Crime-Fighting Rivals: Sherlock Holmes vs. Scotland Yard Frederick Wensley was a Scotland Yard legend. He was twenty-two when he joined the Metropolitan Police in 1888, just months before the serial killer who became known as Jack the Ripper murdered at least five women. He was among the hundreds of bobbies seconded to patrol Whitechapel’s streets and he never forgot the “atmosphere of terror” in the downtrodden neighborhood. He nailed strips of rubber cut from bicycle tires to the soles of his boots to muffle the sound of his footsteps, in hopes of taking the fiend by surprise. Wensley joined the