Israel Lipski

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Israel Lipski

Israel Lipski , born Israel Lobulsk (* 1865 - August 21, 1887 in London ), was a British umbrella seller and convicted murderer .

Life

Israel Lipski lived in the East End of London and worked as an umbrella seller with his two employees named Harry Schmuss and Henry Rosenbloom.

On June 28, 1887 at around 11 a.m., Dinah Angel found the room of her sixth month pregnant daughter-in-law Miriam Angel locked. The two women usually met around 9 a.m. for breakfast together. Together with the house owner and a tenant, she broke open the door of the room and found Miriam Angel lifeless and in an unnatural position on her bed. A foaming substance oozed from her mouth, which later proved to be nitric acid . A doctor called immediately could only determine the death of the young woman.

Lipski was found under the dead man's bed. He was unconscious and had acid burns in the mouth. Lipski was first taken to the police and later to the hospital.

He was charged with murder, but protested his innocence and claimed that Schmuss and Rosenbloom were responsible for the death of Miriam Angel.

The investigating coroner was Wynne Edwin Baxter , who was also involved in the investigation into the Whitechapel ( Jack the Ripper ) murders the following year.

The trial against Lipski led to a heated controversy: In order to give in to public pressure, which was largely anti-Semitic , a number of exculpatory references were not examined in more detail. The British Home Secretary Henry Matthews spoke out against the death penalty personally but did not intervene in favor of the accused. Lipski was found guilty and hanged in the courtyard of Newgate Prison on August 21, 1887 .

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SURNAME Lipski, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lobulsk, Israel (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British umbrella seller and convicted murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 1865
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1887
Place of death London