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Christopher J. Morley
Police Constable
Username: Cjmorley
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 4:38 pm: | 
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Hello Everyone, According to the newspaper reports at the time, George Hutchinson was variously described as a Groom/labourer, who was at the time unemployed. I recall reading in some reports that he was also a barman/Celler Man ? Does anybody else remember reading that he worked in a pub?. In the book Autumn of terror by Tom Cullen, Hutchinson is described as a Night Watchman, if this information is correct, it would certainly account for his remarkable powers of observation on the night Mary Kelly was murdered. While identifying Hutchinson's occupation may not solve the riddle of whether he was Jack the Ripper or not, it may however help us to move a little closer in finally identifying the mysterious individual that was George Hutchinson. |
George Hutchinson
Inspector
Username: Philip
Post Number: 417
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 8:28 pm: |
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Hi Chris and WELCOME!
Well, we all know that he / I (!) was at Romford LOOKING FOR WORK on the 8th November, so he was clearly unemployed.
Sugden states he was a 'casual labourer', which to my mind would infer he could at some point have been all the things you mention! I would be surprised if the flotsam and jetsom of the East End, such as Hutch, would have held down one job for long, and would have taken what they could - and been grateful for it!
I'd not heard of him being a nightwatchman before. Maybe someone could clarify this, but I do wonder if Cullen was confusing him with George Morris at Kearley and Tonge. Earlier books (the Cullen being 1965) made lots of mistakes like this - though I do love the pictures in the original hardback of AUTUMN OF TERROR (I have the US issue WHEN LONDON WALKED IN TERROR which gets really confusing with the 1948 book of the same name) of elderly people who were about at the time - and the old man holding costume jewellery sold to his family by Martha Tabram - apparently!
PHILIP
Tour guides do it loudly in front of a crowd!
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Christopher J. Morley
Police Constable
Username: Cjmorley
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005 - 6:49 am: |
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Hello George, everyone. Cullen states on page 178 of his book Autumn of Terror, 'George Hutchinson had once worked as a night watchman, which meant that, accustomed to sleeplessness,he often prowled the streets at odd hours of the night'. I am however aware that there were mistakes in Cullen's book. I was just wondering where he got his information about Hutchinson being a night watchman from, a claim he repeats several times, and also if there is any truth in this. |
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