The Mysterious Murderer-Jack the Ripper

 The Mysterious Murderer-Jack the Ripper (Part 3)

Mary Kelly

   Jack the Ripper’s last and sixth victim was a 35 years old prostitute, Mary Kelly. Quite a large crowd had assembled at No. 13, Miller’s Court in East London, when Inspector Beck and Detective Walter Drew arrived to investigate. They felt that they had come to slaughter house. It looked as if her body had been cut up as a demonstration of the art of dissection. Pieces of flesh were hanging from picture nails on the walls. She had been disemboweled. Her heart and kidney were placed on a table beside her severed breasts. Her face had been thoroughly mutilated and the nose and ears sliced off. Her throat had been slit open. Inspector Beck wrote afterwards, “ What I saw when I pushed back an old coat and peeped through a broken pane of glass into the sordid little room which Mary Kelly called her home, was too harrowing to be described. It remains with me–and always will remain-as the most gruesome memory of the whole of my police career.” The police deduced that Jack the Ripper must have spent at least two hours in cutting Mary Kelly. It took a team of surgeons six hours to sew the body together.

   A letter posted from Liverpool arrived and it suggested that Jack the Ripper was a sailor and was planning to leave the country by ship. The police did not believe that the letter was authentic. The murders stopped after the last one on November 9, as suddenly as they started. There were many theories regarding the identity of the killer. Someone said that he was a surgeon gone mad. Some felt that he was an insane policeman. Another theory was that he was the mad midwife “Jill the Ripper” who was committing these murders under the name of Jack. A write claimed that he was a distinguished surgeon “Dr. Stanely”, who bore a grudge against the prostitutes as his son contracted V.D. because of contacts with them. Some identified him as Duke of Clarence or his friend James Stephen, son of High Court judge. Fingers were pointed towards a Russian and a Pole living in London’s East End.

A letter from Jack the Ripper

   But, the most plausible theory has been put forward by Daniel Farson, who identified the Ripper with one Montague John Druitt. He was a gifted athlete and a graduate from Oxford. He was a failed barrister. He had access to his cousin’s surgery and had learnt to use the surgical instruments by watching him at work. There was evidence to prove that his family and police suspected Druitt of peculiar and frightful activities. He is supposed to have drowned himself when he realized that he was insane. He is supposed to have committed suicide a month after his sixth murder and hence the murders stopped abruptly.

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