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- In September 1888, Ostrog committed another robbery in Paris and was imprisoned, before finally returning to the UK in 1891. He was then detained in an asylum for apparently not being of sound mind.
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In January 1874, as a result of robberies, contempt and attempted murder, he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, and would be released in 1883. Four years later, in July 1887, Ostrog stole the trophy from a cricket contest, and was sentenced to six months in prison.
2 days ago · He is last heard of being released from prison under licence on 17th September 1904, after which he disappears from the records. There is nothing in Ostrog’s long criminal career to suggest that he was homicidal, and there are no records of him ever attacking women.
Over the next few years, Michael Ostrog was periodically in and out of prisons, the asylum, and the country. The exact details still remain unclear, and much of his later life is muddy. However, we do know that all the information about Michael Ostrog disappears from 1904 onwards.
1863: While using the alias Max Grief (Kaife) Gosslar, Ostrog committed theft at Oxford college, and was soon after sentenced to ten months in prison. 1864: Convicted at Cambridge, sentenced to three months in prison.
Michael Ostrog is the last and least plausible of Sir Melville Macnaghten's three suspects. He was a thief and confidence man who used many aliases. He often represented himself as an impoverished Polish nobleman. He spent a good amount of his life in jail, but he was completely unrepentant.
Sep 4, 2016 · In recent times, according to research by leading author/investigator Philip Sugden, it is believed that Michael Ostrog was actually in prison in France during the Whitechapel murder spree of 1888.
Author Philip Sugden discovered prison records showing that Ostrog was jailed for petty offences in France during the Ripper murders. Ostrog was last mentioned alive in 1904; the date of his death is unknown.
