Your most likely suspect

[Gary Barnett]

Very true! Please observe how criminal anthropoloogy allowed for this thought of equality. But it was not "all humans are alike" but insted "All humans have the ability to rise to the same high standards - however, only very few have, whereas the rest lag behind".

Racism with a hopeful message? Sort of. Yuck!

Fish,

But was this solely about race? Didn't class come in to it also?

Just as the Jews were mercilessly caricatured in the press, so were the Irish and the English 'lower classes' in general.

How did that impact on the behaviour of the average Bobby on the beat?

Gary

[Christer Holmgren]

Fish,

But was this solely about race? Didn't class come in to it also?

Just as the Jews were mercilessly caricatured in the press, so were the Irish and the English 'lower classes' in general.

How did that impact on the behaviour of the average Bobby on the beat?

Gary

It´s interconnected, Gary - there was a belief that poor people were poor because they deserved it. To me, that translates to how the richer and "better" classes supposedly had earnt their privileges on accord of a moral superiority.
It sounds bonkers, I know - but it WAS bonkers back then.

As you will appreciate, this all ends up in social politics sooner or later, and also in the strange fact that the badly payed working classes have always represented the more conservative parts of society. It opens up an extremely wide field of discussion, and I think we have better try to stay on focus, interesting though it would be to carry on along the sidestreams!

In the end, the question you pose is a very good one: how did the - scientifically sanctioned - prejudices affect the average bobby in the street?

[Sam Flynn]

People are, in the main, human, all too human.

- Nietzsche!

- Bless you!

[Andrew Komyati]

The most likely suspects are Joseph Barnett or George Hutchinson. No JTR Murders after Police question them.

[Jonathan Hainsworth]

To Andrew Komyati

According to a number of primary sources, albeit ones that disagree with each other, there were between two and four Jack murders after those men were questioned.

Rose Mylett, Alice McKenzie, the Pinchin Street Torso, and Frances Coles, the latter generally accpected at the time as the final victim.

[Phillip Walton]

The most likely suspects are Joseph Barnett or George Hutchinson. No JTR Murders after Police question them.

And if you take the view that Kelly was not a ripper victim but murdered by Barnett and/or Hutchinson and made to look like a ripper killing. There is the possibility that the ripper was out of the scene shortly after the double event, either dead or incarcerated. It would be an interesting exercise to study more closely any suspect who was dismissed due to his having an alibi for that particular murder.

[Tracy Ianson]

And if you take the view that Kelly was not a ripper victim but murdered by Barnett and/or Hutchinson and made to look like a ripper killing. There is the possibility that the ripper was out of the scene shortly after the double event, either dead or incarcerated. It would be an interesting exercise to study more closely any suspect who was dismissed due to his having an alibi for that particular murder.

If you take Mary Kelly away as Ripper victim that would mean that there was no more killings after Joseph Hyam Levy saw Jtr with Catharine Eddowes, quite interesting when you link his cousin as a viable suspect

Tracy

[Sam Flynn]

The most likely suspects are Joseph Barnett or George Hutchinson. No JTR Murders after Police question them.

On that basis, I'm voting for Mary Ann Cox

[Adam Went]

I still think George Chapman / Severin Klosowski is one of the better suspects, but Tracy's excellent research has swayed me more towards Jacob Levy in recent times. IMO though it's unlikely that either Barnett or Hutchinson were responsible for Kelly's murder - it would be interesting to know more about Hutchinson, one of the more bizarre witnesses.

Cheers,
Adam.

[Tracy Ianson]

I still think George Chapman / Severin Klosowski is one of the better suspects, but Tracy's excellent research has swayed me more towards Jacob Levy in recent times. IMO though it's unlikely that either Barnett or Hutchinson were responsible for Kelly's murder - it would be interesting to know more about Hutchinson, one of the more bizarre witnesses.

Cheers,
Adam.

Thanks Adam!!! (Cheques in the post )

[Paul Sullivan]

Thanks Adam!!! (Cheques in the post )

On that basis, I'm voting for Mary Ann Cox

Na, I favour Jacob Levy 100% as Jack...so much adds up with him.

[Tracy Ianson]

Hi Paul

Na, I favour Jacob Levy 100% as Jack...so much adds up with him.

I agree (obviously ) Can we say 100% certainty that he was Jtr, no, but I think he is stronger than most of the other suspects out there without a doubt.

[Harry Drake]

Same here from me for William Hardiman-just my best of a bad lot. He drank poison in late 1905 (age 33) and the inquest ruled his death a suicide.

Is that because you had a dream that the Ripper was a teenage boy?

Hello All. If forced at gun point to decide, I'd say Levy was the least bad of a colourless lot.

Cheers.
LC

Careful, Lynn. Next thing you know, you'll be believing in one killer.

Anyway, my top suspects would be:

1. 'Joe Bloggs'
2. William Bury
3. Jacob Levy

[Lynn Cates]

low order of probability

Hello Harry. Thanks.

"Careful, Lynn. Next thing you know, you'll be believing in one killer."

Um, no chance of that.

Cheers.
LC