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Aaron Kosminski
 * An insane Polish Jew.
 * Hairdresser in Whitechapel


 * A Polish Jew and a resident of Whitechapel
 * Hated women – especially the prostitutes
 * Had strong homicidal tendencies – put in a lunatic asylum about March 1889
 * Believed the ‘higher power’ spoke to him, controlled his actions and claimed to know the movements of all mankind.
 * Refused to wash and accept food from others. He preferred to eat out of the gutter.
 * Schizophrenic, delusional, paranoid and incoherent are all characteristics displayed by Aaron Kosminski.

The second of Macnaghten suspects was Aaron Kosminski, a Polish Jew, who lived in the Whitechapel district when the murders were committed. He was known to have a great hatred for women and strong homicidal tendencies. He was admitted to a lunatic asylum in March 1889. The only evidence against Kosminski was a positive identification by an eyewitness to the Ripper’s Mitre Square murder. At the time of the murder this witness declared that he could not identify the murderer again, then two years later he claimed that Kosminski was indeed the man who committed the crime. Many ripper investigators do not believe that this evidence holds enough weight to point the finger at Kosminski, claiming he may simply have been an insane man in the wrong place at the wrong time.