Who is George Hutchinson?

I handed a graphologist photocopies of George Hutchinson’s signatures from his statement given at Commercial Street station on the 12th Nov. He knew nothing of the person and isn’t someone who follows or has more than rudimentary knowledge of Jack the Ripper. Hutchinson’s name meant nothing to him and I separated the signatures from the statement.

This is what he said:

This person is old. The style of the writing . . . and it’s shaky . . . tentative. It’s funny . . . the George is confident but the surname is . . . lacks . . . confidence . . . or rhythm. He’s not used to writing this name. Is this his signature? I can believe the George is his name. He’s accustomed to writing it. It is the same, give or take the natural and expected variants form one signature to another. Look at the H. He can’t decide how to form it or how to connect it to the mid-zone following letter. He so lacks assurance that the letter H is blotted in this signature where his nib has dithered over the paper . . . and see here . . . it’s almost as if . . .  the letters are reducing in size . . .  he doesn’t want to write this. Doesn’t want to be . . . I don’t know . . .  I’d say he’s embarrassed about it. Shy? Perhaps he’s writing this name and it isn’t . . .  his . . .  and he doesn’t like the lie . . . subconsciously . . . Is that right?

Are you saying that Hutchinson isn’t his surname?

I don’t know . . .  but he’s written the name George with authority. If I were to guess I’d say this isn’t his surname and whatever his surname . . . it probably doesn’t begin with the letter H.