1889 gehängt wegen mordes an seiner frau ellen bury. welche übrigends auch eine zeitlang als prostituierte in london tätig war.
zur zeit der rippermorde hatte william bury unter dem namen "john henry burey" einen "cat's meat shop" im east end.
die verletzungen von ellen bury waren denen von polly nichols und martha tabram angeblich erstaunlich ähnlich (durchtrennte kehle und verstümmelter unterleib).
die einzigen informationen, die ich sonst noch anbieten kann, sind folgende zeitungsartikel: (wobei ich den letzten besonders interessant finde, bzw. das was bury kurz vor seiner hinrichtung angeblich gesagt haben soll.)
The Standard (Albert Lea, Minn)
13 February 1889
IS IT "JACK THE RIPPER"?
The husband and murderer of another victim confesses his crime
London, Feb.12.
It looks now as if the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders had been caught. The mutilated body of a woman was found concealed in a wooden chest by the police at Dundee Monday. A post-mortem examination showed that the woman had first been strangled and that her body had then been mutilated, the abdomen being ripped open and the legs and arms twisted and broken. The victim's husband, W.H.Bury, a resident of Whitechapel, London, was arrested on suspicion and confessed the crime. Bury says that he left Whitechapel three weeks ago. He refuses to say why he left there, and acknowledges that he had no business requiring his attention in Dundee. He says that he and his wife drank heavily last Sunday night before retiring and that he does not know how he got to bed. Upon awakening, he says, he found his wife lying upon the floor with a rope around her neck. Actuated by a sudden mad impulse, for which he can not account, he seized a knife and slashed the body. Upon reason returning he became alarmed and hastily crushed the body into the chest in which it was found, thinking to flee and make his escape. He found, however, that he could not leave his wife's remains and he finally resolved to inform the police. The theory of the police officials is that Bury's wife knew of facts connecting him with the East End atrocities, and that she took him to Dundee in the hope of preventing a recurrence of the crimes.
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Frederick News
Maryland, U.S.A.
11 February 1889
JACK THE RIPPER
Has He Been Caught At Last?
Special to THE NEWS
London, February 11, 1889
2 o'clock P.M.
A dispatch from Dundee, Scotland, states that a murder similar to the Whitechapel outrages has just been committed, and the culprit arrested. The police authorities say that the man is undoubtedly the famous Jack the Ripper, but refuse to give any particulars. Great excitement prevails in this city.
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Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
17 November 1907
From an article entitled: "After Executing 197 criminals Berry Opposes Death Penalty"
London, Nov. 7.
One of the most notorious criminals of modern times, a man who has given his name to an odious kind of murder, Jack the Ripper, Berry declares he hanged, and at the moment he was talking he was wearing the cuff links that he took from the man's cuffs when he pinioned his hands. According to Berry, this man, of whose identity there have been so many stories, was John Henry Burey, keeper of a cat's meat shop in the East End of London.
Jack the Ripper's Crimes
"Behind this shop," said Berry, "were rooms which he used to let to women of the streets. During his absence some one - one of these degraded women, he fully believed - broke into his room and stole some of his savings. "This made the man so mad that he swore an oath that if he could not find out who it was he would murder every woman who had used his house. This threat he proceeded to carry out.
"Eventually his wife threatened, during a quarrel, to inform the authorities, whereupon he killed her and tried to dispose of the body, which he cut up. For this he was condemned.
"When in the cell and about to pinion him, I said:
"'Well, Jack the Ripper, have you anything to say? If so, say it now, as you will have no chance later.'
"'No,' was the reply. 'If any one stole anything from me I'd kill the lot to find the right one. I'm not going to give you any big lines, go on with your work, Berry, I'll not say anything.'
"Nor did he."
Berry is to depart shortly to the United States, where he is booked for an evangelical lecturing tour.
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