Donald Swanson - Jack The Ripper

Jack The Ripper

Dr. Robert Anderson, Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), placed Swanson in overall charge of the investigation into the Whitechapel Murders from 1 September to 6 October 1888. Swanson was freed from all other duties and given his own office at Scotland Yard from which to co-ordinate inquiries. He was given permission to see "every paper, every document, every report every telegram" concerning the investigation. In this way Swanson gained a mass of knowledge and information about the killings.

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