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  1. Montague John Druitt (15 August 1857 – early December 1888) was an English barrister and educator who is known for being a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Druitt came from an upper-middle-class English background, and studied at Winchester College and the University of Oxford.

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  2. 3 days ago · Montague John Druitt was a barrister and school teacher who committed suicide towards the end of 1888. His body was found floating in the Thames at Chiswick on 31st December, 1888. His was one of three names listed by Melville Macnaghten on his 1894 Memoranda.

  3. Montague John Druitt -- A graduate of Winchester College and an avid sportsman who was discovered drowned in the Thames river on December 31, 1888. He is considered by many to be the number one suspect in the case. Interestingly enough, there is very little evidence with which to implicate his guilt. Druitt was the second son of a medical ...

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  5. Discover more about Montague John Druitt, one of the Jack the Ripper suspects. Could Druitt have been the man responsible for the Ripper's reign of terror?

  6. In summary, Macnaghten was no fool and he certainly had access to all Ripper suspect records, many of which no longer exist. So, there may have been some important evidence about Druitt to support his suspicion. However, without that evidence, it is difficult to see why Druitt is a suspect.

  7. Mar 6, 2020 · Montague was the nephew of one of Victorian England’s most famous physicians and an authority on alcohol consumption, public sanitation and contagious disease: Dr. Robert Druitt, whose name was exploited by mass advertising to endorse the use of pure, light wines as a health elixir.

  8. In Jack the Ripper. …most commonly cited suspects are Montague Druitt, a barrister and teacher with an interest in surgery who was said to be insane and who disappeared after the final murders and was later found dead; Michael Ostrog, a Russian criminal and physician who had been placed in an asylum because of….

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