DEW, Walter
Born : 1863
1882 : Joined Metropolitan Police, warrant number 66711. Posted
to X Division (Paddington Green).
1887 : Transferred to H Division (Whitechapel).
1906 : Promoted to Chief Inspector.
1910 : Arrested Crippen. Resigned and set up as a "Confidential
Agent".
1938 : Published his memoirs "I Caught Crippen"
1947 : Died.
Dew saw Mary Kelly's body in her room and regarded it as "...the
most gruesome memory of the whole of my Police career."(I Caught Crippen,
1938)
He believed that Emma Smith was the first Ripper victim and that "Someone,
somwhere, shared Jack the Ripper's guilty secret."(I Caught Crippen,
1938)
Source:
Begg, Fido, and Skinner. The Jack the Ripper A-Z.
