Leonard Matters
Leonard Matters (1881 – 31 October 1951) was an Australian politician and journalist.
He was born a British subject in Adelaide, Australia, and fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa. He worked as a journalist in Argentina, and was managing editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. In 1929, he published The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, which proposed the theory that the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper was an eminent doctor, whose son had died from syphilis caught from a prostitute. According to Matters, the doctor, given the pseudonym "Dr Stanley", committed the murders in revenge and then fled to Argentina. The book was marketed as a serious study, but it contains obvious factual errors and the documents it supposedly uses as references have never been found.[1] It inspired other works such as the film Jack the Ripper.[2]
In the United Kingdom general election, 1929, he was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Kennington in London. He held the seat for two years.
See also
References
- Woods, Paul; Baddeley, Gavin (2009). Saucy Jack: The Elusive Ripper. Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 9780711034105
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