Sunday, 28 June 2026

William Henry Bury

 On 24 April 1889, William Henry Bury became the last person to be hanged in Dundee, Scotland. I thought you might be interested because Bury has been named as a Jack the Ripper suspect. He strangled his wife, then stabbed the body. It's known he lived in Bow, London, at the time of the Whitechapel murders. But Bury does not seem to be a strong suspect. He did not mutilate his wife's body. The murder seems to have been a 'domestic' murder, sadly, all too common but different from the sadistic murders of strangers. It seems to have been a coincidence that he was living in London in 1888.




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