It's interesting that Moore seemed to think that the fact that all the victims were Gentile might be an indication that the killer was Jewish.
Now we know this argument had already been put forward in 1888-89.
If anything, I'd have thought it would be the other way round.
1: Moore says "all this population is honest" (although I take your point that it was a widespread view).
2: "However, he points out that none of the murdered women was Jewish, which, at first, led to the supposition that the murderer..."
3: according to Moore, Jack was most certainly a dosser - ie: a perfect nobody, whose religion cannot be deduced at this stage.
But in any case, my impression has always been that there were so many more Gentile prostitutes in the area that no conclusion could be drawn from the fact that there were no Jewish victims.
Amitiés,
David
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