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Sunday 23 August 2015

Ten Green Bottles

... or simply Green Bottles is a well known children's song.
Like many folk songs the origin of "Ten Green Bottles" is lost to antiquity, it was believed to be of English, more specifically of Yorkshire origin, although one suggestion is that greenbottles refers to officers of the Metropolitan Police, apparently underworld jargon for the new force founded by Act of Parliament in 1829.

Sunday 16 August 2015

Even God didn't want his company!

I believe The Ripper lived until a ripe old age ... Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Even God didn't want his company!

Friday 14 August 2015

Goulston Street graffiti.

Goulston Street graffito. A brick is eight x four inches. Sergeant Halse stated: The writing is in good schoolboys script, 3/4 of an inch.The writing formed three lines ... To fit the bricks and to scale it would need to be placed similarly to this.

Jews, Juwes, Jewes, Jeuwes, Juwes, Jeuws, Juewes or Juews? These were the variant spellings according to different author's reports. The mid-line scrawl caused confusion. Writing on a brick wall, with chalk, isn't likely to assist legibility.
In this drawing I've used letters from Saucy Jack and Dear Boss missives
Jewes definition.

Tuesday 4 August 2015

He is not dead but liveth

He is not dead but liveth "Sue Iremonger, a member of the World Association of Document Examiners, is at present engaged in a fresh study of the Ripper letters. She believes a communication of 6th October to be in the same hand as the "Dear Boss' letter and does not think either of them could have been produced by Best's flattened Waverley nib. "He is not dead but liveth" and continued that the writer was about to "recommence operations" in that neighbourhood and signed 'Jack the Ripper'. The second letter, coming after widespread reporting of the case on 7th June, went on to say "I see you have not caught me yet? Look out for the pieces." ... The Complete History of Jack the Ripper Philip Sugden The quote comes from "He is not dead but liveth" was published in the Dominion Illustrated 11th Aug 1888 translated by John Talon-Lesperance.

Sunday 2 August 2015

How very neat and tidy!

How very neat and tidy!

The canonical five Ripper victims: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly.

How very neat and tidy!
Why are there but five?

Because Sir Melville Macnaughton said it was so. I'm sure if he said, "Let there be light," the sun would shine at midnight on foggy London. He states "The Whitechapel murderer had five victims, and five victims only."

A pity he wasn't on the ripper case, with that degree of assurance it would surely have been just a question of his decree and he'd have the murderer dangling from a rope.. Alas, history and crime busting were denied his talent and the murders remain, 'Case open.'

The Annual Report of the Sanitary Conditions of Whitechapel listed no
murders in the Whitechapel area in the years 1886 and 1887. The report listed only 71
cases of violent death in the Whitechapel area in 1887; 69 of those deaths were attributed
to accidents and the remaining two were suicides. Only one murder was recorded for the
entire Whitechapel area in 1889 and again in 1890 (Paley, 1996). This suggests that while
the Whitechapel area was crime laden, the occurrence of murder was rare.

But suddenly, we have not one serial killer, but two (torso killer) operating within the same time frame and in the same area!

 Peter William Sutcliffe (born 2 June 1946) is an English serial killer who was dubbed "The Yorkshire Ripper" by the press. In 1981 Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others.

If we compare Jack with his name sake: The Yorkshire Ripper changed his Modus operandi and used increasing violence before he finally killed.