Why are 3 suspects missing?

[JTRSickert]

hi everyone. Here's a question for you all. How come we get no mention of either Druitt, Kosminski, or Ostrog in any of the Ripper files and reports from the Met or City of London police until Macnaughten publishes their names in his memorandum? Do we know of any probable cause that made the police check them out as suspects? If so, why are they not mentioned by the chief investigators?

[Mascara & Paranoia]

He probably just plucked three random peoples' names out of a hat for the occasion. Why they're even suspects at all, I don't know.

I can kind of understand Aaron being there, but from what's been found out about him, he was more or less harmless (knife-waving issues aside) and probably a good few years younger than the Ripper (all the eye witness accounts put the 'killer' as being in his thirties, which I'm inclined to believe as true).

Good question though.

[ChrisGeorge]

He probably just plucked three random peoples' names out of a hat for the occasion. Why they're even suspects at all, I don't know.

I can kind of understand Aaron being there, but from what's been found out about him, he was more or less harmless (knife-waving issues aside) and probably a good few years younger than the Ripper (all the eye witness accounts put the 'killer' as being in his thirties, which I'm inclined to believe as true).

Good question though.

One way to view Macnaghten's choice to name the three men is that it was a political decision made by Macnaghten to name three suspects who were less troublesome politically and more probable suspects than Thomas Hayne Cutbush, a nephew of Scotland Yard Superintendent Charles Cutbush. The case against Thomas Hayne Cutbush had been mentioned in the Sun newspaper (though without naming him), and the newspaper's mention of the Cutbush case prompted the memorandum to be written for the Home Secretary in case questions came up about it in Parliament.

C