In 1903, Frederick Nicholas Charrington, who forsook a lucrative fortune to dedicate his life to helping London's less fortunate, purchased Osea, a small island off the River Blackwater in Essex.
Charrington, a former brewer himself, turned Osea into a working camp for recovering alcoholics and malcontents. His evangelical zeal and hatred for vice has placed him on the long list of Jack the Ripper suspects — or, at the very least, made him partially responsible for the puritanical climate that closed brothels and forced prostitutes into the streets, where they were easy prey for whoever the actual Jack the Ripper happened to be.
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