Free Jack the Ripper: The Secret Police Files by Trevor Marriott

Street where he could have deposited it and may well have even been responsible for the graffiti also found at that location. There is no logical explanation for him specifically making his way to Goulston Street other than perhaps for that purpose.
    It has been suggested that in fact Dc Halse could even have met Pc Long after he had deposited the apron piece. He then told Pc Long about the murder telling him to check all the alleyways etc. because Pc Long then suddenly finds the apron piece. It is suggested that Halse could have told him not say he had seen him as he was out of his jurisdiction and no one would have been any of the wiser with Pc Long getting the credit for finding the valuable evidence. It is an interesting speculative theory.
    So if that were the case what was the motive? Clearly the motive would have been to add even more weight to the belief that Jack the Ripper was a member of the Jewish community and to stir up racial hatred towards them.
    However, having mentioned this specific explanation I have to say that I do not subscribe to this. If Halse had removed the apron piece from the murder scene there would have been no need for him to deposit it in Goulston Street. He could have simply stated that he found it whilst searching the area following the discovery of the body. He would have been playing a dangerous game simply depositing it under the archway because he wouldn’t have been able to guarantee it would be found and linked to the murder in any event, unless of course he had met and primed Pc Long to check the doorways etc.
    The second piece of “significant evidence” was the graffiti found on the wall near to where the apron piece was found. It was suggested that this might have been written by the killer in an effort to implicate the Jews in the murders. As a result Sir Charles Warren the Metropolitan Police commissioner who visited Goulston Street in the early hours ordered that it be erased so as to not incite any racial hatred towards the Jewish community.
    According to Pc Long the graffiti read: “The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing.” However, when Dc Halse later returned back to Goulston Street he noted the graffiti down differently he recorded it as: “The Juwes are the men that will be blamed for nothing.” Was this written by the killer, or someone not even connected to the murder? Or as some will ask did Dc Halse write it himself at the time he is supposed to have deposited the apron piece? After all when he later returned back to Goulston Street he became embroiled in an argument with Sir Charles Warren who wanted to erase it and Halse was opposed to that idea.
    If it had been written by the killer who had wanted to leave a message then why not leave it at the murder scene, which is what signature killers do. After all there was no similar graffiti found at any of the previous murder locations, nor would there be at any subsequent murder locations.
    According to Freemason folklore from the Old Testament, Juwes was the name given to Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum, the three assassins of the Grand Masonic Master, Hiram Abiff. Over the past 125 years many people have been trying to decipher and understand what the graffiti relates to and who wrote it. I have previously discussed this at length. As an investigator one has to always keep an open mind especially in a case like this where very little is conclusive.
    However, the search to interpret the writing has still gone on with the result that no one has come up with a plausible interpretation. The general consensus is that it referred to the Jewish community due to the word “Juwes” appearing in the writing. If the writer was referring to the Jewish community why should he single out men in his writing, surely he would refer collectively to the Jewish community by writing “People”,”Those”, “The Persons”, “They” or “The ones”, the writing is specifically aimed at “men”.
    However, if