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8 & 9 May 2019

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Lot

№ 1125 x

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9 May 2019

Hammer Price:
£280

Jubilee 1887, City of London Police (PS, 66. G. Jones.) with top bronze riband bar, about extremely fine £100-£140

George Jones, a native of Shoeburyness, Essex, was born in 1855, and joined the City of London Police on 11 November 1876. He was posted to No. 1 Division (Cripplegate, Moor Lane), and was serving with them as a Sergeant at the time of the investigation into the murder of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth of the five victims of ‘Jack the Ripper’, whose mutilated body was found in Mitre Square, just within the bounds of the City of London (and was thus the responsibility of the City of London Police, rather than the Metropolitan Police) in the early hours of 30 September 1888. Jones died a year later on 7 December 1889.

Sold with copied research, including a group photograph of the Snow Hill police officers wearing their Jubilee Medals.