The suspects has varied with doctors jotted up, slaughtermen (the removal of the victim’s organs implied knowledge of body structure and insides), Jews, or other foreigners living in Whitechapel’s large community of immigrants. Research on the potential candidates are often dated back to 1959, the year when the book titled ‘Macnaghten Memorandum’ was published. In it names three Scotland Yard suspects: “The three chief suspects named in his document were Montague Druitt, ‘Kosminski’, a Polish Jew, and ‘Michael Ostrog, a Russian doctor’.” The man behind this book is “Sir Melville MacNaghten (1853-1921) had joined Scotland Yard in June 1889, eight months after the last murder, and served as Assistant Chief Constable and Chief Constable of Scotland
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The cause of Druitt's suicide seems to be by a scandal revolving him or by his depression (most likely developed from his mother who spent her years in an asylum). Proof has also been found that suspect Druitt was playing a fair game of cricket in Dorset, a county in South West England. This took place six hours after Mary (Polly) Nichols had been murdered (Rubinstein 3). While Druitt will stay as a prime suspect for the identity of Jack the Ripper, due in part by MacNaghten, he is one with little evidence (Rubinstein 4). Meanwhile, according to John George Littlechild, chief inspector and head of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard from 1883 until 1893, had asserted that American Doctor Francis Tumblety was a major suspect of being Jack the Ripper. Tumblety was Irish born in approximately 1833 and was the youngest of three brothers and eight sisters. Many had described him negatively with words such as “a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy; utterly deprived of education.” In 1857, he had been arrested by Detective Simard of the Montreal Police for attempting to perform an abortion on a 17-year-old prostitute, Philomene Dumas (Begg, Paul, Evans 5). In July of 1888, he moved to England, only a month before the
The cause of Druitt's suicide seems to be by a scandal revolving him or by his depression (most likely developed from his mother who spent her years in an asylum). Proof has also been found that suspect Druitt was playing a fair game of cricket in Dorset, a county in South West England. This took place six hours after Mary (Polly) Nichols had been murdered (Rubinstein 3). While Druitt will stay as a prime suspect for the identity of Jack the Ripper, due in part by MacNaghten, he is one with little evidence (Rubinstein 4). Meanwhile, according to John George Littlechild, chief inspector and head of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard from 1883 until 1893, had asserted that American Doctor Francis Tumblety was a major suspect of being Jack the Ripper. Tumblety was Irish born in approximately 1833 and was the youngest of three brothers and eight sisters. Many had described him negatively with words such as “a dirty, awkward, ignorant, uncared-for, good-for-nothing boy; utterly deprived of education.” In 1857, he had been arrested by Detective Simard of the Montreal Police for attempting to perform an abortion on a 17-year-old prostitute, Philomene Dumas (Begg, Paul, Evans 5). In July of 1888, he moved to England, only a month before the