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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris

Post Number: 693
Registered: 4-2003

Posted on Sunday, November 09, 2003 - 12:39 pm:

Below is an article from the Trenton Times of 18 December 1888 giving details of the arrest in Montreal of John Langhorn who attempted an assault on on young woman, proved to be the writer of a Ripper letter and claimed to be the Ripper. The article says he was 25 and from London, so in 1881 he would have been 18. There is a John Lanhorne aged 18 listed in the 1881 census where his details are given as:
JOHN LANGHORNE
Born 1863 in Tonbridge, kent
A Scholar at Westminster College, Little Deans yard, St Peters, London

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