How would YOU catch the Ripper?

[Fisherman]

Sounds fair, but why would Koz or Montie or the Doc or any other suspect go to visit Charlie.

They would be as curious as you are to find out what the Ripper looked like, thatīs why.
And no, Charlie did not see him in Buckīs Row, so that he was able to tell them about it...

The best,
Fisherman

[c.d.]

If I had been the police, I think I might have tried to tie together workers' pay days and by workers I mean slaughter men or those used to working with a knife. I somehow envision a Jack with money or at least money he could flash around. That would mean a pay day. I would take Lawende's description and make the rounds of slaughter houses to see if anybody fit that description by checking with the manager and then check time cards to see if that individual got paid the day of the murders.

Yes, it would be a long shot but at least a start.

c.d.

[Rosella]

What if Jack was, say, a self-employed butcher? Surely he'd have some money in his tills every day. We don't know that Victorian slaughter-houses used time-cards, do we? Some slaughter houses seem to have been quite small, casually run operations. There would have been shifts which men worked until the finish, but took breaks in between in which they went for short walks outside in the fresh air.

And what if a man working there did resemble Lawende's description? It wouldn't mean anything without further back-up. Jack may well have been one of the hundreds of men questioned by the police that autumn but they didn't see anything suspicious, he kept a cool head, and escaped further investigation.