Family Connections

On the ground by the side of one of the two chapels in Wimborne Minster Cemetery is the simple grave of Montague John Druitt — A graduate of Winchester College and an avid sportsman who was discovered drowned in the Thames river on December 31, 1888. He would lie there in almost total obscurity, of note only in that he carried a prominent locally family name which still produces solicitors at Christchurch, but for one reason. He is considered by many to be the number one suspect in the case of the Whitechapel murders.

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