The Complete And Essential Jack The Ripper - Plot & Excerpts
The Lodger and Other Stories The idea that Jack the Ripper was a solitary man who lodged in the East End and kept himself to himself had a number of contemporary points of reference. The strange case of the ‘Batty Street Lodger’, where a mysterious tenant left a bloodstained shirt for his landlady to clean, only never to return to his lodgings, was one. Lyttleton Forbes Winslow’s suspect, G. Wentworth Bell Smith, with his obsession with religious tracts and peculiar overnight excursions, was another. A third was Nicolai Wassili (or Vassili or Vasilyef), a suspect suggested by Richard K. Fox, a journalist with the National Police Gazette. According to Fox, Wassili was a financially self-sufficient member of the fanatical ‘Shorn’ sect which condemned sexual relations, yet had a faction which devoted itself to violence. After the Russian Orthodox Church attempted to suppress the sect, Wassili went into exile in Paris and there attempted to continue his work by trying to convert prostitutes, largely unsuccessfully.
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