Jack the Ripper Suspect – Thomas Hayne Cutbush

Cutbush was sent to Lambeth Infirmary in 1891 suffering delusions thought to have been caused by syphilis. After stabbing a woman in the backside and attempting to stab a second he was pronounced insane and committed to Broadmoor Hospital in 1891, where he remained until his death in 1903.

The Sun newspaper suggested in a series of articles in 1894 that Cutbush was the Ripper.

There is no evidence that police took the idea seriously, and it is alleged that Melville Macnaughten’s memorandum naming the three police suspects Druitt, Kosminski and Ostrog was written to refute the idea that Cutbush was the Ripper.

Cutbush was the suspect named in the 1993 book Jack the Myth by A. P. Wolf, who suggested that Macnaughten wrote his memo to protect Cutbush’s uncle who was a fellow police officer.

Conclusion: It is highly unlikely that Thomas Hayne Cutbush was Jack the Ripper.