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In July the American version of The Escape Of Jack The Ripper by Jon Hainsworth and Christine Ward-Agius will be available with new information. Jon has asked me to post this message.
“We thank those who have given our revisionist account a fair go.
We argue that Montague Druitt is not a suspect in the Whitechapel murders. He was the solution to a handful of upper class Victorians, including a police chief (and members of the killer's own family), who broadly shared their solution with the public: Jack the English gentleman above suspicion, not Jack the poor, non-Christian immigrant of widespread prejudice. Between 1898 to about the mid-20's the public knew that The Ripper had been identified by the 'police', but never named in public (as he could not receive due process).
Druitt did not 'die at the right time'. He drowned himself at the 'wrong' time; over two years too early. Macnaghten misled people with his sly memos, about Mary Jane Kelly being known to be the final victim of a serial maniac when found - but he admitted the truth in his 1914 memoirs: the cops were unknowingly chasing a ghost for years.
The Dagonet (George Sims) source from the Dec 1st 1891 issue of "The Referee" found by Christine, and that is accessible on the other site is, we argue, one of the 'smoking guns' for our theory. Sims, the close pal of Macnaghten, 'speculates' that the murderer is likely dead, a suicide, that he had been young, a gentleman, a brunette, slightly built yet strong, who expressed insincere regret for his crimes, that he was a genius at evading capture, that he had "dabbled" but not qualified in scientific studies (and whose date of death does not explain the murders ceasing, as they haven't yet).
The whole truth about M. J. Druitt was unknown to Scotland Yard as an institution. The upper class Macnaghten did not trust his colleagues (and loathed Anderson). Affable "Mac" told everybody that their suspect was likely the killer and further lied that they were deceased, and sometimes a suicide too: "Kosminski" (Anderson and Swanson); Dr. Tumblety (Littlechild); died in a U.S. asylum (Tom Divall); William Grant (George Kebbel); medical student (Dr. Forbes Winslow, Osbert Sitwell) butcher died in Australia (Robert Sagar). Yet these suspects were not dead and/or a suicide: this was true only of Montie Druitt.
The terms "doctor" and "surgeon" in Victorian England were interchangeable with "medical student" (Macnaghten, Abberline, Basil Thomson, the north country vicar, et al).”
“We thank those who have given our revisionist account a fair go.
We argue that Montague Druitt is not a suspect in the Whitechapel murders. He was the solution to a handful of upper class Victorians, including a police chief (and members of the killer's own family), who broadly shared their solution with the public: Jack the English gentleman above suspicion, not Jack the poor, non-Christian immigrant of widespread prejudice. Between 1898 to about the mid-20's the public knew that The Ripper had been identified by the 'police', but never named in public (as he could not receive due process).
Druitt did not 'die at the right time'. He drowned himself at the 'wrong' time; over two years too early. Macnaghten misled people with his sly memos, about Mary Jane Kelly being known to be the final victim of a serial maniac when found - but he admitted the truth in his 1914 memoirs: the cops were unknowingly chasing a ghost for years.
The Dagonet (George Sims) source from the Dec 1st 1891 issue of "The Referee" found by Christine, and that is accessible on the other site is, we argue, one of the 'smoking guns' for our theory. Sims, the close pal of Macnaghten, 'speculates' that the murderer is likely dead, a suicide, that he had been young, a gentleman, a brunette, slightly built yet strong, who expressed insincere regret for his crimes, that he was a genius at evading capture, that he had "dabbled" but not qualified in scientific studies (and whose date of death does not explain the murders ceasing, as they haven't yet).
The whole truth about M. J. Druitt was unknown to Scotland Yard as an institution. The upper class Macnaghten did not trust his colleagues (and loathed Anderson). Affable "Mac" told everybody that their suspect was likely the killer and further lied that they were deceased, and sometimes a suicide too: "Kosminski" (Anderson and Swanson); Dr. Tumblety (Littlechild); died in a U.S. asylum (Tom Divall); William Grant (George Kebbel); medical student (Dr. Forbes Winslow, Osbert Sitwell) butcher died in Australia (Robert Sagar). Yet these suspects were not dead and/or a suicide: this was true only of Montie Druitt.
The terms "doctor" and "surgeon" in Victorian England were interchangeable with "medical student" (Macnaghten, Abberline, Basil Thomson, the north country vicar, et al).”
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