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Jack the Ripper Coursework Q4. Use sources F and G, and your own knowledge, to explain how the police tried to catch Jack the Ripper. Police methods in the 19th Century are very different to those used today. There were two separate police forces investigating the Ripper murders, the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police. These two forces didn't work together during the investigation. They didn't share evidence or disclose information to each other. They hindered rather than helped each other. The main way the police tried to catch criminals in the 19th Century was to get information from the public. Source F is a police notice published after the murders of Elizabeth Stride and Kate Eddowes. This shows that the police would hand out leaflets to the public appealing for information. "Should you know of any person to whom suspicion is attached, you are earnestly requested to communicate at once...

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