"Graeme Wall" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > 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> I'm not sure why this is interesting - at least on the basis of the facts, of which there aren't many. The wild stories are better but not nearly wild enough to be interesting.