A century before Jack the Ripper came on the scene, a mysterious assailant was already terrorizing the women of London. Between 1788 and 1790, dozens of reports surfaced of women being stabbed with a spike hidden in a man’s floral arrangement or slashed across the buttocks by knives attached to a man’s knees. After a reward was offered for the capture of “the Monster,” vigilantes began assaulting suspicious men. In 1790, a suspect in the attacks was convicted of what unusual charge? Discuss