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 Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide 
This text is from the E-book Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide by Christopher J. Morley (2005). Click here to return to the table of contents. The text is unedited, and any errors or omissions rest with the author. Our thanks go out to Christopher J. Morley for his permission to publish his E-book.

Sickert's Veterinary Student

Some years after the Whitechapel murders the artist Walter Sickert took a room in a London suburb, believed to be 6 Mornington Crescent, Camden. The owners of the house, an elderly couple, told him that the previous occupant of the room was Jack the Ripper, who was a veterinary student whom would stay out all night, then come home in the early hours, before rushing out to buy the morning newspaper. He also occasionally burnt the clothes he had been wearing the night before. When his health began to fail, his widowed mother took him home to Bournemouth, where he died three months later. Sickert wrote the man's name in the margin of a book (said to be Casanova's Memoirs) which he gave to Albert Rutherstone. The book, it is claimed, was lost in the blitz. Donald McCormck, the writer and author, claims to have been told this story and remembers the students name as Druitt, Drewett or Hewitt. If the room mentioned in the story was Sickert's studio at 6 Mornington Crescent, then the last occupant was an Egyptian medical student.







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