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JPS - James Pavitt Sawyer
I have been reading the short Kindle book recently entitled "Hidden Suspect" by Frank Pearse.
I just wondered if anyone else had read this and if so had come to any conclusion.
The story, briefly put, is that Frank (though I doubt that it his real name) was made by his father to learn by heart a complex story about the Ripper murders. His father in turn had been made to perform this same duty by his father.
Frank's father also bequeathed to him a brown attache case. When the time came that frank opened the case he found it contained the following:
"The contents of the case comprised a brown manila envelope containing six sheets of closely written lined paper, signed by someone named John Pavitt Sawyer, a single, larger rolled printed sheet of thicker paper, 3 old photographs of long-dead family members, a masonic apron and collar, and a document relating to some property in East London."
It turned out that John Pavitt sawyer was Frank's grandfather's father in law, and the six page document was a handwritten confession to the Whietchapel crimes, which were committed by Sawyer and three others, though Sawyer was the principal assassin.
The confession was dated 1919 written on headed notepaper from West Ham Workhouse Hospital.
A very brief outline of the life of sawyer is given by Frank as follows:-
" According to my family history the Ripper was a man named John Pavitt Sawyer. Sawyer had been born in Whitechapel in 1839 and had worked from 1861 to 1874 at 135, Whitechapel High Street, relocating in late 1874 to 97 Whitechapel High Street, where he continued to live and work until his retirement in about 1911. After retirement Sawyer was reported to have moved to West Ham and then to the bedlam wing of the West Ham Workhouse Hospital where he wrote the account that was now in my hands. He died, of old age and a broken man in 1921."
The book contains a full transcription of the six page confession.
I have looked at the records and certainly John Pavitt Sawyer existed and the bare facts as given by Frank are true.
The three others involved in the killings are named and Frank has done a lot of background research but he ends the book with this passage:-
"I hope that others will take this information which I have herein placed before them, and research further the possible roles of the participants in this story. I will be pleased to hear from anyone who may find further information or may have further questions regarding matters that I may have overlooked or misinterpreted."
Anyone want to take him up on that?
I have been reading the short Kindle book recently entitled "Hidden Suspect" by Frank Pearse.
I just wondered if anyone else had read this and if so had come to any conclusion.
The story, briefly put, is that Frank (though I doubt that it his real name) was made by his father to learn by heart a complex story about the Ripper murders. His father in turn had been made to perform this same duty by his father.
Frank's father also bequeathed to him a brown attache case. When the time came that frank opened the case he found it contained the following:
"The contents of the case comprised a brown manila envelope containing six sheets of closely written lined paper, signed by someone named John Pavitt Sawyer, a single, larger rolled printed sheet of thicker paper, 3 old photographs of long-dead family members, a masonic apron and collar, and a document relating to some property in East London."
It turned out that John Pavitt sawyer was Frank's grandfather's father in law, and the six page document was a handwritten confession to the Whietchapel crimes, which were committed by Sawyer and three others, though Sawyer was the principal assassin.
The confession was dated 1919 written on headed notepaper from West Ham Workhouse Hospital.
A very brief outline of the life of sawyer is given by Frank as follows:-
" According to my family history the Ripper was a man named John Pavitt Sawyer. Sawyer had been born in Whitechapel in 1839 and had worked from 1861 to 1874 at 135, Whitechapel High Street, relocating in late 1874 to 97 Whitechapel High Street, where he continued to live and work until his retirement in about 1911. After retirement Sawyer was reported to have moved to West Ham and then to the bedlam wing of the West Ham Workhouse Hospital where he wrote the account that was now in my hands. He died, of old age and a broken man in 1921."
The book contains a full transcription of the six page confession.
I have looked at the records and certainly John Pavitt Sawyer existed and the bare facts as given by Frank are true.
The three others involved in the killings are named and Frank has done a lot of background research but he ends the book with this passage:-
"I hope that others will take this information which I have herein placed before them, and research further the possible roles of the participants in this story. I will be pleased to hear from anyone who may find further information or may have further questions regarding matters that I may have overlooked or misinterpreted."
Anyone want to take him up on that?
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