Jacob Levy

Jacob Levy

Cum Hoc	·         On 15 August 1890 Jacob Levy was delivered to the City of London lunatic asylum, Stone, in Kent, as an insane person. ·         …Jacob Levy having been arrested on 10 March 1886 for the theft of a weight of meat…he was found guilty of the charge on 6 April 1886 and sentenced to twelve months at Holloway Prison.
Unrepresentative Sample	·         Jacob Levy was employed as a butcher. -Dr. Fredrick Gordon Brown, surgeon to the City of London Police, and who was present at Eddowes’ post mortem at the Golden Lane mortuary, had opinionate that the miscreant’s knowledge of anatomy may be possessed by someone in the habit of cutting animals…he again believed that the cuts inflicted upon Catherine Eddowes were suggestive of a butcher.
Appeal to Ignorance	·         …Jacob finally died at the asylum from General Paralysis of the Insane brought on by the serious sexually transmitted disease syphilis, therefore indicating a possibility of liaisons wit with the Adelgate/Whitechapel prostitutes. ·         Jacob very well have blamed prostitutes for the cause of his illness together with the impending failure of his once successful family butchering business, and he may have also have believed, or assumed, that his children were now syphillic.
Hasty  Generalization	·         Moreover, Godfrey Lushington, a civil servant to the Home Office, had made it his opinion that the murder of both Stride and Eddowes was the work of a Jew. ·         …witness George Hutchison had reported that he had seen a man of Jewish appearance accompanying Mary Jane Kelly on the night of theMillers Court murder, and who he thought as seeing once again a short time later in Jacob’s street of residence-Middlesex Street!