I have always been intrigued by this character that Annie Chapman stayed with in her latter days before her murder and how he came by his nickname.
Also the fact that he only lived in Osborn Street and yet stayed with Annie in the lodging house over some weekends maybe means he was a married man or he wanted to keep his 2 lives seperate.
The soap he gave/loaned her of course led up to a sequence of events that ended in her murder.
Could it be that it is something as simple as he was a pensioner ?
The way nicknames were thrown around at the time i doubt it but does anyone have any opinions or theories about him ?