Sheffield was arrested the day before, charged with stealing meat from the smoke-house of Elder A. B. Herring and put in jail to await trial. (16 April 1915)
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Wednesday 27th of August 1975 (x) — Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper Tracy Browne is attacked with a hammer by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper. Sutcliffe ran off when he saw the lights of a passing car, leaving Browne requiring brain surgery. Sutcliffe was not convicted of the attack but confessed in 1992. Browne later said that she had been charmed by Sutcliffe at first: "We had walked together for almost a mile – for about 30 minutes and I never once felt intimidated or in danger."