Who was Jack the Ripper? by Members of H Division Crime Club

Author:Members of H Division Crime Club
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRUE CRIME / General
Publisher: Pen and Sword/Pen and Sword True Crime
Published: 2019-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

George Hutchinson – A Person of Interest

By Bob Hinton

The drama was over, the last scene had been played and the cast were assembled on stage to take their final curtain.

In the front row were the leading lights of the show, Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor, Inspector Abberline and Sir Charles Warren all waiting to give their final bow.

Behind them came the supporting cast, Druitt, Tumblety, Pizer and a thousand others and right at the very back were the stage fillers, the urchin, the chestnut seller, the newspaper boy – these were destined never to see the front row, never to bask in the limelight of fame.

But wait what’s that? Someone from the motley crew in the back is forcing his way to the front, pushing aside the leading man he stands in the spotlight, arms akimbo like a really good Blackadder the Third and in a voice that could only belong to a graduate of the Dick Van Dyke school of how to speak like a cockney utters the immortal lines:

‘Here guvnor I saw something I did – I want to make a statement!’

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you George Hutchinson – a person of interest.

George Hutchinson couldn’t really be described as a minor character in our drama. His sole appearance was when he went to Commercial Street Police Station at 6pm on the evening of 12 November and asked to make a statement about Mary Jane Kelly. Until that moment no one had ever heard of him. This is what he said:

‘About 2am 9th [the morning of the murder] I was coming by Thrawl Street Commercial Street and just before I got to Flower and Dean Street I met the murdered woman Kelly and she said to me, “Hutchinson will you lend me sixpence?” I said, “I can’t I have spent all my money going down to Romford.” She said, “Good morning I must go and find some money.” She went away towards Thrawl Street. A man coming in the opposite direction to Kelly tapped her on the shoulder and said something to her they both burst out laughing. I heard her say “all right” to him and the man said “you will be all right for what I have told you.” He then placed his right hand around her shoulder. He also had a kind of small parcel in his left hand with a kind of strap round it. I stood against the lamp of the Ten Bell [deleted and Queens Head inserted above it] Public House and watched him. They both came past me and the man hung down his head with his hat over his eyes. I stooped down and looked him in the face. He looked at me very [end of first page of statement, signature at bottom of page George Hutchinson] stern. They both went into Dorset Street I followed them. They both stood at the corner of the court for about 3 minutes. He said something to her. She said, “All right my dear come along you will be comfortable.

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