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Robert Donston Stephenson
Robert Donston Stephenson (also known as Roslyn D'Onston) (20 April 1841–9 October 1916) was a writer and journalist, chiefly known for having been made a potential suspect in the Jack the Ripper investigation and for his personal theory as to the identity of the murderer.
== Involvement ==
Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim generally acknowledged to have been killed by 'Jack the Ripper', was found about 150 yards from the London Hospital, on 31 August 1888. Stephenson had been staying at the hospital since 26 July and left on 7 December. His profession, and his private studies of the 'occult sciences', made him take a more than average interest in the evolving murder series. At the London Hospital the murders were, as elsewhere, the major subject of conversation. After witnessing one Doctor Morgan Davies performing a demonstration of how the murderer may have been subduing and killing the victims,〔Stewart P. Evans & Keith Skinner, The Ultimate Jack The Ripper Sourcebook, p. 669. ISBN 978-0-7867-0926-7〕 Stephenson found Davies' behaviour suspicious, and brought the story on, to one George Marsh, an ironmongery salesman professing to be an amateur detective.〔Evans & Skinner, p. 671.〕 George Marsh, on his side, found Stephenson to be the more suspicious character, and went to the Scotland Yard. One of the officers, Inspector Roots, immediately recognized the suspect by description as being a man he had known for 20 years - Robert Donston Stephenson: ''"a travelled man of education and ability, a doctor of medicine upon diplomas of Paris and New York: a major from the Italian Army - he fought under Garibaldi: and a newspaper writer".''〔Evans & Skinner, p. 673.〕 From Roots's report it may seem that Stephenson was cleared of suspicion without further ado. According to Maxim Jakubowski and Jonathan Braund "it appears that his (Stephenson's) cultured manner and eagerness to assist the police with arcane knowledge evoked their admiration rather than their suspicion".〔''The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper'', p. 448, Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and Nathan Braund.〕
Stephenson's interest in the crimes eventually led to an article in the Pall Mall Gazette, presenting his own theory about the motivation and identity of the murderer, based upon the character of the crimes and a possible clue found in Goulston Street. According to Stephenson the murderer would have to be a practician of "black magic" as the parts removed from the victims bodies could be used for ritual purposes. Stephenson's theory also referred to a possible clue found in Goulston Street where, after the murder of Catherine Eddowes on 30 September, in Mitre Square, a piece of her bloodied apron was left under a sentence neatly written in chalk, at the entrance of a 'model dwelling' with Jewish tenants. A written copy was taken down, registering the writing as saying'': "The Juwes are the men that Will not be Blamed for nothing"''. Two weeks later, on 17 October, after noticing that the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Charles Warren, had been claiming that ''"no language or dialogue is known in which the word Jews is spelled JUWES"'', Stephenson wrote a letter to the City Police, claiming that a similar word did indeed exist.〔Stewart P. Evans & Keith Skinner, The Ultimate Jack The Ripper Sourcebook, p. 668.〕
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