 Chief Constable Dewar sent a telegraph detailing the circumstances of the crime to the London Metropolitan Police , which was investigating the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper . Detectives from London did not consider Bury a realistic suspect in their investigation into the Ripper murders , but Inspector Frederick Abberline did interview witnesses in Whitechapel connected to Bury , including William 's former employer James Martin and landlords Elizabeth Haynes and William Smith . According to the executioner James Berry and crime reporter Norman Hastings , Scotland Yard sent two detectives to interview Bury , but there is no surviving record of the visit in the police archive . 
