Central News Agency, night 29/30 September 1888 Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

With new informations, Holmes will decide to sniff around at Tom Bullings work, the Central News Agency. Click on the new location (Map of London - Central News Agency, Fleet Street). When you will be there, go left and speak with a man standing near the window. You have to tell him to go, so Sherlock would be able to penetrate Bullings desk. Give him a story about prince Raskalnikov as an interesting history (activate the leaflet in your inventory). As a result of this conversation the man will leave the room and he will give you a note: "I Owe You". Detective will learn that Bulling desk is near the oven.

Go right to the end of the room and get close to the second desk from the left (where the lamp is on). This is the Bullings desk. Search the recycle bin and take the crumpled letter (Documents - Crumpled Letter).

Take a look at the desk (zoom). Take all coins lying on the right, rags and some Bulling's notes. Check if the oven is hot and open its door using rags. Holmes will automatically take a blutting piece of paper. Unfortunately, the note is a mirror reflection.

Now go to the boss desk (right of the door). Take a letter to Mr. Moore. With the mirror standing on a desk, look at a blutting piece of paper (Documents - Blutting Piece of Paper). You will read: The information about the murderer from Whitechapel, call WA ...

Go to the phone and call ... you don't now who. Another puzzle is the board with the list of phone numbers. One number is missing - that near the name WALESBY. Instead of the number there is a stamp made with a coin. You have 4 coins and on each of them you can see the year when it was made. The stamp was made with the first one. So you have to call number 1875 and then pull the handle.

Holmes will speak with Bullings informer. These two men are giving some informations to each other. If Sherlock wants to know something interesting then he should tell something that will interest his interlocutor.

This is another puzzle where you have to reply in a proper way.

1. Do the police have suspect for the bizarre theft of cigarettes and carrots that took place at the Commercial Street market?

Scotland Yard - is searching for a rabbit - that coughs.

2. With regards to the parliamentary scandal, what did the head of the Wing party respond to the Tories who are treating him as a "great incompetent"?

Vote on me, I - will surely be - your best representative.

3. According to a government social study, civil servants make the best husbands - why?

When he comes home from work - he is never tired and - has already read the newspaper.

As a result of this call, Sherlock will be told to search for some envelopes lying on a regale. These are information about the prostitutes killer. Click on these three envelopes, and you will receive: notes on spring heeled Jack, list in pencil and Abberline's telegram. You will see that Bulling is fascinated with a person of Jack the Ripper and that police is with the close cooperation with the agency. So now, go to the police station (use map).