Peter the Painter. His name wasn’t Peter, and he wasn’t a painter. Discuss.

(Okay, actually he might have been a painter. Historians are a bit unsure of his real identity.)

WAS PETER THE PAINTER A RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SPY? New Light on the Mystery of the Houndsditch Murders and the Siege of the Anarchist House in Mile End, London. (PDF)

From May 7, 1911