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== The Police Investigation ==
Chief Constable Adolphus Williamson was in charge of the Annie Chapman investigation.
The police investigation followed general thoughts that the murderer was a madman who had escaped or been recently released from a lunatic asylum. [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Walter_Dew Metropolitan Detective Chief Inspector Walter Dew] backed this up in his memoirs stating "This angle of investigation was pursued relentlessly".
Inspector James McWilliam of the City of London CID also confirmed this theory in a Report to the Home Office on 29th October, 1888. The report stated that officers had been sent "to all the lunatic asylums in London to make enquiry respecting persons recently admitted or discharged: many persons being of the opinion that these crimes are of too revolting a character to have been committed by a sane person".
On 19th September, 1888, (day four of the Inquest) Elizabeth Long gave her evidence. She revealed that the man she saw with Annie Chapman on the morning of the murder "looked like a foreigner". Once again this stirred up bad blood with the Jewish community who had ben under suspicion already.
== Early Life ==