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Whitechapel and Stepney Lunatic registers + Colney Hatch
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Whitechapel and Stepney Lunatic registers + Colney Hatch
Author: Martin Fido
Saturday, 03 August 2002 - 08:15 am |        | I promised Scott some time back I would go over my surviving old notebooks and lay out for all to see the details I have on pauper lunatics from the East End and City, 1888-1890. I seem to have spread my temporal net wider than I remembered, though not in the vital Colney Hatch Men's Day Book which would have revealed Kosminski, as that stopped in 1890.
Bearing in mind I did all this work 16 or 17 years ago, I trust everyone will forgive me for not remembering any more clear details of what I was driving at than I have put in the CAPITALIZED introductions to each notebook I have found. In general, though, I was hunting for a Jewish lunatic called Kosminsky (or something very like it) from the Whitechapel/Spitalfields/City of London area, incarcerated at a time which would explain the termination of the murders. The search broadened as it seemed (wrongly) there was no such lunatic.
NB - I see that there are a lot of question marks in the following which I didn't put in. This is some computer-mysterious translation of brakets or dashes that I had inthe original and that have undergone transmogrification in being copied and pasted. Please forgive my finding life too short to go through this eliminating them.
It will be seen that, apart from Colney Hatch, the details are all of lunatics or Jewish patients under Whitechapel/Stepney Boards of Guardians. This is because the Asylum registers, except for Colney Hatch, were kept at different depositaries outside central London, and in all cases (Banstead, Leavesden, Stone, Cane Hill, Claybury) I had curators/ librarians kindly hold the relevant 1888-1890 registers in front of them, and read out to me over the telephone all admissions from Whitechapel/Stepney; all recorded ?Hebrew? entries; and any other names I had noted on the following lists from my notebooks. In this way I was able to assure myself of the movements and (as far as one could tell from their case notes) innocence of the known Jewish lunatics incarcerated at the time.
FROM GREEN NOTEBOOK INCLUDING A GOOD DEAL OF BODYSNATCHERS MATERIAL (THE BOOK I WROTE ON COMPLETING CRIMES, DETECTION & DEATH), SO THIS NOTEBOOK SEEMS TO HAVE VERY LATE RIPPER SEARCHES FROM THE LATTER PART OF MY WORK ? CITY OF LONDON WHICH I ONLY CHECKED AFTER HAVING WORKED THROUGH THE EAST END; DETAILS FROM WHITECHAPEL POSSIBLY RELATING TO MACNAGHTEN?S DATING OF THE JEWISH SUSPECT?S INCARCERATION; COLNEY HATCH RECORDS WHICH I OBTAINED VERY LATE.
City of London
Frederick Kretch, b.1844, no known address. DangeRous to others. Incarcerated Stone, 3 Jan 1888; died 12 June 1888.
Nathan Leonard Kolkosk, aet.48. Admitted to Stone from City of London infirmary, 25 February 1896. Discharged from Stone to City of London infirmary, , 11 June 1898. Admitted to Willesden, June 1899.
Poplar Lunatics
Lewis G. Isaacs, of 8 Addington Road, Bow. (9 months residence). Born 1874. Admitted Colney Hatch, 13.2.1892. Transferred to leavesden, 31.5.1892. Father, Samuel Isaacs of above address.
Whitechapel Infirmary, Admissions and Discharges 1889-90:
(Asylum discharges and Hebrew admissions during March 1889)
Simon Gilpsbeam, aet 19. Single. Slipper-maker, 1 Heneage Street. The itch. 1 week settlement. Adm. March 5; disch 18th.
Gabriel Rosenberg, aet. 25. 1 Heneage Street. Married. Tailor. Skin eruption. 9 weeks settlement. Adm. 7th; disch. 13th.
Barnett Levy, aet 84. 12 Thrawl Street.Widower. Hawker. Rheumatism. 2 months settlement. Adm 7th, disch 18th. And again with hernia, 19th-25th. And again 31st.
Edward Dicks, aet. 39. Single. Carman. 12 Prince?s Street. C of E. adm. 7th March with ulcerated leg. Discharged to Banstead, 15th.
William Christy Halestrap, aet 52. Cab proprietor. 97 Backchurch Lane. Adm insane, 7 Match. Disch to Banstead 15th.
Abraham Woodwick, aet 57. 16 Great Garden Street. Shoemaker. Widower. Adm 12 March with sprained ankle. Disch. 8 April.
John Thomas Milnes, aet.46. C of E. Basket maker. 10 Artillery Street. Insane. Adm. 20th March. Disch to Banstead 3 March 1890.
Lewis Hahn aet 37. RC. Cabinet maker, married. 10 Cotton street. Adm insane 20 March. Disch 18th April.
Louis Young, aet 31. Stickmaker. Single. 1 Heneage Street. Adm with bronchitis 22 March; disch 13 April. [my note: very unhealthy address ? at least 3 Gentiles from there, too!]
Solomon Goldstein aet 32. Hawker. Married. 17 Gun Street. Adm with pthisis 26 March. Disch 13 April.
Isaiah Doitsch, aet 30. Single. Clerk. 99 Brunswick Bdgs. Admitted insane, 7.30pm, 27 March. Died 27 April. [I have marked this for special attention].
Israel Pearl, aet 16. Fur cutter. 14 Plough street. Admitted insane, 5.25 pm, March 28th. Disch to Colney Hatch, 6 April. [Marked for special attention]
Michael Kidney, aet 36. From workhouse with syphilis. 11 June ? 24th.
[now recorded aet] 40, from 12 Thrawl Street, with lumbago, 17 Aug-30 September.
Aet 40. From 11 Thrawl Street with dyspepsia. 11-15 October.
End of Special March 1889 entries (followed up because of Macnaghten)
Solomon Golinski, certified permanently for Leavesden, 13 March 1899. Data in Whitechapel Register of lunatics in workhouse, 1898-9. Was there three days before certification.
COLNEY HATCH ASYLUM 1888
Nathan Pedaver. Admitted 6 November, Polish Jew. Tailor?s machinist. Aet 30. Father, Isaac, lived 6 Boot St Bdgs, Brick Lane. Rambling talk about rich uncle in USA (was real: brother confirmed) and claimed 40 pianos being sent to him and he would be very rich. Feared false police charges. By Jan recovering. Attributed his breakdown to anxiety at being accused of being Jack the Ripper. Dicharged, cured, February.
Albert William Alexander. Aet 16. Admitted 24 November. Thought he was Jack the Ripper (occasionally). Very deranged, but not dangerous. Kept in at least 10 years.
Walter John Matthews, aet 38. Plumber, married, of 13 De Beauvoir Crescent, Islington. Admitted 27 December. Said he was Jack the Ripper and Jesus Christ. Dangerous, violent and morose. Died in asylum, 1893.
David Cohen, aet 23. Tailor, single. Admitted 21.12.1888. Any relatives unknown. Very violent and abusive to other patients. Brought in by police to Whitechapel Infirmary. They found him wandering and incoherent. Had to be jkept separate from other patients, frequently under restraint. Dirty. Refused and spat out food. Violent. Brought in under restraint. Force-fed by tube. Mischievous and spiteful. Died, exhaustion of mania, 20 October 1889.
John Baptiste Siri ? noted because although age given as 38, also described as ?a young Italian musician?. And owned a pipe he thought had unusual powers and it would tell him who Jack the Ripper was).
Lewis Mayhew of Chelsea, aet 28. Admitted 9 Feb 1889, feared he was going to be taken up as Jack the Ripper.
On name errors, noted Fitzroy Bach, in Colney Hatch under that name in 1889. Then they found he had been in previously in 1872 as William Destin; went into Three Counties as Charles Latinsoudiere in 1890. In Birmingham as Wiliam Douglas in 1891. In Denbigh as William de Brabazon in 1899. All this seems to have been picked up initially when Cane Hill photographed him in 1892 and circulated his pic.
Israel Pearl, aet 16, from Plough Street, Spitalfields. Breakdown following a belief that a socialist at his workplace wanted to blow him up with gunpowder.
Hyam Hyams, aet 34. Admitted 15th April 1889. Violent and dangerous (esp to wife). Hurt mother with a chopper when attacking wife. Epileptic and irritable after fits. Drink. Disch August, but continued later as patient 10757. [Given careful consideration as violent lunatic from Houndsditch going into asylum around time Macnaghten said the suspect Kosminski did].
Careless record keeping on age noted again with George Catell, admitted in April 89 with age given as 43, though he insisted he was only 34, and the doctor thought this was probably true. But records not altered.
Thomas Murray aet 30 of Devon Road, Poplar. Admitted 13 June 1889. C of E. Foreman bottler. Violent and dangerous. Thought neighbours were calling him Jack the Ripper.
Charles Simmons. 64 in 88; 65 in 89. In from Oct 88-Feb 89. Occupation given as carpenter. Readmitted June 1890, occupation now given as butcher. On first admission, thought he had the Whitechapel murderer in his care.
Hyam Hyams again. Back to Stone charged with stabbing wife, soon after release from first time in. Transferred to Colney Hatch, Jan 1890. Very frequent epileptic fits, and then very violent and filthy. Otherwise quiet, but bitter against his wife. Fits were cyclical; he tended to be well for about a month, then ?off? for a fortnight. Lived in New Street, Houndsditch. Suspected medical officers of having affection for his wife, and asked for a knife to kill himself. But when he obtained a sharpened steel and cut MP iin neck, attacking from behind, failed to injure him seriously. ?A crafty and dangerous maniac?.
FROM EXTREMELY DAMAGED SMALL SPIRAL NOTEBOOK WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE PRELIMINARY ENTRIES NOTED FROM WHITECHAPEL WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY, BUT MOST OF EARLY PAGES MISSING. I SUSPECT THESE WOULD HAVE CONTAINED ENTRIES ON NATHAN KAMINSKY AND ANNIE CHAPMAN.
NB Colney Hatch had Abraham Cohen, glassworker of 3 Paternoster Row, 38 yrs old, married. Admitted Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary 7 Oct 1887 for debility and sent to Colney Hatch 12 Oct.
David Cohen ? 23 ? [admitted from] PC 91H, Thames Police Court ? Single ? Tailor ? [Cause of admission] Infirm ? Hebrew ? [Admitted by ordser of] MO.- [Time of admission] 5.30pm ? Sent to ward BG ? [Length of Settlement] ? Unknown ? [Sent to Colney Hatch 21-12-88]. NB ? The index wrongly places this admission as 30th October.
Rose Cohen, 39, wife of Abraham, Tailor. Admitted to Infirmary with Haemoplegia, 29.10.88 from 3 great Garden Street. 8 months settlement. Sent on to Colney Hatch, 13.11.88.
Kaminsky treated Ward BB ? full of skin eruptions, ulcers, piles, eczema, venereal diseases (& swelled testes, itch, epilepsy, inflamed foot). Looks like out patient equivalent.
GREEN NOTEBOOK WITH WENSLEY MEMOIRS ETC. POSSIBLY THE FIRST OR SECOND ONE USED ON RIPPER. FULL, WITH NOTES AND QUOTES FROM BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS ON THE RIPPER; NO OTHER MATERIAL FOR MY LATER BOOKS ANYWHERE. SOME FAIRLY DETAILED MATERIAL FROM WHITECHAPEL ? AND WHERE ELSE? THERE SEEM TO BE NON-COMMITTAL OR STATED ?NOTHING? ENTRIES INDICATING LOOKING AT QUARTERLY RETURNS OF LUNATICS IN CARE OF EAST END PARISHES. NB ?Adjudicated? in some of these entries points to decisions being made as to which Board of Guardians, if any, held responsibility for the patient in question. The fact that challenges were made ? presumably to save parish funds - suggests the probability that Aaron Kozminski?s family were deemed capable of supporting him without help from the rates.
Sept 24th 1895 ? Claybury Asylum received ?Jim the Polisher? (Bethnal Green Book). Seen ? City of London Bethnal Green ? 1888-95.
[Don?t ask me what that?s all about!]
Nathan Karnsky. Born 1872. Admitted Colney Hatch 21 december 1899. Died there 9 July 1908. (In Bethnal Green Book). Name given as Karonsky in workhouse records. [Various records and transfers noted, mainly showing that the authorities seem to have made a different guess at his age every time they noted him!]
Edw Karniskio ? apparently b. c.1862. Admitted Claybury (for Hackney) 28.9.93. N-o-k. unknown.
WHITECHAPEL INFIRMARY
Moses Kosseman ? discharged 11.3.89. folio 360.
Herman Kremp ? discharged 9.3.89. Died of bronchitis. Folio 4300X718.
Samuel Kleine disch 17.5.89 folio 743
Siegfried Karpelles ? disch 8.6.89 folio 743
Frederick Kijop (?) disch. 1.3.90 folio 4600
Folio w.436 Andrew Anderson, Age 25. from Sailors? Home. Single. Seaman. Admission for mania. 2 years settlement. Married. Hebrew. Discharged 12.6.89 to Leavesden Asylum.
F.521 Hyam Hyams. Age 34. Adm from 4 Bell Court. General dealer. Married. Weak mind. Hebrew. Disch 15.4.89 to Colney Hatch.
F.743 Siegfried Karpelles ? Age 20. Adm from 12 thrawl Street. Single. Salesman. Febrile. Hebrew. Three weeks. Disch. 8.5.89
f.939 Charles Simmons. Age 65 of 26 Newnham Street. Widower. Butcher. Mental aberration. 3 months. To Colney Hatch 18.6.89.
f2082 Morris Levin. Age 33. 101 Turner Street. Tailor. Insanity. Hebrew. To Banstead Asylum.
F2316 Isaac De Fries. Age 22. 18 Mile End Road. London Hospital. Fish Porter. Insane. Hebrew. To Colney Hatch, 21.9.89
F2434 Israel Shatzki. Age 33. PC 303H. Found in Tewson?s Court. Married. Furrier. Insane. Hebrew. Disch 22.11.89
FF1168 Nathan Kaminsky. Age 23. 15 Black lion Yard. Single. Bootmaker. Adm for syphilis. Sat Marsh 24th 1888 5.30pm. Hebrew. 12 mths settlement. Disch 12.5.88
STEPNEY LUNATICS. Stepney M.E.O.T. ? [Mile End Old Town] Lunatics Register Sep 1892-97. [A note shows that I also looked through Mile End Old Town Creed Book as back-up ? although, like Charles Nevin, I missed the entry for Kosminski?s quick passage through it as his name was so ill-written/ ill-spelled as to mislead me].
Aaron Sanders. D.Colney Hatch, 10 Oct 1902. Admitted 27 October 1892. Supposed 9 days insane. Father, Moses Sanders, 92 Mile End Road.
Lewis Benjamin, alias Abraham Jacobs. (Brother, Joseph Benjamin, 10 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel). Adjudicated to Stepney from Cardiff Union when in Glamorgan County Asylum, 4.1.92. Previously Winson Green Asylum, Birmingham from 1.12.91. Escaped 8.10.92. Discharged 22.10.92. D.o.b. unknown. *See also below [i.e. his reincarceration recorded under Whitechapel 1897].
Morris Schalkind. B.1871. No relations known. Colney Hatch. 1.12.93
Abraham Hochmanovich or Mouchmonour. Born 1867. Father, Noah Mouchmonour, 88 Chambers Street, Leman Street. Transferred from Leavesden to Colney Hatch, 1.12.94. Died 19.4.07.
Isaac Abrahams, b.1847. Wife, Rachael A. of Calverley Street, Mile End. Adm Colney Hatch, 4.9.85. Died 14.2.97
Louis Rozinski, b.1865. Wife, Annie R. 16 Baker Street, Commercial Road. Adm Colney Hatch 22.11.95. Disch 14.5.97
Edward Cohen, b.1855, wife Leah C, 114 Wentworth Street, Vornwall St E. Adm Colney Hatch 23.6.97. Adjudicated to Whitechapel Board, 18.3.98
Whitechapel, 1897
Nacher Marks sent to Colney Hatch, July 27
Isaac Schmiloski, referred by police, 30.9.97. Adm Colney Hatch, 7.8.97
Lewis Benjamin - Police brought in October 19, 1898. Doctors said sane. Wynne Baxter (now JP) sent him to General Ward.
Jacob Weinberg ? to Colney Hatch, Nov 3 1898.
Solomon Golinski ? certified for permanent detention, Leavesden, 13.3.89. [notes, underlinings, etc, show that I made huge attempts to trace more details about this man ? why, I can?t remember. But suspect it may be because the ?inski? end to his name and the permanent committal make me wonder?]
Charles George Ludwig, brought to Whitechapel by police as lunatic, 11 March 1897. Discharged as fit, 27 March. [My added note says ?Register of Lunatics in Whitechapel Workhouse? ? I don?t know why. Remember Ludwig being held as a suspect early in the Ripper case?]
Hyman Brodski to Colney Hatch 14.4.97
STEPNEY REGISTER OF WHITECHAPEL LUNATICS IN ASYLUMS, 1879-1899. [My added note highlights as ?MOST IMPORTANT LIST?. The official listing of Whitechapel and Mile End Old Town as subdivisions of Stepney casts possible light on Swanson?s reference to Kosminski going to Stepney Workhouse. Kosminski passed through Mile End Old Town; Cohen through Whitechapel. I?d have to see the register again to understand why this list is in alphabetical and not chronological order]
David Cohen, aet 23, from 86 Leman Street. Relatives unknown. Adm Dec 21 88. Sent to Colney Hatch. Died Oct 20 89.
Isaac Cohen, aet 31. Adm from 30 Dorset Street, 12.12.90. Relatives unbknown. Died 21.6.91
George Cordell, age 25, adm from 104 Lolesworth Bdgs. Father George C. of same address. Discharge on Dec 11 1891 - struck out - ? (Admitted Banstead 12.11.88)
Thomas Debney, 35 of Flower & Dean, adm Colney Hatch 17.10.90. Transferred to Leavesden 19.10.96
Thomas Donoghue, age 38 of 90 Old Montague St (wife Elizabeth) admitted Banstead, Nov 16, 1888. Died feb 1891.
Hyam Hyams, age 34, adm Colney Hatch from 4 Bell Court, Apr 1889. Disch August 1889.
William Christy Halestrap, age 52, of 97 Backchurch Lane, to Banstead, March 1889.
Morris Jacobs, age 30. Address & relatives unknown. Admitted Colney Hatch, 10 August 1892. Transferred Leavesden, May 94.
Charles Jenkins, age 42, of 15 Dorset Street. No friends. Adm. Cabe Hill, june 92.
Marks Kavinsky, age 22. Address and relatives unknown. To Colney Hatch, May 1899.
Emmanuel Koch. Age 48 of 41 Commercial Road, no friends. Adm Cane Hill, May 92. Transferred Gloucester County Assylum Nov 94. Died March 96.
[My note then reads ?No Kosminski or similar from Whitechapel throughout?. This indicates that Aaron Kosminski was never a charge on the parish to be recorded in Stepney?s register of lunatics the Board of Guardians had in care. Presumably, therefore, his family contributed to his maintenance throughout, which seems rather remarkable]
Isaac Nathan of 25 Sandys Row (father, same name and address), age 24 in 1885, in Colney Hatch, Dec 85 ? Nov 86, when discharged.
Israel Pearl, age 16 0f 14 Plough Street (faher, Simon) adm Colney Hatch, Apr 6, 89. Disch Aug 30, 89
John Francis Shackleton of 55 Flower & Dean (father Edw of 25 Risinghill St, Pentonville Rd) age 32. Adm Banstead 28.12.88. Died 1.9.89.
George Smith, age 21. Crimnal lunatic. Refused to give next of kin. Adm Banstead 25.11.92. Died 10.4.94.
Unknown male from 12 Princelet Street. Adm Colney Hatch 10.12.95, died 14.1.96. Age c.23.
Solomon White ? no details. Adm City Asylum, Stone, feb 23 1889. Transferred Bandstead Sep 89.
The following extracts from my notebooks, as promised some time back to Scott, may be of use to some readers.
It will be seen that, apart from Colney Hatch, the details are all of lunatics or Jewish patients under Whitechapel/Stepney Boards of Guardians. This is because the Asylum registers, except for Colney Hatch, were kept at different depositaries outside central London, and in all cases (Banstead, Leavesden, Stone, Cane Hill, Claybury) I had curators/ librarians kindly hold the relevant 1888-1890 registers in front of them, and read out to me over the telephone all admissions from Whitechapel/Stepney; all recorded ?Hebrew? entries; and any other names I had noted on the following lists from my notebooks. In this way I was able to assure myself of the movements and (as far as one could tell from their case notes) innocence of the known Jewish lunatics incarcerated at the time.
FROM GREEN NOTEBOOK INCLUDING A GOOD DEAL OF BODYSNATCHERS MATERIAL (THE BOOK I WROTE ON COMPLETING CRIMES, DETECTION & DEATH), SO THIS NOTEBOOK SEEMS TO HAVE LATE RIPPER SEARCHES FROM THE LATTER PART OF MY WORK ? CITY OF LONDON WHICH I ONLY CHECKED AFTER HAVING WORKED THROUGH THE EAST END; DETAILS FROM WHITECHAPEL POSSIBLY RELATING TO MACNAGHTEN?S DATING OF THE JEWISH SUSPECT?S INCARCERATION; COLNEY HATCH RECORDS WHICH I OBTAINED VERY LATE.
City of London
Frederick Kretch, b.1844, no known address. DangeRous to others. Incarcerated Stone, 3 Jan 1888; died 12 June 1888.
Nathan Leonard Kolkosk, aet.48. Admitted to Stone from City of London infirmary, 25 February 1896. Discharged from Stone to City of London infirmary, , 11 June 1898. Admitted to Willesden, June 1899.
Poplar Lunatics
Lewis G. Isaacs, of 8 Addington Road, Bow. (9 months residence). Born 1874. Admitted Colney Hatch, 13.2.1892. Transferred to leavesden, 31.5.1892. Father, Samuel Isaacs of above address.
Whitechapel Infirmary, Admissions and Discharges 1889-90:
(Asylum discharges and Hebrew admissions during March 1889)
Simon Gilpsbeam, aet 19. Single. Slipper-maker, 1 Heneage Street. The itch. 1 week settlement. Adm. March 5; disch 18th.
Gabriel Rosenberg, aet. 25. 1 Heneage Street. Married. Tailor. Skin eruption. 9 weeks settlement. Adm. 7th; disch. 13th.
Barnett Levy, aet 84. 12 Thrawl Street.Widower. Hawker. Rheumatism. 2 months settlement. Adm 7th, disch 18th. And again with hernia, 19th-25th. And again 31st.
Edward Dicks, aet. 39. Single. Carman. 12 Prince?s Street. C of E. adm. 7th March with ulcerated leg. Discharged to Banstead, 15th.
William Christy Halestrap, aet 52. Cab proprietor. 97 Backchurch Lane. Adm insane, 7 Match. Disch to Banstead 15th.
Abraham Woodwick, aet 57. 16 Great Garden Street. Shoemaker. Widower. Adm 12 March with sprained ankle. Disch. 8 April.
John Thomas Milnes, aet.46. C of E. Basket maker. 10 Artillery Street. Insane. Adm. 20th March. Disch to Banstead 3 March 1890.
Lewis Hahn aet 37. RC. Cabinet maker, married. 10 Cotton street. Adm insane 20 March. Disch 18th April.
Louis Young, aet 31. Stickmaker. Single. 1 Heneage Street. Adm with bronchitis 22 March; disch 13 April. [my note: very unhealthy address ? at least 3 Gentiles from there, too!]
Solomon Goldstein aet 32. Hawker. Married. 17 Gun Street. Adm with pthisis 26 March. Disch 13 April.
Isaiah Doitsch, aet 30. Single. Clerk. 99 Brunswick Bdgs. Admitted insane, 7.30pm, 27 March. Died 27 April. [I have marked this for special attention].
Israel Pearl, aet 16. Fur cutter. 14 Plough street. Admitted insane, 5.25 pm, March 28th. Disch to Colney Hatch, 6 April. [Marked for special attention]
Michael Kidney, aet 36. From workhouse with syphilis. 11 June ? 24th.
[now recorded aet] 40, from 12 Thrawl Street, with lumbago, 17 Aug-30 September.
Aet 40. From 11 Thrawl Street with dyspepsia. 11-15 October.
End of Special March 1889 entries (followed up because of Macnaghten)
Solomon Golinski, certified permanently for Leavesden, 13 March 1899. Data in Whitechapel Register of lunatics in workhouse, 1898-9. Was there three days before certification.
COLNET HATCH ASYLUM 1888
Nathan Pedaver. Admitted 6 November, Polish Jew. Tailor?s machinist. Aet 30. Father, Isaac, lived 6 Boot St Bdgs, Brick Lane. Rambling talk about rich uncle in USA (was real: brother confirmed) and claimed 40 pianos being sent to him and he would be very rich. Feared false police charges. By Jan recovering. Attributed his breakdown to anxiety at being accused of being Jack the Ripper. Dicharged, cured, February.
Albert William Alexander. Aet 16. Admitted 24 November. Thought he was Jack the Ripper (occasionally). Very deranged, but not dangerous. Kept in at least 10 years.
Walter John Matthews, aet 38. Plumber, married, of 13 De Beauvoir Crescent, Islington. Admitted 27 December. Said he was Jack the Ripper and Jesus Christ. Dangerous, violent and morose. Died in asylum, 1893.
David Cohen, aet 23. Tailor, single. Admitted 21.12.1888. Any relatives unknown. Very violent and abusive to other patients. Brought in by police to Whitechapel Infirmary. They found him wandering and incoherent. Had to be jkept separate from other patients, frequently under restraint. Dirty. Refused and spat out food. Violent. Brought in under restraint. Force-fed by tube. Mischievous and spiteful. Died, exhaustion of mania, 20 October 1889.
John Baptiste Siri ? noted because although age given as 38, also described as ?a young Italian musician?. And owned a pipe he thought had unusual powers and it would tell him who Jack the Ripper was).
Lewis Mayhew of Chelsea, aet 28. Admitted 9 Feb 1889, feared he was going to be taken up as Jack the Ripper.
On name errors, noted Fitzroy Bach, in Colney Hatch under that name in 1889. Then they found he had been in previously in 1872 as William Destin; went into Three Counties as Charles Latinsoudiere in 1890. In Birmingham as Wiliam Douglas in 1891. In Denbigh as William de Brabazon in 1899. All this seems to have been picked up initially when Cane Hill photographed him in 1892 and circulated his pic.
Israel Pearl, aet 16, from Plough Street, Spitalfields. Breakdown following a belief that a socialist at his workplace wanted to blow him up with gunpowder.
Hyam Hyams, aet 34. Admitted 15th April 1889. Violent and dangerous (esp to wife). Hurt mother with a chopper when attacking wife. Epileptic and irritable after fits. Drink. Disch August, but continued later as patient 10757. [Given careful consideration as violent lunatic from Houndsditch going into asylum around time Macnaghten said the suspect Kosminski did].
Careless record keeping on age noted again with George Catell, admitted in April 89 with age given as 43, though he insisted he was only 34, and the doctor thought this was probably true. But records not altered.
Thomas Murray aet 30 of Devon Road, Poplar. Admitted 13 June 1889. C of E. Foreman bottler. Violent and dangerous. Thought neighbours were calling him Jack the Ripper.
Charles Simmons. 64 in 88; 65 in 89. In from Oct 88-Feb 89. Occupation given as carpenter. Readmitted June 1890, occupation now given as butcher. On first admission, thought he had the Whitechapel murderer in his care.
Hyam Hyams again. Back to Stone charged with stabbing wife, soon after release from first time in. Transferred to Colney Hatch, Jan 1890. Very frequent epileptic fits, and then very violent and filthy. Otherwise quiet, but bitter against his wife. Fits were cyclical; he tended to be well for about a month, then ?off? for a fortnight. Lived in New Street, Houndsditch. Suspected medical officers of having affection for his wife, and asked for a knife to kill himself. But when he obtained a sharpened steel and cut MP iin neck, attacking from behind, failed to injure him seriously. ?A crafty and dangerous maniac?.
FROM EXTREMELY DAMAGED SMALL SPIRAL NOTEBOOK WHICH SEEMS TO HAVE PRELIMINARY ENTRIES NOTED FROM WHITECHAPEL WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY, BUT MOST OF EARLY PAGES MISSING. I SUSPECT THESE WOULD HAVE CONTAINED ENTRIES ON NATHAN KAMINSKY AND ANNIE CHAPMAN.
NB Colney Hatch had Abraham Cohen, glassworker of 3 Paternoster Row, 38 yrs old, married. Admitted Whitechapel Workhouse Infirmary 7 Oct 1887 for debility and sent to Colney Hatch 12 Oct.
David Cohen ? 23 ? [admitted from] PC 91H, Thames Police Court ? Single ? Tailor ? [Cause of admission] Infirm ? Hebrew ? [Admitted by ordser of] MO.- [Time of admission] 5.30pm ? Sent to ward BG ? [Length of Settlement] ? Unknown ? [Sent to Colney Hatch 21-12-88]. NB ? The index wrongly places this admission as 30th October.
Rose Cohen, 39, wife of Abraham, Tailor. Admitted to Infirmary with Haemoplegia, 29.10.88 from 3 great Garden Street. 8 months settlement. Sent on to Colney Hatch, 13.11.88.
Kaminsky treated Ward BB ? full of skin eruptions, ulcers, piles, eczema, venereal diseases (& swelled testes, itch, epilepsy, inflamed foot). Looks like out patient equivalent.
GREEN NOTEBOOK WITH WENSLEY MEMOIRS ETC. POSSIBLYTHE FIRST OR SECOND ONE USED ON RIPPER. FULL, WITH NOTES AND QUOTES FROM BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS ON THE RIPPER; NO OTHER MATERIAL FOR MY LATER BOOKS ANYWHERE. SOME FAIRLY DETAILED MATERIAL FROM WHITECHAPEL ? AND WHERE ELSE? THERE SEEM TO BE NON-COMMITTAL OR STATED ?NOTHING? ENTRIES INDICATING LOOKING AT QUARTERLY RETURNS OF LUNATICS IN CARE OF EAST END PARISHES. NB ?Adjudicated? in some of these entries points to decisions being made as to which Board of Guardians, if any, held responsibility for the patient in question. The fact that challenges were made ? presumably to save parish funds - suggests the probability that Aaron Kozminski?s family were deemed capable of supporting him without help from the rates.
Sept 24th 1895 ? Claybury Asylum received ?Jim the Polisher? (Bethnal Green Book). Seen ? City of London Bethnal Green ? 1888-95.
[Don?t ask me what that?s all about!]
Nathan Karnsky. Born 1872. Admitted Colney Hatch 21 december 1899. Died there 9 July 1908. (In Bethnal Green Book). Name given as Karonsky in workhouse records. [Various records and transfers noted, mainly showing that the authorities seem to have made a different guess at his age every time they noted him!]
Edw Karniskio ? apparently b. c.1862. Admitted Claybury (for Hackney) 28.9.93. N-o-k. unknown.
WHITECHAPEL INFIRMARY
Moses Kosseman ? discharged 11.3.89. folio 360.
Herman Kremp ? discharged 9.3.89. Died of bronchitis. Folio 4300X718.
Samuel Kleine disch 17.5.89 folio 743
Siegfried Karpelles ? disch 8.6.89 folio 743
Frederick Kijop (?) disch. 1.3.90 folio 4600
Folio w.436 Andrew Anderson, Age 25. from Sailors? Home. Single. Seaman. Admission for mania. 2 years settlement. Married. Hebrew. Discharged 12.6.89 to Leavesden Asylum.
F.521 Hyam Hyams. Age 34. Adm from 4 Bell Court. General dealer. Married. Weak mind. Hebrew. Disch 15.4.89 to Colney Hatch.
F.743 Siegfried Karpelles ? Age 20. Adm from 12 thrawl Street. Single. Salesman. Febrile. Hebrew. Three weeks. Disch. 8.5.89
f.939 Charles Simmons. Age 65 of 26 Newnham Street. Widower. Butcher. Mental aberration. 3 months. To Colney Hatch 18.6.89.
f2082 Morris Levin. Age 33. 101 Turner Street. Tailor. Insanity. Hebrew. To Banstead Asylum.
F2316 Isaac De Fries. Age 22. 18 Mile End Road. London Hospital. Fish Porter. Insane. Hebrew. To Colney Hatch, 21.9.89
F2434 Israel Shatzki. Age 33. PC 303H. Found in Tewson?s Court. Married. Furrier. Insane. Hebrew. Disch 22.11.89
FF1168 Nathan Kaminsky. Age 23. 15 Black lion Yard. Single. Bootmaker. Adm for syphilis. Sat Marsh 24th 1888 5.30pm. Hebrew. 12 mths settlement. Disch 12.5.88
STEPNEY LUNATICS. Stepney M.E.O.T. ? [Mile End Old Town] Lunatics Register Sep 1892-97. [A note shows that I also looked through Mile End Old Town Creed Book as back-up ? and, like Charles Nevin, missed the entry for Kosminski?s quick passage through it as his name was so ill-written/ ill-spelled as to mislead me].
Aaron Sanders. D.Colney Hatch, 10 Oct 1902. Admitted 27 October 1892. Supposed 9 days insane. Father, Moses Sanders, 92 Mile End Road.
Lewis Benjamin, alias Abraham Jacobs. (Brother, Joseph Benjamin, 10 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel). Adjudicated to Stepney from Cardiff Union when in Glamorgan County Asylum, 4.1.92. Previously Winson Green Asylum, Birmingham from 1.12.91. Escaped 8.10.92. Discharged 22.10.92. D.o.b. unknown. *See also below [i.e. his reincarceration recorded under Whitechapel 1897].
Morris Schalkind. B.1871. No relations known. Colney Hatch. 1.12.93
Abraham Hochmanovich or Mouchmonour. Born 1867. Father, Noah Mouchmonour, 88 Chambers Street, Leman Street. Transferred from Leavesden to Colney Hatch, 1.12.94. Died 19.4.07.
Isaac Abrahams, b.1847. Wife, Rachael A. of Calverley Street, Mile End. Adm Colney Hatch, 4.9.85. Died 14.2.97
Louis Rozinski, b.1865. Wife, Annie R. 16 Baker Street, Commercial Road. Adm Colney Hatch 22.11.95. Disch 14.5.97
Edward Cohen, b.1855, wife Leah C, 114 Wentworth Street, Vornwall St E. Adm Colney Hatch 23.6.97. Adjudicated to Whitechapel Board, 18.3.98
Whitechapel, 1897
Nacher Marks sent to Colney Hatch, July 27
Isaac Schmiloski, referred by police, 30.9.97. Adm Colney Hatch, 7.8.97
Lewis Benjamin - Police brought in October 19, 1898. Doctors said sane. Wynne Baxter (now JP) sent him to General Ward.
Jacob Weinberg ? to Colney Hatch, Nov 3 1898.
Solomon Golinski ? certified for permanent detention, Leavesden, 13.3.89. [notes, underlinings, etc, show that I made huge attempts to trace more details about this man ? why, I can?t remember. But suspect it may be because the ?inski? end to his name and the permanent committal make me wonder?]
Charles George Ludwig, brought to Whitechapel by police as lunatic, 11 March 1897. Discharged as fit, 27 March. [My added note says ?Register of Lunatics in Whitechapel Workhouse? ? I don?t know why. Remember Ludwig being held as a suspect early in the Ripper case?]
Hyman Brodski to Colney Hatch 14.4.97
STEPNEY REGISTER OF WHITECHAPEL LUNATICS IN ASYLUMS, 1879-1899. [My added note highlights as ?MOST IMPORTANT LIST?. The official listing of Whitechapel and Mile End Old Town as subdivisions of Stepney casts possible light on Swanson?s reference to Kosminski going to Stepney Workhouse. Kosminski passed through Mile End Old Town; Cohen through Whitechapel. I?d have to see the register again to understand why this list is in alphabetical and not chronological order]
David Cohen, aet 23, from 86 Leman Street. Relatives unknown. Adm Dec 21 88. Sent to Colney Hatch. Died Oct 20 89.
Isaac Cohen, aet 31. Adm from 30 Dorset Street, 12.12.90. Relatives unbknown. Died 21.6.91
George Cordell, age 25, adm from 104 Lolesworth Bdgs. Father George C. of same address. Discharge on Dec 11 1891 - struck out - ? (Admitted Banstead 12.11.88)
Thomas Debney, 35 of Flower & Dean, adm Colney Hatch 17.10.90. Transferred to Leavesden 19.10.96
Thomas Donoghue, age 38 of 90 Old Montague St (wife Elizabeth) admitted Banstead, Nov 16, 1888. Died feb 1891.
Hyam Hyams, age 34, adm Colney Hatch from 4 Bell Court, Apr 1889. Disch August 1889.
William Christy Halestrap, age 52, of 97 Backchurch Lane, to Banstead, March 1889.
Morris Jacobs, age 30. Address & relatives unknown. Admitted Colney Hatch, 10 August 1892. Transferred Leavesden, May 94.
Charles Jenkins, age 42, of 15 Dorset Street. No friends. Adm. Cabe Hill, june 92.
Marks Kavinsky, age 22. Address and relatives unknown. To Colney Hatch, May 1899.
Emmanuel Koch. Age 48 of 41 Commercial Road, no friends. Adm Cane Hill, May 92. Transferred Gloucester County Assylum Nov 94. Died March 96.
[My note then reads ?No Kosminski or similar from Whitechapel throughout?. This indicates that Aaron Kosminski was never a charge on the parish to be recorded in Stepney?s register of lunatics the Board of Guardians had in care. Presumably, therefore, his family contributed to his maintenance throughout, which seems rather remarkable]
Isaac Nathan of 25 Sandys Row (father, same name and address), age 24 in 1885, in Colney Hatch, Dec 85 ? Nov 86, when discharged.
Israel Pearl, age 16 0f 14 Plough Street (faher, Simon) adm Colney Hatch, Apr 6, 89. Disch Aug 30, 89
John Francis Shackleton of 55 Flower & Dean (father Edw of 25 Risinghill St, Pentonville Rd) age 32. Adm Banstead 28.12.88. Died 1.9.89.
George Smith, age 21. Crimnal lunatic. Refused to give next of kin. Adm Banstead 25.11.92. Died 10.4.94.
Unknown male from 12 Princelet Street. Adm Colney Hatch 10.12.95, died 14.1.96. Age c.23.
Solomon White ? no details. Adm City Asylum, Stone, feb 23 1889. Transferred Bandstead Sep 89.
All the best, Martin F |
Author: Joseph P. Matthews
Saturday, 03 August 2002 - 08:22 am | | Mr. Fido,
Thank you for this wealth of information.
Best wishes,
Joe |
Author: David O'Flaherty
Saturday, 03 August 2002 - 11:05 am | | Martin,
Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to post these notes--they're much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave |
Author: Martin Fido
Sunday, 04 August 2002 - 06:29 am | | Don't mench. You're welc. Apologies to all for my time-wasting computer incompetence in copy-pasting it all twice over. And for my earlier failure to note that the unwanted question marks usually (though not invariably) replace apostrophes. (God knows why!)
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: Timsta
Sunday, 04 August 2002 - 03:32 pm | | Many thanks Martin. This is almost as good as rediscovering the "Suspects File" 
One question: is this list "complete" in any sense? Or have you merely noted Jewish admissions and other "intriguing" records, for example?
And just to put the cat amongst the pigeons:
"Nathan Pedaver. Admitted 6 November, Polish Jew. Tailor's machinist."
Tailor's machinist, eh? The kind of person who would carry chalk?
Oh, I can see we're gonna have fun with these!
regards
timsta |
Author: Martin Fido
Sunday, 04 August 2002 - 05:26 pm | | You're asking me to think back a long way, Timsta. Since the Whitechapel Infirmary record book includes multifarious entries about people who had coughs and blains and sprains and quinsies and broken bones I obviously restricted entries from that to those that led patients to asylums or recorded them as insane, or involved relevant-looking male Jews. And in fact, on reflection late at night I wondered whether I was correct in recalling that I saw an entry on Annie Chapman being treated for something, or whether I in fact went looking hard for it as she had said she had been in the Infirmary, but found that she certainly did not go in under the name Chapman or Sievey (or variant thereof). All I can say with certainty is that I made some discovery about her which I did not find space to print. [I've got the paragraphing problem again, so this is going to run on horribly]. From the Colney Hatch Men's Day Book I took details of patients who were either Jewish or admitted from the East End, with the addition of dd figures like Bach who illustrated something about the record-keeping habits I was encountering. I imagine that I exercised a similar selectivity in the parish registers. Obviously in the Michael Kidney case I wandered well outside the bounds of "hunt-the-Ripper" because of the intrinsic interest of Kidney's ailments.
As far as I recall when I asked the curators and librarians to read me the entries from the outer asylums I got them to read every entry between November 1888 and December 1890 (just as I read and studied every entry in the Colney Hatch book).
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: Jeff Hamm
Monday, 05 August 2002 - 01:05 am | | Martin,
Like the others, I would like to extend my thanks to you for making all this information freely available. If you are agreeable, I would like to suggest that this information be saved somewhere on the site as a data resource. Thanks again.
- Jeff |
Author: Christopher T George
Monday, 05 August 2002 - 01:23 am | | Hi, Martin:
Thank you for taking the time to post this most valuable information. I will of course be using it in my upcoming book on the Ripper and the Jews.
Several of the names pop out to me. One of them is Charles George Ludwig who I think might be the barber charged in a stabbing incident on 18 September 1888, am I right? (Times report of 19 September 1888, quoted in The Ultimate, p. 93).
Also the listing for the sailor Andrew Anderson which reminds me of the intriguing story of John Anderson, the sailor who died in South America in late 1894 and on his deathbed confessed to being Jack on on board the barque Annie Speer off South America, and was buried in the necropolis of Iquique. One and the same man possibly???? As you probably know, the story of John Anderson was recounted in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper in its issue of Sunday, 18 October 1896. I am intrigued to learn that "Andrew Anderson" was Jewish.
As for Hyam Hyams, this name, rather incredibly, seems to have been a commonish name in the Jewish community, so I wonder if the number of times the name occurs in the records pertain to the same man or a couple of men... the Bell Street seems to settle the question, that it was the same individual. Don't mind me. The same of course might be said for a name like David Cohen, which would seem to be an even more common name, though the age 23 in the couple of mentions seems to confirm it is the same man.
Also is that Elizabeth Stride's Michael Kidney, by any chance? And whether or not Stride's Kidney was one of the same, is the implication that the Michael Kidney listed here definitely a Jew?
I have not tried yet to compare the incarceration dates but that the above are off-the-top-of-my-head observations on first viewing the list.
Thanks again, Martin, for sharing this list from your old notes. Most generous of you.
Best regards
Chris George |
Author: Martin Fido
Tuesday, 06 August 2002 - 06:58 am | | Hi Chris,
I've always assumed Ludwig and Kidney are the two we already know. Also thought Anderson highly interesting and only dimissed him mentsally on hearing final asylum note - (forget why). Apologies for brevity: recuperating from minor surgical treatment yesterday.
All the best,
Martin F |
Author: Scott Nelson
Tuesday, 06 August 2002 - 11:36 pm | | Hi Martin, having just returned from a lengthy business trip, I'm glad I caught your substantial posting on this important piece of your earlier research. I would like to echo Jeff's comments above that your invaluable post be archived on this site.
That being said, there are several names of interest that pop out on these lists. One of interest is Hyam Hyams. Another not on the lists, although I had hoped he might have been, was the cigar-maker, Joseph Isaacs. Isaacs was insane, suspected of being the Ripper, but was acquited of stealing a watch, and nothing more is heard of him, not even a police report, just newspaper accounts (very strange.) Question: what is your assessment that either of these individuals could have been Anderson's Polish Jew suspect (particularly Isaacs)?
Again, Thank you for making this information available to Ripper enthusiasts, Martin. |
Author: Martin Fido
Wednesday, 07 August 2002 - 06:08 am | | Hi Scott!
Hyam Hyams held my attention for a long time as a suitably violent Jewish patient from the right district going into the asylum at the time indicated by Macnaghten. But in the end, his obsession with his wife and his evidently rage-inspired asexual assaults made him seem to me out of the frame. (Pace Maybrickians!)
In re Isaacs, I think it miht be worth your while to check up on the dating of the newspaper accounts, and seeing whether it tallies with any lunatic described under another name (since they evidently weren't always reliable in recording names accurately). There is also the possibility that Isaacs' family were even better off than Kosminski's, and could afford to put him in a private asylum. I was unable to trace any of the private asylum records, thus have no evidence on the original incarceration of Issenschmidt the mad pork butcher who was an early suspect, and whose family were said to have placed him in a private asylum in Bow. I did observe his being transfered to Colney Hatch subsequently.
Without any further information on Isaaca, I couldn't comment on the likelihood of hs being Anderson's Polish Jew - (which must mean, of course, outweighing both Cohen and Kosminski in my assessment).
All the best,
Martin F |
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