not a doctor, but a barrister and schoolmaster. He did not commit suicide straight after the last murder, but some three weeks later. Records show Druitt lived alone at 9 Eliot Place, and did not reside with his family as Macnaghten claimed in his memoranda. Macnaghten told the Daily Mail on 2
June
1913 that he joined the yard six months after the Ripper committed suicide, saying,
'I have a very clear idea who the Ripper was', adding however, that he would never reveal it, saying, 'I have destroyed all my documents and there is now no record of the secret information which came into my possession at one time or another'.
Unfortunately, the secret information Sir Melville
Macnaghten claimed to possess, which caused him to favor
Druitt, above …show more content…
Author Peter Fisher proposed John Moses Eppstein as a possible Ripper suspect. Fisher pondered the question of how the Ripper was able to escape blood-stained through the streets of Whitechapel without attracting undue attention. He came to the conclusion that the Ripper wore a cassock over his blood-stained work clothes and was in fact a clergyman. Fisher believed the suspect seen by witness George Hutchinson carrying a parcel contained not a knife or knives as some theorists have believed but in fact a cassock. Fisher also concurred with the press reports at the time which stated that the murders, by their very bestiality, could not have been the work of an Englishman. Fisher looked to Turkey and reports that Turkish troops had committed 'The most heinous crime that had stained the history of the present century'. Fisher began a search of the relevant records for a clergyman with a Turkish connection, and discovered John Moses Eppstein, in the Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1888. Eppstein became a Deacon in 1858 and a priest in 1862. He was a missionary in Turkey between the years 1867-1887. His son William Charles Eppstein was the curate at St Mary's Spital Square Whitechapel 1887-89. Fisher theorized that with Epstein's son working in the district it gave his father the perfect opportunity to acquaint himself with the area using the pretext of visiting his son. When his son moved to a new position in Stowmarket the opportunity to prowl the East End no longer presented itself this believes Fisher explains the sudden cessation of the
June
1913 that he joined the yard six months after the Ripper committed suicide, saying,
'I have a very clear idea who the Ripper was', adding however, that he would never reveal it, saying, 'I have destroyed all my documents and there is now no record of the secret information which came into my possession at one time or another'.
Unfortunately, the secret information Sir Melville
Macnaghten claimed to possess, which caused him to favor
Druitt, above …show more content…
Author Peter Fisher proposed John Moses Eppstein as a possible Ripper suspect. Fisher pondered the question of how the Ripper was able to escape blood-stained through the streets of Whitechapel without attracting undue attention. He came to the conclusion that the Ripper wore a cassock over his blood-stained work clothes and was in fact a clergyman. Fisher believed the suspect seen by witness George Hutchinson carrying a parcel contained not a knife or knives as some theorists have believed but in fact a cassock. Fisher also concurred with the press reports at the time which stated that the murders, by their very bestiality, could not have been the work of an Englishman. Fisher looked to Turkey and reports that Turkish troops had committed 'The most heinous crime that had stained the history of the present century'. Fisher began a search of the relevant records for a clergyman with a Turkish connection, and discovered John Moses Eppstein, in the Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1888. Eppstein became a Deacon in 1858 and a priest in 1862. He was a missionary in Turkey between the years 1867-1887. His son William Charles Eppstein was the curate at St Mary's Spital Square Whitechapel 1887-89. Fisher theorized that with Epstein's son working in the district it gave his father the perfect opportunity to acquaint himself with the area using the pretext of visiting his son. When his son moved to a new position in Stowmarket the opportunity to prowl the East End no longer presented itself this believes Fisher explains the sudden cessation of the