On 18 Feb 2008 13:38:02 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>Well, I don't know how long it took for the stories about Jack the Ripper 
>to spread - do you?

Fast in London, I believe

>Keep also in mind that JtR's targets were in a large city - more rural 
>areas would have had much less coverage.  If Laura Ingals Wilder had shot 
>up her schoolyard, we might well not have heard of it, partly because it 
>was a rural area, and partly because small towns tended to not talk about 
>serious things like this happening with outsiders.



Regards
	Stephen

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