Identifying Hutchinson

[Debra A]

I can't find any newspaper report of Hutchinson being 28. I just love wild goose chases!

Who knows, Debra? That might just be our 'groom'. He was found drunk and hanging off the neck of a taxi horse!

http://www.casebook.org/press_report.../18870902.html

The watch stealer was researched many years ago, Maybea-although I only found his signature within the last couple of years. His actual name was George Thomas Hutchison and not Hutchinson.

[Amanda]

I can't find any newspaper report of Hutchinson being 28. I just love wild goose chases!

Who knows, Debra? That might just be our 'groom'. He was found drunk and hanging off the neck of a taxi horse!

http://www.casebook.org/press_report.../18870902.html

Hi MayBea/Debra,

To be honest, there were so many George Hutchinson's living in London at the time that it's hard to know which is the right one without a specific age.
At the moment I am inclined to believe that the 33 year old watch-stealer is a much more likely candidate than the 22 year old George Topping Hutchinson.
So, here goes to a weekend of sifting through news reports....
Amanda

[MayBea]

I can't find any newspaper report of Hutchinson being 28. I just love wild goose chases!

...the age of 33 might have come from the association of the witness with the George Hutchi(n)son arrested for watch stealing in 1887 as that was his age.

Who knows, Debra? That might just be our 'groom'. He was found drunk and hanging off the neck of a taxi horse!

http://www.casebook.org/press_report.../18870902.html

[Amanda]

Thanks MayBea/Debra,

If that age group (28-33) is correct, then George Topping Hutchinson would not fit the bill.
I've found another George Hutchinson with very interesting details & was just deciding whether to dig deeper, think I might just do that now.

If anyone can find a specific report with a definite age I would appreciate it, can't cope with too many wild goose chases at my age
Amanda

[Debra A]

In The Definitive, Bob Hinton is quoted as saying that all the papers that gave Hutchinson's age said he was 28.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ODa...n%2028&f=false

I haven't checked the press reports or the sources yet.

Thanks, Maybea-That's strange, -I don't recall any newspaper report that gives an age for Hutchinson. I was going to post to Amanda (Hi Amanda) that it had been suggested by Bob Hinton that one paper gave Hutchinson's age as 33 and that no one ever found that particular article again. I have suggested in the past that the age of 33 might have come from the association of the witness with the George Hutchi(n)son arrested for watch stealing in 1887 as that was his age.

[MayBea]

In The Definitive, Bob Hinton is quoted as saying that all the papers that gave Hutchinson's age said he was 28.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=ODa...n%2028&f=false

I haven't checked the press reports or the sources yet.

[Amanda]

Hi Amanda.
Mary Kelly was approx 24-25 years old,, so what is wrong with a young man of 22 years being familiar with her, I have no doubt at all, that Topping was the witness..but not many people agree ..
Regards Richard..

Hi Richard,
I'm not doubting that it COULD have been a 22 year old Hutchinson, simply the possibility that it MIGHT have been a different person to Topping.

I'm just trying to get some concrete facts about him & see if it fits with what I've found so far.
Amanda

[richardnunweek]

Hi Amanda.
Mary Kelly was approx 24-25 years old,, so what is wrong with a young man of 22 years being familiar with her, I have no doubt at all, that Topping was the witness..but not many people agree ..
Regards Richard..

[Amanda]

Just wondering, does anyone know of any documents or newspaper reports that give George Hutchinson's age?

I know that the family of 'George Topping Hutchinson' said he was born in 1866, which would mean he was 22 years old at the time of the Ripper murders.
I'm looking at the possibility of it being a different George Hutchinson who would have been slightly older...

Anyone able to shed light on this?
Thanks,
Amanda