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Joseph Lawende (9 February 1847 – 9 January 1925) was a Polish-born British cigarette salesman who is believed to have witnessed serial killer Jack the Ripper in the company of his fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes, approximately nine minutes before the discovery of her body on 30 September 1888.
He lived a long and fruitful life after his brush with destiny and if he truly was the man who saw Jack the Ripper with a victim scant seconds before a murder, he never sought to make more of that moment than it was. Joseph Lawende died in January 1925 aged 78.
9. März 2014 · Joseph Lawende (also known as Lavender) (9 February 1847-9 January 1925). Photograph of Joseph Lawende, at the wedding of his daughter Rose in 1899, reproduced by kind permission of a family member.
A local cigarette salesman named Joseph Lawende had passed by a narrow walkway to Mitre Square named Church Passage with two friends shortly before the murder; he later described seeing a fair-haired man of medium build with a shabby appearance with a woman who may have been Eddowes.
Vor 2 Tagen · The witness, Joseph Lawende, was able to describe the man, but also said he would not be able to identify him if he saw him again. Since her body was found less than fifteen minutes later in Mitre Square, there is a good chance Lawende saw the face of her murderer.
By ADAM WOOD and DON SOUDEN. On Sunday morning, 30 September, 1888, at a little past 1.30am three men left the Imperial Club on Duke Place in the City. The trio comprised furniture dealer Harry Harris, butcher Joseph Hyam Levy and commercial traveller Joseph Lawende.
Joseph Lawende was the man who, along with his two friends, Hyam Levy and Harry Harris, had seen a woman - probably Catherine Eddowes - talking with a man at the entrance to Mitre Square. If Eddowes was the woman Lawende saw, then her companion was almost certainly Jack the Ripper. According to a report by Chief Inspector Swanson, Levy and ...
