Hallo allesamt!
Hat eigentlich schon mal jemand den Metzger Solomon De Leeuw als möglichen Ripper-Verdächtigen benannt?
Er hatte ja bekanntlich seinen Shop in der Butcher's Row, 59 Aldgate High Street, war zur Zeit der Morde 43-44 Jahre alt, etwa 5 foot 4 inches groß, führte ein verschwenderisches, kriminelles Leben und endete als Verrückter in Stone:
On 19 November 1890, described as a meat salesman of 59 Aldgate High Street, he petitioned for bankruptcy and a receiving order was issued [London Gazette, 21 November 1890]. First meeting, 12 December 1890; public examination, 14 January, 1891; hearing concerning application for discharge, 5 March 1891 [London Gazette, 2 December 1890; Morning Post, 14 January 1891; London Gazette, 6 February 1891]. He had debts of £1,025 and was owed £2,405, from which nothing was expected to be realized. It was later said that he had lost £5,000 through recklessly giving credit. Although he blamed these bad debts for most of the harm done to the business, he had also attended about a hundred race meetings, neglecting his business and - between 1886 and 1889 - losing £2,000 through betting and gambling. In addition, he mentioned liabilities arising from the forced sale by the mortgagee of five freehold houses in the East End. He was also accused of "unjustifiable extravagance in living" and failing to keep proper accounts. In view of all this, his order for discharge was suspended for 18 months [City Press, 17 December 1890, 21 January and 18 March 1891].
At the date of the 1891 census, a butcher, employed, he was living with his wife, children and a servant at 59 Aldgate High Street.
He was fined at the Guildhall for cruelty to 38 sheep, which he had ordered to be confined in Harrow Alley on 15 February 1892 [Times, 29 February 1892; City Press, 2 March 1892].
On 22 April 1895 he was admitted to Bow Road Infirmary from 59 Aldgate High Street [creed register; admission and discharge register]. He was discharged to the City of London Asylum at Stone on 25 April. He was found to be suffering from acute mania, supposed to be caused by business worry. On admission his height was recorded as 5 feet, 4 inches, and his weight as 9 stones, 13 pounds. He was described as "violent, incoherent and destructive of clothing, has well marked delusions regarding his great strength and powers of endurance." He died there on 8 May, the cause of death being "Exhaustion from Mania and diffuse abscess of leg." [City of London Board of Guardians, Lunatic Admissions 1894-5, no 2587; Stone Asylum Male Case Books nos 12, p. 50, and 8, p. 67; Stone Asylum Register of Removals, Discharges and Deaths]
Death registered at Dartford in the second quarter of 1895. Buried at West Ham United Synagogue Cemetery, 28 May 1895. Death notice in the Jewish Chronicle, 31 May 1895.
http://wiki.casebook.org/index.php/Butchers%27_Row_and_its_Residents_-_PeopleInsbesondere interessant erscheinen mir die Strafe wegen Grausamkeit gegenüber Tieren und der Patienteneintrag "violent, incoherent and destructive of clothing, has well marked delusions regarding his great strength and powers of endurance."
Allerdings muss ich einräumen, dass eine Einweisung im Jahr 1895 etwas spät für einen möglichen Ripper-Verdächtigen erscheint.
Trotzdem interessant, wieviele Leute im East End offensichtlich verückt wurden...
MfG, Arthur Dent
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