| Sir Melville Macnaghten, |
Chief Inspector Donald Swanson |
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Sir Melville Macnaghten
The first three of these suspects were nominated by Sir Melville
Macnaghten, who joined the Metropolitan Police as Assistant Chief
Constable, second in command of the Criminal Investigation Deptment (C.I.D.)
at Scotland Yard in June 1889. They were named in a report dated 23
February 1894, although there is no evidence of contemporary police
suspicion against the three at the time of the murders. Indeed,
Macnaghten's report contains several odd factual errors.
Chief Inspector Donald Swanson
Kosminski was certainly favoured by the head of the C.I.D. Dr. Robert
Anderson, and the officer in charge of the case, Chief Inspector Donald
Swanson. Druitt appears to have been Macnaghten's preferred candidate,
whilst the fact that Ostrog was arrested and incarcerated before the
report was compiled leaves the historian puzzling why he was included as
a viable suspect in the first place
Crhymes
What has to be understood is the fact that the 'Ripper' murders and the
'Whitechapel murders' are not the same thing, although the latter does
include the 'Ripper' murders. So to set the scene, the list of the
eleven Whitechapel murders, (all of which at some stage have been looked
upon as 'Ripper' murders), was as follows.
| Date |
Victim |
Circumstances |
| Tuesday 3 April
1888 |
Emma Elizabeth
Smith |
Assaulted and
robbed in Osborn Street, Whitechapel. |
| Tuesday 7
August 1888 |
Martha Tabram
|
George Yard
Buildings,
George Yard, Whitechapel. |
| Friday 31
August 1888 |
Mary Ann
Nichols |
Buck's Row,
Whitechapel, |
| Saturday 8
September 1888 |
Annie Chapman
|
Rear Yard at 29
Hanbury Street,
Spitalfields. |
| Sunday 30
September 1888 |
Elizabeth
Stride |
Yard at side of
40 Berner Street,
St Georges-in-the- East. |
| Sunday 30
September 1888 |
Catherine
Eddowes |
Mitre Square,
Aldgate, City of London. |
| Friday 9
November 1888 |
Mary Jane Kelly
|
13 Miller's
Court,
26 Dorset Street Spitalfields. |
| Thursday 20
December 1888 |
Rose Mylett
|
Clarke's Yard,
High Street. Poplar. |
| Wednesday 17
July 1889 |
Alice McKenzie |
Castle Alley,
Whitechapel. |
| Tuesday 10
September 1889 |
Unknown female
torso |
Found under
railway arch in Pinchin Street, Whitechapel, |
| Friday 13
February 1891 |
Frances Coles
|
Under railway
arch, Swallow Gardens, Whitechapel |
Throat cutting attended the murders of Nichols, Chapman,
Stride, Eddowes, Kelly, McKenzie and Coles. In all except the cases of
Stride and Mylett there was abdominal mutilation. In the case of Chapman
the uterus was taken away by the killer; Eddowes' uterus and left kidney
were taken; and in Kelly's case, evidence suggests, the heart.
The murders were considered too much for the local Whitechapel (H)
Division C.I.D, headed by Detective Inspector Edmund Reid, to handle
alone. Assistance was sent from the Central Office at Scotland Yard,
after the Nichols murder, in the persons of Detective Inspectors,
Frederick George Abberline, Henry Moore, and Walter Andrews, together
with a team of subordinate officers. Reinforcements were drafted into
the area to supplement the local men. After the Eddowes murder the City
Police, under Detective Inspector James McWilliam, were also engaged on
the hunt for the killer.
Every one of these murders remained unsolved, no person
was ever convicted of any of them
The name is easy to explain. It was written at the end
of a letter, dated 25 September, 1888, and received by the Central News
Agency on 27 September, 1888. They, in turn, forwarded it to the
Metropolitan Police on 29 September
The letter was couched in lurid prose and began..
Dear Boss......
It went on to speak of
That joke about Leather Apron gave me real fits......'
I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them till I
do get buckled...
The appended "trade name" of Jack the Ripper was then
made public and further excited the imagination of the populace.
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