Biography Thomas Hayne Cutbush was born in 1866 in Kennington, a district about 3 miles from Whitechapel, and was 22 years old when the murders in London's East End occurred. He came from a respectable middle-class family, but his childhood was conflicted, since his father left Thomas' mother Kate and young Thomas when he was only 2 and went to New Zealand where he married URL He was an only child, his mother Kate never married again. URL Kate and her unmarried sister Clara brought Thomas up. It has been suggested they were very religious women who suffered from neurological disorders but Kate doted on her only son. URL The inmate's most noted defender was Sir Melville Macnaghten, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. In a famous police memorandum, he emphatically rejected Cutbush's alleged guilt and, instead, related the names of three others, outlining the reasons that led him to believe that those individuals were more plausible suspects to occupy the anonymous figure of Jack the Ripper.Melville MacNaghten, Days of My Year, Editorial Hard Press, Londres, Inglaterra (2012). Sir Melville also suggested that Thomas was closely related to Superintendent Charles Cutbush, who committed suicide in 1896, a few years after retiring from the Metropolitan Police, but in fact they were not related at all. URL
Biography Thomas Hayne Cutbush was born in 1866 in Kennington, a district about 3 miles from Whitechapel, and was 22 years old when the murders in London's East End occurred. He came from a respectable middle-class family, but his childhood was conflicted, since his father left Thomas' mother Kate and young Thomas when he was only 2 and went to New Zealand where he married again. He was an only child, his mother Kate never married again. Kate and her unmarried sister Clara brought Thomas up. It has been suggested they were very religious women who suffered from neurological disorders but Kate doted on her only URL The inmate's most noted defender was Sir Melville Macnaghten, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard. In a famous police memorandum, he emphatically rejected Cutbush's alleged guilt and, instead, related the names of three others, outlining the reasons that led him to believe that those individuals were more plausible suspects to occupy the anonymous figure of Jack the Ripper.Melville MacNaghten, Days of My Year, Editorial Hard Press, Londres, Inglaterra (2012). Sir Melville also suggested that Thomas was closely related to Superintendent Charles Cutbush, who committed suicide in 1896, a few years after retiring from the Metropolitan Police, but in fact they were not related at all. 
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