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I have a theory on George Hutchinson for being JtR. Its more of a “connect the dots” idea then bringing up anything new. Two things jumped out at me right from the start about GH and these two things taken together really put up the red flag about him for me initially. First, is the highly improbable detailed description of A-man along with fact he said he was Jewish looking. Secondly, is his admission of standing, waiting outside Millers Court the night of MK’s murder.
Later, upon learning about other facts of the case, which I will get into as I explain what I think might have happened, I began to think of the coincidences and how they might be connected.
Let me just say, that I don’t think that GH was definitely JtR, but that he, along with a handful of other candidates, makes a viable suspect. If he was JtR, then my idea goes like this:
JtR kills his first victims (Tabram perhaps, Nichols, Chapman)without getting caught but also without being seen-or seen well. It is the night of the double event where, for the first time, in his mind witnesses get a good look at him. With a reluctant Stride, who is taking longer for him to manipulate into a secluded area, he is perhaps seen by several witnesses. However, it is the last of these, Israel Schwartz, that’s the one that makes an impression in JtR’s mind. He is the witness that not only gets the first real good look at him, but actually sees him in a very incriminating situation-i.e-attacking (or beginning to attack) a victim. JtR shouts “Lipski” to scare away the Jewish looking Schwartz and continues his attack on Stride. Then, after being interrupted (twice) with Stride and not being able to fulfill his true desire to mutilate and take organs, he quickly leaves that “hot” area in search of another victim.
He finds another victim in Eddowes and finally has his way with her, but once again, not without being seen by three witnesses together, and most importantly of the three, Joseph Lawende. After these events and once he is done with Eddowes, JtR thinks could these witnesses be his downfall in the near future? At this point he decides he needs to do something to throw off the police who may very well be soon getting his description from these witnesses. So he writes the GSG implicating Jews and leaves a portion of Stride’s bloody apron.
That night, with Stride, he is seen by the Jewish looking Schwartz and then later by Lawende and his companions. Knowing he has been seen well, by not one, but possibly two to four Jews, JtR decides to use them as the scapegoat (false) suspect. He probably knows of the prevailing thought in the public/police/press that a Jew may be responsible for the first murders and along with perhaps being angry by being interrupted by them (and knowing, obviously, that he himself is not Jewish) he uses them as a very convenient way to point the way away from himself.
On the night of Mary Kelly’s murder, he is seen again by a witness by Sarah Lewis, as he waits outside of Miller’s court. After missing the inquest-where he knows there will be witnesses-he decides to make the bold decision to go to the police (on his terms) this time in his plan of misleading them further and to give a reason of why he was there that night. Perhaps he recognized Lewis that night and feared she might know him as well (perhaps even his name) since by his own admission he had known Mary Kelly for a long time. If there was a good chance they might be looking for him as a suspect who was perhaps suspiciously waiting and watching outside the murdered woman’s court, perhaps it was a good calculated risk to come forward as a potential witness instead.
And who is GH’s “suspect”? a Jew. To me the implication of a Jew in the GSG, the shouting of Lipski and then the direct description of a Jew by a “witness” is the connection to me that may all point back to GH as being the killer. A man with the confidence (arrogance), risk taking and manipulative prowess to pull off a night like the double event is the same kind of man who could go to the police with the A-man story. And we never hear from him again.
“The greatest trick the devil ever played on man, was to convince him he doesn’t exist.”
Later, upon learning about other facts of the case, which I will get into as I explain what I think might have happened, I began to think of the coincidences and how they might be connected.
Let me just say, that I don’t think that GH was definitely JtR, but that he, along with a handful of other candidates, makes a viable suspect. If he was JtR, then my idea goes like this:
JtR kills his first victims (Tabram perhaps, Nichols, Chapman)without getting caught but also without being seen-or seen well. It is the night of the double event where, for the first time, in his mind witnesses get a good look at him. With a reluctant Stride, who is taking longer for him to manipulate into a secluded area, he is perhaps seen by several witnesses. However, it is the last of these, Israel Schwartz, that’s the one that makes an impression in JtR’s mind. He is the witness that not only gets the first real good look at him, but actually sees him in a very incriminating situation-i.e-attacking (or beginning to attack) a victim. JtR shouts “Lipski” to scare away the Jewish looking Schwartz and continues his attack on Stride. Then, after being interrupted (twice) with Stride and not being able to fulfill his true desire to mutilate and take organs, he quickly leaves that “hot” area in search of another victim.
He finds another victim in Eddowes and finally has his way with her, but once again, not without being seen by three witnesses together, and most importantly of the three, Joseph Lawende. After these events and once he is done with Eddowes, JtR thinks could these witnesses be his downfall in the near future? At this point he decides he needs to do something to throw off the police who may very well be soon getting his description from these witnesses. So he writes the GSG implicating Jews and leaves a portion of Stride’s bloody apron.
That night, with Stride, he is seen by the Jewish looking Schwartz and then later by Lawende and his companions. Knowing he has been seen well, by not one, but possibly two to four Jews, JtR decides to use them as the scapegoat (false) suspect. He probably knows of the prevailing thought in the public/police/press that a Jew may be responsible for the first murders and along with perhaps being angry by being interrupted by them (and knowing, obviously, that he himself is not Jewish) he uses them as a very convenient way to point the way away from himself.
On the night of Mary Kelly’s murder, he is seen again by a witness by Sarah Lewis, as he waits outside of Miller’s court. After missing the inquest-where he knows there will be witnesses-he decides to make the bold decision to go to the police (on his terms) this time in his plan of misleading them further and to give a reason of why he was there that night. Perhaps he recognized Lewis that night and feared she might know him as well (perhaps even his name) since by his own admission he had known Mary Kelly for a long time. If there was a good chance they might be looking for him as a suspect who was perhaps suspiciously waiting and watching outside the murdered woman’s court, perhaps it was a good calculated risk to come forward as a potential witness instead.
And who is GH’s “suspect”? a Jew. To me the implication of a Jew in the GSG, the shouting of Lipski and then the direct description of a Jew by a “witness” is the connection to me that may all point back to GH as being the killer. A man with the confidence (arrogance), risk taking and manipulative prowess to pull off a night like the double event is the same kind of man who could go to the police with the A-man story. And we never hear from him again.
“The greatest trick the devil ever played on man, was to convince him he doesn’t exist.”
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