William Henry Bury (18591889) was suspected of being the notorious serial killer J

the Ripper. Hanged for the murder of his wife Ellen, he was the last person executed i
Dundee, Scotland. Orphaned at an early age, he was dismissed from a clerk job for th
and became a street peddler. In 1887, he was married in London; in January 1889, the
moved to Dundee. The following month, he strangled his wife with a rope, stabbed her
dead body with a penknife, and hid the corpse in a box in their room. A few days later,
presented himself to the local police and was arrested for her murder. This was shortly
after the height of the London Whitechapel murders, which were attributed to the
unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper. Bury's previous abode near Whitechapel and
similarities between the Ripper's crimes and Bury's led the press and executioner Jam
Berry to suggest that Bury was the Ripper. He protested his innocence in the Ripper
crimes, and the police discounted him as a suspect. Later authors have built on the ea
accusations, but the idea that Bury was the Ripper is not widely accepted. (Full article
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