Suspect
Montague John Druitt
- Born
- 15 August 1857
- Died
- December 1888, aged about 31
- Record
- Wikidata Q337837 · Wikipedia
Suspect in The Whitechapel Murders
Barrister and schoolmaster named in Macnaghten's 1894 memorandum; drowned in the Thames in December 1888. Never charged.
1888 · Whitechapel and Spitalfields, London · Unsolved
Five women killed in ten weeks in London's East End in 1888, a name invented in a letter, and a killer the police never identified. Read the case.
Dated events
The body of Montague John Druitt, later named as a suspect, is recovered from the Thames at Chiswick.
Sir Melville Macnaghten writes the memorandum naming Druitt, Kosminski and Michael Ostrog.