Jack the Ripper Victims – Emma Smith

Emma Elizabeth Smith Emma Smith was a local prostitute who lived at 18 George Street, Spitalfields. On Easter Monday, April 3, 1888 she was attacked by a gang of youths at the junction of Osborn Street, (or Wentworth Street) and Brick Lane. Although she almost certainly was not a victim of Jack the Ripper, it was with her death that the police opened the file on the Whitechapel Murders, a file that included the murders by Jack the Ripper. Emma Smith died on April 5, 1888, in the London Hospital as a result of her injuries.