JTR identified?

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https://www.biography.com/crime/a46457835/jack-the-ripper-identity

[mpriestnall]

Abberline received this walking stick as a retirement present in 1892. Which means...

[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

I quote from the article:

“For the first time in history, Jack the Ripper can be identified as Hyam Hyams using distinctive physical characteristics,” Horton told The Telegraph regarding her theory. Reviewing medical notes for Hyams, Horton found that he had “an irregular gait and an inability to straighten his knees, with asymmetric foot-dragging.” Eyewitnesses in the Jack the Ripper investigation noted that the infamous killer also had an irregular gait.

Quite.

[Sam Flynn]

"This walking stick is significant because Abberline had carved into the cane the only existing composite image ever made of JTR, based on witness testimony."

- The face on that cane really does match most of the witness descriptions, especially those which reported a man who looked remarkably like Fu Manchu without the long, droopy moustache:



"Eyewitnesses in the Jack the Ripper investigation noted that the infamous killer also had an irregular gait."

- True. Even the suspects seen with Annie Chapman and Catherine Eddowes stood with a distinct limp.


"Horton says she has identified cigar maker Hyam Hyams as the real man behind JTR... Hyams’ profession likely means he was proficient with a knife"

- This was the clincher for me. Anyone who has cut a tobacco leaf, or trimmed the end off a Havana, will know how much skill is required.

[Michael W Richards]

I think, natural skepticism aside, that this is an interesting character in the whole scheme of things. "Hyam Hyams was a Jew, aged 33, of medium build, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with brown hair and - in a photograph of him taken c.1893-99 - sported a large moustache." So he does fit the general physical profile. There is also a good dissertation on him here... https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-hyams.html , it seems he was possibly related to Joseph Hyams who was one of the Three Wise Men that saw Kate outside Mitre Square. Seaside ID...Relative that refused to identify him? Institutionalized in Colney Hatch in 1890....seems his uncle used to have a cigar manufacturing business as early as 1861 at 8 Mitre Street, and it was just outside a window to that address that Kate was found in the square. That address is occupied by Taylor and Co at the time of the murders.

Some synchronicity. But as for Abberlines cane, wasnt that a gift from the residents of Whitechapel upon his promotion to Scotland Yard? Would he carve a face into that himself?