There's no good reason to think he was the Ripper, and many reasons to think he had nothing to do with it. (I end up saying that a lot in this case.) First up, the person who first came to that suspicion because he used a more English sounding name as an alias was just being silly. read more
Charles Cross was the man who found the body of Jack the Ripper victim Mary Nichols at around 3.40am on August 31st, 1888. He was, in fact, on his way to work when he made his gruesome discovery in Buck's Row, Whitechapel. read more