sentences:  Lusk was elected Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee by other local businessmen who made up the Committee on 10 September 1888.His name was printed on the numerous posters pasted up around Whitechapel appealing for information during the murders.He and the Committee's Treasurer, Joseph Aarons, wrote a letter to "The Daily Telegraph", addressed to the then Home Secretary, Henry Matthews, stating that the offer of a substantial reward from the government would "convince the poor and humble residents of our East-end that the government authorities are as much anxious to avenge the blood of these unfortunate women as they were the assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke."