It's believed by some that Jack the Ripper was a Mason who killed the women that he did because they knew that Prince Albert Victor got a prostitute pregnant. She gave birth to the baby who he had sent to an orphanage and had the prostitute committed to a mental asylum. When the other prostitutes started to talk Prince Albert Victor who was a Mason himself set the gears in motion to have them murdered. The prostitutes who were not murdered spoke of a man they called "Leather Apron".

When the murders were happening people started blaming the Jews and there would be graffiti on walls that called the Jews out.

The Jews in that area knew it was the Masons so they exacted revenge by infiltrating the Masons and taking over the organization.

The Masons of today are not the Masons that Washington was a member of. But even Washington lost interest in the organization as he got older.

Not to say that the Masons of today are evil and the Masons of Washington's days were wonderful people - after all they did kill some prostitutes. The organizations are only as strong or as weak as its members. Right now they're pretty weak but it only takes one Adam Weishaupt or Manly Hall to get them going again. The Freemasons are cyclical. Like circuses.