The second Nathan Shine, who was born in 1870 a few months after his father had died, is one of the very few people who may have seen the killer known as ‘Jack the Ripper’. It has been reported that on 30th September 1888, when he was only 18, Nathan said that he had left a working man’s social club in Commercial Street, Whitechapel heading for home. On turning into Berner St. at approx. 1.00am he saw a man holding a large narrow bladed knife standing over a woman who was lying motionless on the ground. It appears that Nathan had disturbed the man seconds after the woman had been killed. His story is very credible as the incident he described exactly matches in with the official police reports of the time. It followed that the body of ELIZABETH STRIDE was not mutilated. Mutilation was the usual practice of ‘Jack the Ripper’ after a kill and it was concluded that ‘Jack the Ripper’ was probably disturbed only moments after he stabbed Elizabeth Stride to death.