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Re: Jack The Ripper
Posted By: King In Response To: Re: Jack The Ripper (jlmann)
Date: Tuesday, 7-26-11, at 6:54 p.m.
Everybody at the time is gone now. My great grandmother died in July 1971 and had just turned 80 years old. I also want to say this didn't happen at the beach, she was staying with her aunt and uncle in Philadelphia.
And she was not a prostitute. At that time there was something popular called sweet buns which was a big honey bun with icing. They used to eat those for breakfast and she was coming back from the bakery with them when this happend. The guy followed her off a trolley bus. This is what the guy would do and he also liked to cut the women's hair. She had seen him before on it and thought something wasn't right about him. Jack The Ripper as he was called then was a big deal in Philadelphia at the time and they knew about him but just didn't think about that happening.
He grabbed her foot when she was getting away, cut her deep across the leg above her ankle which cut the ligaments. It never healed good and she had trouble walking from it the rest of her life. She was screaming and that might have been what chased him off.
Later on in life she went back for her uncle's funeral with my great grandfather and almost died again. They had bad snow storms with drifts and got caught in one on the road. There was a gas station that was built around a real crashed plane with its tail up in the air. It was full of truck drivers and they wouldn't let them inside. My great grandfather asked the truck drivers if one of them would step outside with him and let his wife inside and nobody would do it. She had a long dress on, that's what women wore back then and the snow was packing on her under it. They walked through the snow storm with my great grandfather dragging her along behind him until they got to a farm house. The people at the farm house took them in for 3 days.
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