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  • #61
    I was pressed for time today but did get a new photo of the scribble. It probably won't reveal anything more, but might be worth using brightness/contrast on it. Shame the last few lines are illegible. Although I was whizzing through I did notice a couple of things that I found interesting. Here are the links:

    New image of scribble: http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...pshhezpkpx.jpg

    Odd use of Lewin and Lawende when referring to the same witness, but the first use of 'Lewin' is not struck through whereas subsequent uses are. Odd. http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...pspbobzgsb.jpg

    Mention of the writing on the wall at Goulston Street: http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...psczwwiyme.jpg

    and: http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...psz8mpztwm.jpg

    Report of advice to use decoys (officers dressed as women): http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...psb0v5gcmi.jpg

    Report of advice to use 'cat.' Presumably a cat o' nine tails (whip): http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...psfyldimdu.jpg

    Mention of a 'Packer' claiming the ripper was his cousin. Presumably this isn't the grocer Matthew Packer, or he'd have mentioned it in his statements to the press and police: http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/p...pstria3hiu.jpg

    Hope these are of some interest!

    Dean
    "We want to assemble all the incomplete movements, like cubists, until the point is reached where the crime can commit itself."

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    • #62
      I was able to translate all of the important parts.

      It says: :"The murderer was seen at 1:35. After the Kelly murder, he was captured and made a full confession. Everything he said was consistent with the evidence. His name was (unreadable on this copy). I left the full report including the full signed confession at (again unreadable). This also includes a photo of Mary Kelly taken 2 weeks before her death.His family have also provided evidence that cannot be doubted. We had to keep the killer's identity a secret and deny we solved the case because (unreadable again). "

      Boy, it sure said a lot, didn't it?

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      • #63
        Having a problem with the links above, so will try this way:









        "We want to assemble all the incomplete movements, like cubists, until the point is reached where the crime can commit itself."

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        • #64




          "We want to assemble all the incomplete movements, like cubists, until the point is reached where the crime can commit itself."

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          • #65
            [QUOTE=Hamrammr;371620]



            Here's my attempt on the new image you got. I think the first paragraph is as we thought, but the 2nd paragraph still evades me.
            Attached Files
            Cheers,
            Pandora.

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            • #66
              This may be stupid, but do we know what it says on the page opposite the scribbling? Because if I were writing in the margins, I would write next to the thing I was writing about. And that may give us extra context clues.
              The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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              • #67
                Hi folks,

                One little minor thing. The marginal notes in Chief Inspector Swanson's Oct. 19 report were not written by Swanson. It is understood that they were written by Permanent Under Secretary Godfrey Lushington.
                Best Wishes,
                Hunter
                ____________________________________________

                When evidence is not to be had, theories abound. Even the most plausible of them do not carry conviction- London Times Nov. 10.1888

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Errata View Post
                  This may be stupid, but do we know what it says on the page opposite the scribbling? Because if I were writing in the margins, I would write next to the thing I was writing about. And that may give us extra context clues.
                  Hi Errata.

                  If you can read this, you can see what the scribble is written opposite..

                  Regards, Jon S.

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                  • #69
                    So the first four lines appear to have been resolved?

                    1 - This is said to have been
                    2 - at 1.35 : by that time
                    3 - the woman had been certainly
                    4 - murdered.

                    Line 5 looks to me like:
                    5 - If the time 1.35 is correct the

                    Then line 6:
                    6 - woman was xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                    Regards, Jon S.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Wickerman View Post
                      Hi Errata.

                      If you can read this, you can see what the scribble is written opposite..

                      yeah it's the Lawende or Levin story. Identifying the clothes of Eddowes, the guy talking to her. And that for purposes of comparison the guy looked more like what Schwartz described that who the PC described. And that Stride's murder had no motive.

                      In other words, it say about what you'd expect it to say across from a note with the notation of 1:35 in it. Curses.
                      The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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                      • #72
                        Solved!

                        Originally posted by Howard Brown View Post
                        Interesting. It's a good thing for the witness that the comment was scribbled out once the reference became clearer.
                        Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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                        Von Konigswald: Jack the Ripper plays shuffleboard. -- Happy Birthday, Wanda June by Kurt Vonnegut, c.1970.
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                        • #73
                          Excellent. This the post from CGP on the jtrforums. Makes sense and fits with what I had:

                          This is said to have been
                          at 1.35 : by that time
                          the woman had been certainly
                          murdered.

                          If therefore 1.35 is correct the
                          woman seen could not have
                          [been] the murdered woman.
                          "We want to assemble all the incomplete movements, like cubists, until the point is reached where the crime can commit itself."

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                          • #74
                            And thanks to everyone for your help! If I find any more oddities/puzzles like this I'll share.
                            "We want to assemble all the incomplete movements, like cubists, until the point is reached where the crime can commit itself."

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                            • #75
                              What is interesting about all Swamson's notes in the margins of the various books and may have been overlooked? Is it does suggest that the fact that the theory that the police knew who the ripper was and hushed it up for whatever reason? Would appear to have no credence otherwise why would Swanson make such notes, if you see what I mean?

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