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Jack the Ripper coursework 1. The first thing that we learn from source A about the murder of Polly Nicholls is that , at the time, some people believed that the murder was also connected to the murder of another woman, Martha Tabram. The writer of the newspaper article believes that both crimes were "the work of a demented being" as "extraordinary violence" was used, therefore suggesting that he believed that the crimes were connected. From the source we learn that 'extraordinary violence" was used in both although the newspaper may be exaggerating this fact, as it is a local newspaper. We can assume that murders similar to this in the East End of London were unusual at the time as the newspaper describes them as "singular". We are also told by the Newspaper that "excess of effort" was used in both Polly Nichols case and Martha Tabram's, suggesting that both...

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