Help Track A Suspect: Butcher

[DaveMc]

Dave,

Do you mean other than the slaughtermen who were called to the Nichols inquest? Someone chalked on their door 'The murderers are here', and that was the first graffiti associated with the murders.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Tom,

It's time to bang my head on the desk.
The Nichols inquest was one of the first things I read on this site and I have completely forgotten about those men.

Well there you go. Half solved.

But, as it turns out, no mention of the roving mob of graffitti writers mentioned in the Nichols Inquest report.
Perhaps they erased it themselves to outwit us 21st Century detectives.
Crafty devils.

Great help mentioning the Nichols case.
Thanks

[DaveMc]

Hi DaveMc,

Nichols: Harrison Barber slaughterhouse, Winthrop Street.

Chapman: Harrison Barber slaughterhouse, Barber's Yard, Hanbury Street.

Eddowes: Slaughterhouse, Harrow Alley, Aldgate.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Simon

Wow Simon,

I don't think I could hope for better than that.

Unless you happen to have the local listing for every soul, pet, vermin and insect living within a Kilometer radius of each area.
I might as well throw in the nearest abattoirs for Kelly and Stride.

I don't mean to be greedy, I just am out of habit.

I am most surprised by the Eddowes location.
I sincerely did not expect to find one there.
It fits into that nagging thought that the killer was headed home from the Stride attack when he met Catherine.

I realize that it's a stretch on the timeline but the thought persists.

That's great.
Thank you.

[DaveMc]

Simon and Tom,

I see now I'm not the first to be on this trail.

http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-butchersrow.html

A dissertation by Scott Nelson

This is Kosminski I have stuck in my mind from another path.
Could it really be so simple to intersect on that name?
(the first thing I feel is doubt, but there it is)

The problem is that I already have some dismissals for that suspect.
I fear my family will be hearing me at the bathroom mirror in a heated debate with myself.

Nevertheless...

I would not have gotten to that so quickly without you.
Interesting.

[Simon Wood]

Hi DaveMc,

Here's a few more Harrison Barber slaughterhouse locations—



Even the press remarked on their proximity to the murder sites—

The Star, 8th September 1888—

"BARBER'S SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
It is a singular fact that only a few steps from the house where the woman was found is - as in the Buck's-row case - one of Barber's slaughterhouses."

Regards,

Simon

[DaveMc]

How are you finding these things?
I've been straining my eyes through hours of fruitless clicking.

[DVV]

Someone chalked on their door 'The murderers are here', and that was the first graffiti associated with the murders.

Tom Wescott

Unfortunately, Warren wasn't present to have it erased.
Hence the subsequent onslaught upon the butchers in Whitechapel.

Amitiés,
David

[DaveMc]

Tom gave me the biggest laugh I've had in this forum so far.

I can't fault the man for his wit.

[Chris]

Of course, the other reason butchers are of interest is the statement attributed to Robert Sagar that the City CID suspected a man who worked in Butcher's Row (Aldgate High Street). Scott Nelson's dissertation on Butcher's Row has already been mentioned.

Here's an interesting report from the Jewish Chronicle of 23 November 1877 of the award of prizes by the Shechitah Board to the employees of the best-conducted slaughterhouses in Aldgate, offered "with the view of encouraging the humane treatment of the animals by the men employed in the slaughter-houses used by Jews".

The businesses named appear to have been at nos 44, 57 and 59 Aldgate High Street. It's interesting that the recipients of the awards were all Christians.

[RockySullivan]

The Harrison barber slaughter houses with two location in close proximity to murder sites is very intriguing. Where butchers that worked at Harrison barber where the graffiti was chalked? Is there anyway to look into these butchers who where accused? Perhaps someone saw something suspicious