Graeme Wall<[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/01/2015 07:28, Charles Ellson wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:25:28 +0000, Graeme Wall > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 28/01/2015 06:45, laidlaws wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> laidlaws<[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> eve via<[email protected]> wrote: > A BUCKS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY > >>>> TALK > >>>>> The WHITECHAPEL MURDERS of the '90s have fascinated people for over > >>>>> a century, especially those whose ancestors lived in the East End > >>>> in those > scary times. Jack the Ripper was blamed - and has been > >>>> identified with > various Victorian doctors, a Royal Prince, and more > >>>> recently, on very shaky > evidence, a Russian Jew. One of the > >>>> investigating team was a P C John > Neill, and (in costume) his near > >>>> namesake, John Neal, a former London > policeman, has studied the > >>>> crimes more searchingly, in the light of modern > techniques, and come > >>>> to the conclusion that > JACK THE RIPPER WAS INNOCENT -OK? > >>>>> Come and hear his theories, agree or disagree, on Saturday February > >>>> 14 at > the Southcourt Community Centre, Prebendal Ave. Aylesbury HP21 > >>>> 8LF > (parallel with Oxford Rd A418, just off ring road) 2 for > >>>> 2.30pm Directions > and details: www.bucksgs.org.uk or > >>>> [email protected] or 01844 291631 > >>>>> Easy parking on site. > >>>>> Visitors welcome, but no responsibility for fainting fits, shock or > >>>> horrors! > >>>>> EVE > >>>>> Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians > >>>>> Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society > >>>> If Jack the Ripper didn't do it, who did? > >>>> -- > >>>> Usenet Reader for Android > >>>> http://android.newsgroupstats.hk > >>> > >>> What I meant to say is: The self-styled Jack the Ripper may be innocent, > >>> but nowadays, the title refers to the real murderer. > >> > >> There was no self-styled Jack the Ripper, that title was a newspaper > >> invention. Someone killed half a dozen prostitutes in East London in a > >> messy fashion in the 1890s but we will never know now who the culprit was. > >> > > The National Archives have a letter (letters ?) purporting to be from > > him but just signed "Jack". > The 19th century equivalent of on-line trolls. > > > >> Won't stop people coming up with ever more fanciful theories though. > -- > Graeme Wall > This account not read, substitute trains for rail. > Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail> Apparently Scotland Yard showed the death mask of the suspect from Victoria, Oz, as being the "real" Ripper. A local magistrate thinks he didn't get a fair trial. If they ever identify the Ripper, it would be a tragedy. -- Usenet Reader for Android http://android.newsgroupstats.hk

On 28/01/2015 08:48, laidlaws wrote: > > > Graeme Wall<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 28/01/2015 07:28, Charles Ellson wrote: >> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 07:25:28 +0000, Graeme Wall >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> On 28/01/2015 06:45, laidlaws wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> laidlaws<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> eve via<[email protected]> wrote: > A BUCKS GENEALOGICAL >> SOCIETY >> >>>> TALK >> >>>>> The WHITECHAPEL MURDERS of the '90s have fascinated people for over >> >>>>> a century, especially those whose ancestors lived in the East End >> >>>> in those > scary times. Jack the Ripper was blamed - and has been >> >>>> identified with > various Victorian doctors, a Royal Prince, and >> more >> >>>> recently, on very shaky > evidence, a Russian Jew. One of the >> >>>> investigating team was a P C John > Neill, and (in costume) his near >> >>>> namesake, John Neal, a former London > policeman, has studied the >> >>>> crimes more searchingly, in the light of modern > techniques, and >> come >> >>>> to the conclusion that > JACK THE RIPPER WAS INNOCENT -OK? >> >>>>> Come and hear his theories, agree or disagree, on Saturday >> February >> >>>> 14 at > the Southcourt Community Centre, Prebendal Ave. Aylesbury >> HP21 >> >>>> 8LF > (parallel with Oxford Rd A418, just off ring road) 2 for >> >>>> 2.30pm Directions > and details: www.bucksgs.org.uk or >> >>>> [email protected] or 01844 291631 >> >>>>> Easy parking on site. >> >>>>> Visitors welcome, but no responsibility for fainting fits, shock or >> >>>> horrors! >> >>>>> EVE >> >>>>> Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians >> >>>>> Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society >> >>>> If Jack the Ripper didn't do it, who did? >> >>>> -- >> >>>> Usenet Reader for Android >> >>>> http://android.newsgroupstats.hk >> >>> >> >>> What I meant to say is: The self-styled Jack the Ripper may be >> innocent, >> >>> but nowadays, the title refers to the real murderer. >> >> >> >> There was no self-styled Jack the Ripper, that title was a newspaper >> >> invention. Someone killed half a dozen prostitutes in East London >> in a >> >> messy fashion in the 1890s but we will never know now who the >> culprit was. >> >> >> > The National Archives have a letter (letters ?) purporting to be from >> > him but just signed "Jack". >> The 19th century equivalent of on-line trolls. >> > >> >> Won't stop people coming up with ever more fanciful theories though. >> -- >> Graeme Wall >> This account not read, substitute trains for rail. >> Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail> > > Apparently Scotland Yard showed the death mask of the suspect from > Victoria, Oz, > as being the "real" Ripper. A local magistrate thinks he didn't get a > fair trial. Given there wasn't a trial as such, how could it have been fair? If they ever identify the Ripper, it would be a tragedy. For the book-trade, certainly. -- Graeme Wall This account not read, substitute trains for rail. Railway Miscellany at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>