... no modern ways of tracing the whereabouts. But on the other hand the newspaper is the East End Observer which would've had and better account because it was the local paper compared to other newspapers which would've been based in other regions so therefore did not have local knowledge. The two murders were linked by the newspaper because they did not have forensics to determine if the same killer committed both of the murders. The purpose of the newspaper is to inform the reader and to sell the newspaper. In the time of the murders there was no other form of telling the news except by newspapers and word-of-mouth, therefore the newspapers were considered reliable. Question 2: Source A is a newspaper extract from the East End Observer. The article links both of the murders, the murder of Marta Tabram and Polly Nicholls. This shows that the newspapers and the police were ill-informed. The ...

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