Murder, Medicine, Money: A Met Police—Home Office Dispute, 1889-90

By Cassie Watson; posted 26 December 2025. In the wake of the Thames Torso Murders (1887–89), the Jack the Ripper killings of autumn 1888, and several subsequent unsolved murders that were thought possibly to be the work of the Ripper,[1] the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, James Monro, tried to convince the Home Office to pay more [ ]