Museum given Jack the Ripper names
Jul 13 2006
Handwritten notes in which the police officer who led the hunt for Jack The Ripper names his chief suspect for the gruesome murders have been donated to Scotland Yard.
The notes are contained within a book handed down through the family of Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, which was formally presented to the Metropolitan Police to mark the re-launch of its world-famous crime museum.
In his annotations, Mr Swanson names Polish barber Aaron Kosminski as the suspect in the notorious Ripper case.
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He had made his handwritten notes in a book called The Lighter Side of my Official Life, the memoirs of Dr Robert Anderson, who was Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner at the time of the Ripper investigation.
Mr Swanson made his personal notes in the margin, naming Kosminski and explaining why he believed him to be the killer who stalked east London back in 1888, claiming the lives of at least five women.
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