Rating The Suspects.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Version 18

(A) Age/physical health > 2 = no issue/1 = issues creating doubt.

(B) Access to murder sites > 2 = no issues/ 1 = within reasonable travel (train for e.g./ 0 = presence unproven/doubt

(C) Violence > 4 = murder of a woman with a knife/ 3 = murder of a woman (including the use of a knife) or murder with another weapon/ 2 = wounding a woman with a knife/ 1 = threatening a woman with a knife or physical violence using a weapon/ 0 = no violence (with knife or otherwise)

(D) Mental health issues > 2 = serious/violent/sexual/1 = other/0 = none known.

(E) Police interest > 2 = at the time (without exoneration)/1 = later (within 10 yrs and without exoneration)/0 = none known, not serious or exonerated.

(F) Hatred/dislike of women/prostitutes > 2 = yes/1 = link to prostitutes/0 = none known.

(G) Medical/anatomical knowledge (inc. animals) > 1 = yes/0 = none known

(H) Alcohol/drug issue > 1 = yes/0 = none known.



--- (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) (F) (G) (H) ---

13 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kelly, James
11 = 2 - 2 - 3 - 0 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Bury, William Henry
11 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Puckridge, Oswald
10 = 2 - 0 - 4 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Deeming, Frederick Bailey
10 = 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 : Grainger, William Grant
09 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cutbush, Thomas Hayne
09 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 : Hyams, Hyam
08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Kosminski, Aaron (Aron Mordke Kozminski)
08 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Lechmere, George Capel Scudamore
08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 : Barnado, Thomas John
08 = 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Pizer, John (Leather Apron)
08 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Cohen, David
07 = 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 : Tumblety, Francis
07 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 : Smith, G. Wentworth Bell
07 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Kidney, Michael
07 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 1 : Thompson, Francis
06 = 2 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Chapman, George (Severin Antonowicz Kłosowski)
06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Levy, Jacob
06 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Druitt, Montague John
06 = 2 - 0 - 4 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Carl Feigenbaum
06 = 2 - 0 - 3 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hendrik De Jong
05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Barnett, Joseph
05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 : Stephenson, Robert Donston (or Roslyn D'Onston)
05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Sutton, Henry Gawen
05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Buchan, Edward
05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Williams, Dr. John
05 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Craig, Francis Spurzheim
05 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 1 : Maybrick, James
04 = 2 - 1 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Stephen, James Kenneth
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Bachert, Albert
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Cross, Charles (Charles Allen Lechmere)
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hardiman, James
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Hutchinson, George
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Mann, Robert
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Le Grand, Charles
04 = 2 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 : Maybrick, Michael
04 = 1 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 : Gull, Sir William Withey
03 = 2 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 : Sickert, Walter Richard



Changes Made


Altered criteria’s (B) and (C)

Made amendments in line with the 2 new criteria (B) and (C)

New suspects added - Carl Feigenbaum and Hendrik De Jong

[Lewis C]

I would include him personally, because otherwise Deeming should be omitted too.

It still can't be definitively confirmed that Deeming was in England at the time of the Ripper murders.

If Feugenbaum is excluded, than Deeming must be disregarded also, based on the same parameters.

The fact that Feigenbaum was also a convicted killer, means that he should be included IMO.

I believe that Deeming can be proven to have been in England at the time, he just can't be proven to have been in the London area. But though I disagree with your example, I agree with your point. Sickert almost certainly wasn't in England at the time of some of the murders, so if Sickert can be included, Feigenbaum can be too. If anything, I'd say it's more likely that Feigenbaum was there than that Sickert was there for all of them.

[Fiver]

I get annoyed at myself for errors like this one but they have to be put right so thanks for pointing it out Fiver. I’ll change it for the next version,

I only caught it because the discussion of Henry Smith's suspect showed that was probably Puckridge, which means he had an alibi. There are so many suspects that no one knows everything about all of them and that's before we get to errors made by available sources or speculation that was presented as fact.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I believe that Deeming can be proven to have been in England at the time, he just can't be proven to have been in the London area. But though I disagree with your example, I agree with your point. Sickert almost certainly wasn't in England at the time of some of the murders, so if Sickert can be included, Feigenbaum can be too. If anything, I'd say it's more likely that Feigenbaum was there than that Sickert was there for all of them.

I’ll have a look into the Deeming question later today Lewis. I do have one or maybe two books on Deeming as a suspect as well as Morley’s book.

[The Rookie Detective]

I have always found it interesting as to why the police at New Scotland Yard chose to use the death mask of Deeming in reference to his being the face of Jack the Ripper.

His face was used for many years for visitors to the Black Museum, that in 1892 (when Deeming was hanged) was housed in the same basement; and only a few yards away from where the Whitehall Torso was found just 4 years earlier; on the same weekend as the "double event."

Eerie to say the least.