Zu Sagar und Cox.
Inspector Robert Sagar (City Police):
…suspicion fell upon a man, who, without a doubt, was the murderer. Identification being impossible, he could not be charged. He was, however, placed in a lunatic asylum and the series of atrocities came to an end.” (The City Press, 7 January
1905)
"Reynolds News" (15 September
1946) printed an extract from Sagar's unpublished, and now untraced, memoirs. Sagar wrote that "We had good reason to suspect a man who worked in Butcher's Row, Aldgate. We watched him carefully. There was no doubt that this man was insane, and after a time his friends thought it advisable to have him removed to a private asylum. After he was removed there were no more Ripper atrocities."
Er sprach aber nicht von einem jüdischen Mann!!! Cox aber. Käme ein Mann wie Levy dennoch in Frage?
City Detective Inspector Henry Cox:
Thomson’s Weekly News, am 1 Dezember
1906- Casebookhttp://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-butchersrow.html
Cox gave additional information about the suspect, such as his physical appearance, his nightly walks, and other habits. Cox said of himself and other fellow detectives: “We had the use of a house opposite the shop of the man we suspected, and disguised, of course, we frequently stopped across in the role of customers.”
Cox also said that the police, while undercover, used to chat with the Jews on the street. These Jews never suspected that Cox and his colleagues were detectives, otherwise they would not have discussed the Ripper murders as openly with them as they did. The police had to explain to the inhabitants that they were inspectors who were monitoring employers of under-aged children working in the sweated tailoring industry. Considering Cox’s story, as well as Sagar’s account of the suspect being taken by friends to an asylum, we might surmise that the suspect observed was a Jew, possibly Anderson’s Polish Jew suspect. Cox recalled that he followed the suspect one night after the suspect left his shop, and
walked towards Leman Street. The suspect may have been attempting to return to his residence or another shop, but perhaps, on realising that he was being followed by Cox, tried to avoid leading Cox and the police to his doorstep. After two aborted attempts to accost street women, albeit with the knowledge that he was being followed (!), the suspect returned “back to the street he had left where he disappeared into his own house [or shop].”
http://wiki.casebook.org/index.php/Henry_CoxHe begins by saying that all the published portrayals of "the criminal whom the police suspected" have been woefully wrong, and in no case has the writer discovered the suspect he is about to describe, who at the time "was looked upon as a man not unlikely to be connected with the crimes". He cannot enter into the theories of his brother officers, but he has no hesitation in dispelling certain claims: that the murderer was known to the police and is incarcerated in "one of His Majesty’s penal settlements", that he "jumped over London Bridge or Blackfriars Bridge" (perhaps a garbled reference to the suicide of Montague Druitt in the Thames) and that he is the inmate of a private asylum. Later in the article he also rejects the idea that the murderer was "an educated man who had suddenly gone mad".
He then says that although
the police had many people under observation at the time of the murders, it was not until Kelly's death that they "seemed to get upon the trail", when investigations made by "several of our cleverest detectives" indicated that a man living in the East End was "not unlikely to have been connected with the crimes" - a formula similar to the one used at the start of the article. Further on he adds that the opinion of most of the officers who were watching the man was that he "had something to do with the crimes". He is convinced that the motive was revenge on womankind, not "a lust for blood", and that the murderer, like his victims, belonged to the "lowest class".
There follows a description of the suspect: "The man we suspected was about five feet six inches in height, with short, black, curly hair, and he had a habit of taking late walks abroad. He occupied several shops in the East End, but from time to time he became insane,
and was forced to spend a portion of his time in an asylum in Surrey."
Cox adds that he was on duty in the street where the suspect had his place of business
for nearly three months after the last murder (presumably meaning that of Kelly). The officers allayed the suspicions of the Jewish inhabitants of the street by telling them that they were factory inspectors investigating the exploitation of children by tailors and capmakers. They had the use of a house opposite the suspect's shop, and often visited it in disguise, posing as customers.
He then relates how he shadowed the man one night. Waiting until the man had left the street before emerging, he followed him to
Leman Street, where he visited a shop which was the abode of known criminals, then to St George's in the East, where he accosted a woman, then to the neighbourhood of "the model lodging-house", where he met another woman and walked with her before pushing her away and returning home.
Am Anfang dieser Begebenheit fiel Cox folgendes auf:
„it suddenly struck me“ im Bezug auf den Gesichtsausdruck des Mannes „evil countenance“, bevor es zur
Leman Street ging,„the abode of a number of criminals“. Dann weiter: „He made his way down zu St George´s in the East.“ „Not far from where the model lodging-house stands he met another woman, and for a considerable distance he walked along with her.“ Bevor Cox eingreifen konnte, stieß die Frau ihn weg. Danach ging es zurück, „in die Straße, die er verlassen hatte, wo er in seinem eigenen Haus verschwand.“ Danach war Cox erledigt „nerve-strung“.
Wieder Leman Street panopticon!!! Die haben doch in dem Boys Club keine Scheiße gebaut???
Könnte Cox den Bruder observiert haben?
Cox comments that the crimes ceased as soon as the madman was put under observation, and that he soon "removed from his usual haunts and gave up his nightly prowls". But then he adds that "not the slightest scrap of evidence" could be found against him, and that the police continued to investigate the crimes long afterwards. He concludes by saying that the crimes are as much a mystery as they were "fifteen years ago", that the theories of amateur detectives are based on nothing more than surmise, and that the murderer will be identified only if he confesses and proves himself guilty, or if he kills again and is caught red-handed. Finally he says that he has no evidence as to whether the murderer is alive or dead.
Cox weiterhin:
„The least slip and another brutal crime might have been perpetrated under our very noses.“
„It was not easy to forget that already one of them had taken place at the very moment when one of our smartest colleagues was passing the top of the dimly lit street.“ !!! (PC Harvey, PC Watkins?, Harvey schied im Juli 1889 aus dem Dienst aus)
Er sprach auch davon, das man aufgrund des Rhythmuses einen Seemann vermutete.
Zum Link der Butcher´s Row noch folgendes, hier bei uns, einst von mir eröffnet,
http://jacktheripper.de/forum/index.php/topic,1238.0.htmlUnd aus dem Casebook Forum, von Chris Scott, fünftes Post:
http://www.casebook.org/forum/messages/4924/5416.htmlDie Butcher´s Row lag in der Aldgate High Street. Es sind dort einmal die Geschäfte in 1888 für die Butcher´s Row angegeben und einmal die Haushaltsvorstände der Aldgate High Street i881. So findet man noch zusätzlich Sachen zum Vergleich wie z.B. No 38 Moses Joel aged 40 Superintendent Jewish Meat Market. Der Statistik halber.
Lestrade.
P.S.: Ich habe ein paar Kleinigkeiten in die vorherigen Post nachträglich eingefügt.
Übrigens:
This man became insane owing to many years indulgence in solitary vices (Macnaughton), Anderson ähnlich und "was a sexual maniac of a virulent type"
He was said to practise self-abuse/ masturbation (Hyam Hyams)
´self-abuse´ (Aaron Kosminski)
Eine Art Selbstmissbrauch oder Selbstbefriedigung, in auffälliger Art und Weise, scheint mir solchen Männern eigen gewesen zu sein. Die Moralvorstellungen damals waren sicherlich anders aber diese Aktivitäten, dürften auch vom Umfeld bemerkt worden sein. Vielleicht spielte dabei auch ein gewisses Maß an selbstverletzendes Verhalten ein Rolle. Ich weiß es nicht.
