The Escape of Jack the Ripper: The Full Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice - Hardcover
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For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'? The real question that should be answered however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the Autumn of 1888?
Credible Victorian sources including an Old Etonian police chief (Sir Melville Macnaghten), a famous journalist and writer on true crime (George R. Sims), a Conservative MP, (Henry Farquahson) and most incriminatingly, members of the killer's own family knew that 'Jack the Ripper' was Montague John Druitt. He escaped earthly justice by drowning himself in the Thames. This book answers the question of why in 1888 Druitt, a barrister, part-time teacher and accomplished athlete, killed and mutilated women driven into prostitution through social neglect.
Compiled from years of meticulous research, The Escape of Jack the Ripper moves from the suffering of impoverished Whitechapel to genteel London society, picturesque Dorset, the Inner Temple and the anonymity of the private asylums of France and England. The struggle of Druitt's desperate, respectable family to cover up for their dead Montie, whilst preventing any innocent person being hanged for his crimes, is told here. In the Edwardian era, Sir Melville and G.R. Sims ensured that the public understood that the long-deceased Whitechapel fiend was neither poor nor an immigrant, but rather a product of the British establishment.
The photographs include the newly discovered last known image of Druitt.
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About the Author
Jonathan Hainsworth is an Ancient and Modern History teacher of thirty years experience, whose research on 'Jack the Ripper' found that a Metropolitan Police chief had solved the case. Hainsworth wrote a biography of this police chief, Jack the Ripper: Case Solved, 1891.
Christine Ward-Agius is a researcher and artist who spent many years working for an Australian Government program to empower sole parents via education, training and employment. For this book she meticulously researched the Druitt family archives, texts, newspaper articles in the British Library and the records of English public schools.
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'Students of history are aware that an excessive indulgence in vice leads, in certain cases, to a craving for blood... The disease is not as rare as many people imagine. As you walk in the London streets you may, and do, not infrequently jostle against a potential murderer of the so-called Jack the Ripper type. The subject is not a pleasant one, but to those who study the depths of human nature it is intensely interesting.' SIR MELVILLE MACNAGHTEN
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The identity of Jack the Ripper is the most infamous mystery of the Victorian era. Montague Druitt was the original police suspect, but we have never had the full story before, and endless speculation in later books and documentaries: But it was him, after all: The toff in a top hat. Jack the Oxonian. The Victorian equivalent of Ted Bundy: young, handsome, professional and homicidal. Today, the average member of the public has actually never heard of the drowned Druitt; this century he has not been the subject of either a best seller, or movie. The fresh material and sources in the new book are not found in any other publication, including the following USPs: - Druitt was a medical student who dropped out. - As a barrister, Druitt defended a murderer and tried to blame a prostitute for the crime. - A blood-stained Druitt was arrested in Whitechapel but bluffed his way to freedom by pretending he was still studying medicine. - Druitt was placed by his family, albeit briefly, in a private, French asylum but had to flee as the police's dragnet closed. - The Vicar who published parts of the truth in 1899 has been finally identified (Reverend Arthur Du Boulay Hill) - The famous writer and police chief Melville Macnaghten's close pal, George Sims, published a profile of the un-named Druitt as early as 1891: a young toff, slightly built but athletic, who was not a qualified doctor and who had killed himself. This newly discovered source proves, once and for all, that the police chief and the famous writer knew exactly who Montie Druitt was and was not. - the Druitt family tried, fumblingly, to alert the authorities that The Ripper was deceased whilst remaining anonymous. This is the real story of Druitt, the Ripper. How Jack the Ripper escaped (to France) thanks to police errors and an Establishment cover-up. This is the real story of Druitt, the Ripper. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781445698144
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