Suspect Deaths

[clark2710]

Did any of the suspects not meet a violent end? Were they all executed, beaten to death, or what have you? Which ones died of old age or even just a common illness of the time?

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Kosminski

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Oh, Lechmere of course. Lived to a ripe old age.

[Scott Nelson]

Get yourself a copy of the Jack the Ripper A to Z.

[Pcdunn]

Didn't James Kelly die of age?
Francis Tumblety died of age and in poverty.
Poet Francis Thompson died of illness.
I think the other suspects who were well-known creative types like author Lewis Carroll and artist Walter Sickert also all died of more natural causes.

I wonder if a violent death is a better indicator of a person's tendency to be a violent killer? My first thought is, not necessarily.

[clark2710]

Get yourself a copy of the Jack the Ripper A to Z.

I do need to start my book collection again

[clark2710]

Kosminski

I don't know I mean he died in an asylum didn't he; of gangrene? I mean that's not executed but that's certainly a painful death.

[John Wheat]

William Henry Bury was the last man to be hung in Dundee.

[Pcdunn]

I don't know I mean he died in an asylum didn't he; of gangrene? I mean that's not executed but that's certainly a painful death.

True, but I think gangrene wasn't that uncommon back then.

[clark2710]

True, but I think gangrene wasn't that uncommon back then.

Indeed point taken