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William Bury

Dundee

Was Dundee's last hanged man Jack the Ripper?

In 1889 William Bury walked into a Dundee police station and said his wife was dead. Her body was found in a trunk.

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When
24 April 1889
Where
56.4620, -2.9700
Group
Gibbets & executions

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