A 14-line letter found in an old book in Australia that was sold on eBay for £240 appears to have revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper.
A 14-line letter found in an old book in Australia that was sold on eBay for £240 appears to have revealed the identity of Jack the Ripper.
The author of the letter, a Reverend William Patrick Dott, writes in an apparent reference to the notorious murders about an on a woman called Mary by a 'Kosminski', who ran screaming at her with some scissors in the East End.The letter also mentions a 'Tilly', believed to be a reference to Kosminski's sister Matila.
The 1889 letter, which could now be worth up £125,000, appears to describe how one of the prime suspects in the east London killings, Aaron Kosminski, had attacked a woman with a pair of scissorsThe paper was found to have been original, and was not artificially aged. 'It's the most important letter to come to light. It proves Kosminksi was around and could be the murderer.Kosminski was a Polish immigrant who lived with his two brothers and a sister in Greenfield Street, Whitechapel.
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