Jack the Ripper suspects
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A series of murders that took place in the East End of London between August and November 1888 have been attributed to an unidentified assailant nicknamed Jack the Ripper. Since then, the identity of
The cover of the 21 September 1889 issue of Puck magazine, featuring cartoonist Tom Merry's depiction of the unidentified Whitechapel murderer Jack the Ripper.
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Aaron Kosminski
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Aaron Kosminski was a Polish barber who is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.
Jack the Ripper suspects
…whilst records of Cohen began that December. Fido suggested that police officials confused the name Kaminsky with Kosminski, resulting in the wrong man (Aaron Kosminski) coming under suspicion. Cohen exhibited violent, destructive tendencies while at the asylum, and had to be restrained. He died at the asylum in October…
Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, North London. Kosminski was an inmate from 1891 to 1894.
The 1894 memorandum written by Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police, naming "Kosminski" as one of three suspects in the Jack the Ripper case. The other two suspects he named were Montague Druitt and Michael Ostrog.
Newspaper broadsheet referring to the Whitechapel murderer as "Leather Apron", September 1888
Jack the Ripper 1888