Jacobs the slaughterhouse butcher

[Uncle Jack]

Just reading about the man Jacobs who was a butcher in a slaughterhouse. He caused a similar scare to Leather Apron after the Coles murder. There isn't much about Jacobs in C.J's suspect guide. Does anyone know anything more about him?

[Chris Scott]

Benjamin Leeson:
"... a story circulated that the Ripper was a butcher, who wore blue overalls and a leather apron, and an English Jew named Jacobs, a perfectly harmless man, somehow attracted suspicion to himself. Possibly because, working in a slaughter house, he always wore a leather apron.
People would point Jacobs out in the street as a suspected man, and more than once he had to run for it. I myself was often obliged to take him to the police station for protection. The thing so preyed on the poor fellow's mind that it finally caused him to lose his reason."
Lost London

[Uncle Jack]

Thanks Chris, as always

[Uncle Jack]

So it seems there wasn't really any reason to suspect him apart from him being a bit odd.........