Narrator: Eileen Mills

When fiery Bridget Cummings advertised for a lodger, she did not expect
a policeman to apply for the room. She wasn't fond of the coppers,
believing them to be traitors to the poor of Whitechapel, but her younger
brother and sister moved PC Fred Billings in the moment Bridget's back was
turned, and she seemed to have little say in the matter. Still, she had to
admit that she was glad of Fred's company in the walk back from her late-
night washing-up job, particularly when a young girl was found in a nearby
street with her throat cut.

The discovery of the body of Maureen Flanagan who was, the neighbours
believed, a respectable woman, naturally stirred memories of Jack the
Ripper. His horrific crimes had shocked the neighbourhood only twelve years
before, but Chief Inspector Dobbs of the City of London Police was convinced,
like most other police officers, that the Ripper was dead. But when a second
body was discovered, and Bridget noticed a strange man following her, the
neighbourhood was alert to the possibility that the terror had returned.

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