Swanson Family Tradition

[Robert]

Mr Swanson's remark that Aaron Kosminski was identified, seems obviously wrong.

[Monty]

Stewart,

Beyond reasonable doubt eh?

Reasonable to whom?

Monty

[Chris]

[quoting Nevill Swanson] Along with others of his papers, I have loaned them to the Metropolitan Police Museum at new Scotland Yard, where researchers may be able to study them.

I thought the book had actually been donated to the museum. That's what was reported at the time.

[Mike Covell]

East London Advertiser,
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.u...A32%3A23%3A820

Times Online,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...icle687489.ece

Psychology in Action,
http://www.psychinaction.com/index.c...eID=485&sID=11

Letters to the Telegraph contained the following,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...lit/dt1601.xml
Letters to the Telegraph

16 November 2008

the Ripper

The article pointing the finger at Thomas Hayne Cutbush as being the Ripper reinforces a theory I have long held that there is an industry which would die were the identity of the Ripper ever to be proved.

However, the identity was proved, beyond all reasonable doubt, at the time. My great grandfather, Donald Sutherland Swanson, was the detective in total charge of the Ripper murders. His private papers contain his handwritten identification of Aaron Kosminski as the Ripper.

Along with others of his papers, I have loaned them to the Metropolitan Police Museum at new Scotland Yard, where researchers may be able to study them.

Nevill Swanson, Worcester
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[Stewart P Evans]

I see that Nevill Swanson, Jim Swanson's son and Donald Swanson's great grandson, is continuing the family tradition of claiming that Donald Swanson solved the Ripper case.

Subsequent to an article in the Sunday Telegraph of 9 November 2008, about Cutbush as a possible Ripper, Nevill Swanson responded in the Editor's letters section of the Sunday Telegraph of 16 November 2008, wherein he states that "the identity was proved, beyond all reasonable doubt, at the time..." -