Autograph of Forbes Winslow Psychiatrist Famous in Jack the Ripper Case!!

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Up for auction is an autograph of Forbes Winslow. The autograph is on a 1” by 3” piece of yellow paper cut from a letter (with “Yours truly“) and attached to a larger 1.75 by 5.5” pink paper (on which the owner of the autograph wrote “Dr. Winslow“). The reverse side is an autograph of Charles Babington, an English botanist and archaeologist (1808-1895). This comes from a collection of 19 th century notables I purchased a number of years ago. Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow (31 January 1844- 8 June 1913) was a British psychiatrist famous for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper and Georgina Weldon cases during the late Victorian era . In 1874 he turned his attention to solving crimes by using the deductive and reasoning methods of Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes . He then changed his surname to Forbes-Winslow. In 1888, with a little manipulation of the evidence, Winslow came to believe he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper , and believed that if he was given a team of six Police Constables he could catch the murderer. Winslow's suspect was Canadian G. Wentworth Smith, who lodged with a Mr and Mrs Callaghan at 27 Sun Street, Finsbury Square . Mr Callaghan became suspicious of Smith when he was heard saying that all prostitutes should be drowned. Smith also talked and moaned to himself, and kept three loaded revolvers hidden read more

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