FREDERICO ALBERRICI
Alberrici an Italian-American, is identified as a footman called Frederick, employed by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals.
Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor and commoner Annie
Crook. According to Fairclough, Alberrici, along with coachman John Netley, first questioned and then murdered 45 year old Emma Elizabeth Smith, in April 1888 because she was friends with Ripper victims Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman, and presented a danger. Smith was threatened then beaten up. The beating was particularly brutal and a stick or blunt object was pushed forcibly into her vagina, tearing her perineum; she died in hospital the following day from her Injuries. Smith, shortly before she slipped into a coma and died, claimed she was assaulted by three or possibly four men, one a youth of about …show more content…
His lists of conquests seemed endless; actress Lilly Langtry was replaced by the socialite Daisy Brooke, who in turn was replaced by the actress Sarah Bernhardt, followed by society matron Alice Keppel. A court appearance in a notorious divorce case (he was named as one of the many lovers of Lady Mordant; he denied the affair and her Ladyship was certified insane and institutionalized), brought him bad press, and his lifestyle made him unpopular with the public. During a tour of Cork in 1885 the crowd hissed, booed and threw onions at him. On the death of Queen Victoria he was crowned King. Now portly, balding, bearded and nearly 60 years of age, he reigned from 1901 until
Alberrici an Italian-American, is identified as a footman called Frederick, employed by eminent surgeon and Ripper suspect Sir William Gull, at 78 Brook Street, by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper And The Royals.
Alberrici is included, not because he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper himself, but because he was said to be part of the Masonic conspiracy theory, and was alleged to have aided Gull in his search for the prostitutes who knew of the alleged secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor and commoner Annie
Crook. According to Fairclough, Alberrici, along with coachman John Netley, first questioned and then murdered 45 year old Emma Elizabeth Smith, in April 1888 because she was friends with Ripper victims Mary Ann Nichols and Annie Chapman, and presented a danger. Smith was threatened then beaten up. The beating was particularly brutal and a stick or blunt object was pushed forcibly into her vagina, tearing her perineum; she died in hospital the following day from her Injuries. Smith, shortly before she slipped into a coma and died, claimed she was assaulted by three or possibly four men, one a youth of about …show more content…
His lists of conquests seemed endless; actress Lilly Langtry was replaced by the socialite Daisy Brooke, who in turn was replaced by the actress Sarah Bernhardt, followed by society matron Alice Keppel. A court appearance in a notorious divorce case (he was named as one of the many lovers of Lady Mordant; he denied the affair and her Ladyship was certified insane and institutionalized), brought him bad press, and his lifestyle made him unpopular with the public. During a tour of Cork in 1885 the crowd hissed, booed and threw onions at him. On the death of Queen Victoria he was crowned King. Now portly, balding, bearded and nearly 60 years of age, he reigned from 1901 until