Casebook Blotter

Just a couple of quick site updates to mention.

First of all, Robert Clack was kind enough to send in his article “Murder, Death and the Lodging House: The Strange Case of Mary Ann Austin”  which was originally published in Ripper Notes, October 2005 edition.  Austin, aged 28, was murdered in Dorset Street in May 1901.  Several of the players involved in the Kelly murder of November 1888 appear again in this case, including John McCarty and Coroner Baxter, and several newspapers at the time wondered if this was a “new” Ripper murder.  Clack covers all this and more in his article, which can be reached here:

http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rn-mary-ann-austin.html 

We’ve also got a couple of new blogs set up in the past week, including one for Rob Clack and another for Chris Scott.  The six most recent entries from all Casebook blogs show up as links in the left-hand navigation area of every page, but some readers have been requesting a better method of accessing individual blogs and posts that may not be featured in this area.  Its a great idea and I’m working on a better method of handling this, which will eventually live at the main blog page at:

http://blog.casebook.org

That’ll come shortly… stay tuned!