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The
Lambeth Poisoner. Born in Glasgow, 1850; graduated from McGill University,
Canada, 1876. Practiced medicine in Chicago. Had an affair with
Mrs Stott, poisoned Mr Stott in 1881, virtually gave himself up
and was imprisoned in Joliet.
Released
in 1891. In England, murdered, with strychnine, Ellen Donworth,
Matilda Clover, Emma Shivell, Alice Marsh. Arrested June 1892. Hanged
by Thomas Billington, but from under the hood he cried "I am
Jack the...urk...ack...ludicrous theories about him escaping or
bribing his way out (of Joliet) do not ring true.
Juan
Pollen letter, read in court by Coroner Braxton Hicks:
Dear Sir, The man that you have in your power, Dr. Neill, is as
innocent as you are. Knowing him by sight, I disguised myself like
him, and made the acquaintance of the girls that have been poisoned.
I gave them the pills to cure them of all their earthly miseries,
and they died. Miss L. Harris has got more sense than I thought
she had, but I shall have her yet...If I were you, I would release
Dr. T. Neill, or you might get into trouble. His innocence will
be declared sooner or later, and when he is free he might sue you
for damages. Beware all. I warn but once.
Yours respectfully, Juan Pollen,
alias Jack the Ripper
Sir
Edward Marshall Hall, who had once defended Cream on a charge of
bigamy, later wrote that he believed Cream had a double, an exact
doppelganger who used his name, and that the men "used each
other's terms of imprisonment as alibis for each other..."
Nash,
Robert Murder, America, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1980: pp 115-117
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