Aaron Kosminski
✓ Source-basedstableJewish-Polish barber, "Jack the Ripper"(1865-1919)
Lived 1865 to 1919 · aged 53
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Aaron Kosminski was a Polish barber who is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888.
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Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, North London. Kosminski was an inmate from 1891 to 1894.
The 1894 memorandum written by Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the London Metropolitan Police, naming "Kosminski" as one of three suspects in the Jack the Ripper case. The other two suspects he named were Montague Druitt and Michael Ostrog.
Newspaper broadsheet referring to the Whitechapel murderer as "Leather Apron", September 1888About this person
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1865 to 1919 · aged 53
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