there, the constables, who throughout had no reliable description of the killer, spent considerable time in cheap lodging houses and pubs seeking any "suspicious" wretch. In the early stages they detained and questioned countless men. Later they became reluctant to check even truly suspicious persons. And so the Ripper went on killing.
[John Holliday, an historian writing in his book, Jack the Ripper, the Green River Killer and the Police (1990)]
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