that connects the crime of London's slums to neglect and makes vague references to the Jack the Ripper murders in the East End's Whitechapel district. It also has a caption reading, "There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing, Into the spectre of that loathly lair. Face it – for vain is fleeing. Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, un-erect, 'Tis murderous crime, the nemesis of neglect."
'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).
"Jack the Ripper. Who is he? What is he? Where is he?"
The front page of a weekly London magazine, "Puck", showcasing a cartoon of a man struggling to identify the culprit of the 1888 Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper.
"Blind-Man's Buff"
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."
"Whitechapel, 1888"
A political cartoon from the satirical magazine "Punch", criticizing the lack of police presence in the Whitechapel district.