1st April 2018
Born 15th August 1857 Died 4th December 1888
Aged 31 Years
Section 8, to west of Chapel.
Montague Druitt was the second son of William Druitt, Wimborne’s leading surgeon. The Druitt’s lived at Westfield House which still stands today. Educated at Winchester and Oxford, he became a barrister on the Western Circuit and Winchester Sessions. The Jack the Ripper murders are some of the most infamous in the history of crime; they were never solved and countless books have been written about them. Sir Melville MacNaughten of Scotland Yard was alleged to be convinced Druitt was the Ripper and on a confidential memo says, “he was sexually insane and from private information I have little doubt but that his own family believed him to have been the murderer.” Druitt’s mother died incurably insane and Druitt drowned himself in the Thames shortly after the last murder. Believed to be the murderer, the police considered the Ripper case closed after Druitt’s suicide and the dreadful killings perpetrated by “Jack the Ripper” were never repeated beyond Druitt’s death. Was this coincidence or conjecture?
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