Jack the Ripper Suspects

Montague John Druitt: John Druitt, born 15th of August, 1857. He became a lawyer in 1880. He was also employed as an assistant schoolmaster at George Valentine’s boarding school. Druitt was the second son of a medical practitioner, William Druitt. William Druitt died in 1885 as a result of a heart attack. He tried to cope with both of his parents dead, but it may of came unbearable which sent him into an unstable state of mind which may have led to the killings of the 5 prostitutes. After the last Jack the Ripper killings, he was found dead, floating in the Thames River. Police believe that he may have been down the bottom of the river for several weeks by stones in his pockets but was not completely proven.

Dr.John Williams: John Williams, born 6th of November, 1840. In 1859 he was apprenticed to surgeons and apothecaries in Swansea before attending University College Hospital London in 1861 to study medicine. He became a well-known doctor and in 1872, married Mary Elisabeth Ann Hughes. Due to his wife’s infertility, he started looking for a cure. It is thought that he stalked other women that he knew from the hospital of similar age of his wife’s. It has been proposed that he killed the women, took out the uteri, took it back to the hospital and studied it. This may have been true as John Williams was a doctor and Jack the Ripper removed many organs with precision.

Dr.Thomas Neil Cream: Thomas Cream, born in May, 1950 in Scotland. His family then moved to Canada where he became a medical student at McGill College. Soon after, he met Flora Elizabeth Brooks who became a victim to an unwanted pregnancy. Cream took it upon himself to perform the abortion which almost killed Brooks. Creams father who was enraged, forced him to marry her and they did on September 11th, 1876. The next day he left for England, where he registered as a graduate student at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London. Cream returned to Canada and began the career as an abortionist. His career was promising until the corpse of Kate Gardener was found in his office with a bottle of chloroform next to her. Luckily, he was not charged with the murder. In August of 1880, his murderous tendencies showed again, killing Julia Faulkner. He was jailed for murder. He got a life sentence but was let out on good behavior in July 1891. He then left for South London 2 days later. After a short break from his murders, Cream poisoned 2 women, Alice Marsh and Emma Shrivel and escaped detection until he was finally found and convicted. He was charged with death and was hanged. Before he was hanged, he uttered the words, I am Jack…. And was immediately assumed as Jack the Ripper.