Sir John Williams Research Paper

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Sir John Williams, surgeon to Queen Victoria - who lived in London at the time of the so-called Jack the Ripper slayings- was at the time a prime suspect for having carried out the crimes, and recently a knife was found among possessions belonging to the Welsh surgeon, which could have been the murder weapon. Known to his family at the time as Uncle Jack, Sir John fled from London after the murders, later founding, in Aberystwyth, the National Library for Wales, and recently a distant ancestor of his - great-great-great-great nephew to be precise - one Tony Williams, 49, unearthed the old black-handled surgeon's knife, used for operations. Tony found the possibly incriminating blade among a whole host of possessions left by his forebear, not least of which were 3 glass slides containing uterus smears, which Tony feels is further…show more content…
Add to this the testimony of Dr Thomas Bond, pathologist who said the weapon involved would have been that long, very sharp, 1in wide with a pointed top, which neatly describes a surgeon's knife, and fits perfectly the description of the knife recently discovered. Born November 1840, Sir John Williams was raised to the baronetcy by Victoria for his medical work in 1894, and had a Harley Street surgery when the killings took place - 5 prostitutes butchered on the streets of Whitechapel, these being Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly between August and November 1888, all expertly sliced open, some disembowelled, and two missing their uterus. Sir John's wife, Mary Hughes, could not have children - a possible motive for the actions of this Jekyll and Hyde-type character - and several other key pieces of evidence also point to his guilt.
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