A Jack the Ripper Suspect is Found.

The newspapers on December 15th 1888 were reporting that a suspect had been arrested in connection with the Whitechapel Murders.

On 14th December 1888 Joseph Isaacs, aged 30, whose trade was given as "cigar maker" sand who was reportedly of "no fixed abode" appeared before the Police Court in Worship Street charged with having stolen a gold watch valued at 30 shillings from the shop of a watchmaker named Levenson.

According to the Daily News

"...The prisoner, it may be remembered, had been sought for by the police in consequence of a report of his movements on the night of the murder of Mary Janet Kelly in Dorset street, Spitalfields; and it was aid by the police that they wished the fullest inquiry as to the prisoner's movements on the night of November 8..."

As a result Isaacs was held in custody whilst the police made every endeavour to ascertain his movements on the night in question.

But, as with so many other suspects who the police were finding around this time , the case against him was a weak one and he was soon ruled out of any involvement in the murder of Mary kelly.

Detective Sergeant Record, H division, said that so far there was no further charge against the prisoner othe than for the theft of the Gold watch.

Isaacs was offerred the opportunity to go to trail but, instead, opted to plead guilty to the charge and was duly sentenced to three months' hard labour.