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Police Illustrated News 17.11.1988
Has anyone ever seen, handled or read transcripts of a copy of this issue with a different front cover to the one scanned in on here?
I came across an A5 size copy of the (a) cover in a book yesterday- there are quite a few differences and there are a few details that don't quite make sense, but seeing as they're not present on the cover on here I'm hoping some of you can throw some light on them! Not got a scanner I'm afraid so you'll have to make do with my explanations...
The most notable difference is that the body on the front is not that of MJK (as on the edition on here, and as you'd expect from the date) but Eddowes. I'm assuming there were two editions, one (early) edition- this one- still getting the last mileage out of the Stride/Eddowes killings, hastily replaced once news of MJK's discovery got out? Quick work in the days of antiquated presses and no mobile phones and laptops to submit copy!
But there are another couple of details I hope people know more than me about. It seems like in the light of MJK these details 'dropped off' the front page (whether they remained inside I don't know)-
Top line- 'sketches of the seventh east end crime'- now, this line has survived to the 'MJK edition'- surely that would have been number 8 by their reckoning? More than likely that was just a mistake in the hurry, but who else did they count to get to that total? Presumably Tabram/Turner, but who else? We need two more to make Eddowes number 7. Smith and Millwood perhaps? We know that newspapers such as the PIN took a lot of their info from serving officers, does this perhaps suggest there were initially suspicions amongst the investigating officers that JtR's body count was higher than the canonical victims already?
Another panel, showing a man fitting the generic 'foreign'/ jewish appearance as suggested by Walter etc and the whole Leather Apron furore, is captioned not only 'sketch of supposed murderer' but also, underneath, 'seen haunting house of mr Lusk'- I know Lusk was the subject of some taunting in the (likely fake) letters but I've never read about even any rumours that he felt physically targeted?
finally, another caption shows officers breaking down a door, and is captioned, predictably enough, 'forcing open the door'- as MJK's death doesn't seem to have been discovered by this point, which door is this and why? I know a few suspects were brought in around this time (Bury, Kosminsky supposedly) but I don't remember reading about any house raids?
anyone seen this edition or got any thoughts on it?
I came across an A5 size copy of the (a) cover in a book yesterday- there are quite a few differences and there are a few details that don't quite make sense, but seeing as they're not present on the cover on here I'm hoping some of you can throw some light on them! Not got a scanner I'm afraid so you'll have to make do with my explanations...
The most notable difference is that the body on the front is not that of MJK (as on the edition on here, and as you'd expect from the date) but Eddowes. I'm assuming there were two editions, one (early) edition- this one- still getting the last mileage out of the Stride/Eddowes killings, hastily replaced once news of MJK's discovery got out? Quick work in the days of antiquated presses and no mobile phones and laptops to submit copy!
But there are another couple of details I hope people know more than me about. It seems like in the light of MJK these details 'dropped off' the front page (whether they remained inside I don't know)-
Top line- 'sketches of the seventh east end crime'- now, this line has survived to the 'MJK edition'- surely that would have been number 8 by their reckoning? More than likely that was just a mistake in the hurry, but who else did they count to get to that total? Presumably Tabram/Turner, but who else? We need two more to make Eddowes number 7. Smith and Millwood perhaps? We know that newspapers such as the PIN took a lot of their info from serving officers, does this perhaps suggest there were initially suspicions amongst the investigating officers that JtR's body count was higher than the canonical victims already?
Another panel, showing a man fitting the generic 'foreign'/ jewish appearance as suggested by Walter etc and the whole Leather Apron furore, is captioned not only 'sketch of supposed murderer' but also, underneath, 'seen haunting house of mr Lusk'- I know Lusk was the subject of some taunting in the (likely fake) letters but I've never read about even any rumours that he felt physically targeted?
finally, another caption shows officers breaking down a door, and is captioned, predictably enough, 'forcing open the door'- as MJK's death doesn't seem to have been discovered by this point, which door is this and why? I know a few suspects were brought in around this time (Bury, Kosminsky supposedly) but I don't remember reading about any house raids?
anyone seen this edition or got any thoughts on it?
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