The London Monster Jay Bondeson Now at Amazon. Annie Millwood Possible victim mentioned in Sugden's The Complete Jack the Ripper and Hinton's From Hell . The widow of a soldier named Richard Millwood, Annie was thirty-eight years of age in the winter of 1888. She lived in 8 White's Row, Spitalfields, and may have been supporting herself through prostitution, though that is pure speculation.
Records report the cause of admission simply as 'stabs' to the legs and lower torso with a knife.
She stated that she had been attacked by a man who she did not know, and who stabbed her with a clasp knife which he took from his pocket. No one appears to have seen the attack, and as far as at present ascertained there is only the woman's statement to bear out the allegations of an attack, though that she had been stabbed cannot be denied. In her own words, the man was a stranger. The exact number of wounds is unknown. Regardless, Annie made a complete recovery and was released a little less than a month later, on March 21, being sent to the South Grove Workhouse, Mile End Road.