The writing - a name?

[The Good Michael]

The jujubes are not the ones to be blamed for nothing.

Lemming of the BDA

[kensei]

Or a towel, or piece of newspaper, or the body of a cop ordered to stand guard. Something!

[DaveMc]

I don't see a name other than by imagination in the writing.
If there were some cleverness to the use of capitalization, the use of "Juwes" would be more clear.
Plus, we don't know if the person used the capital letters or it was the style of the officer who copied it down.
That photo Warren chose not to take sure would have been handy.
Too bad it didn't dawn on him to drape a bed sheet over it.

[Autolycus]

Hi Chris,

Many Thanks.

Regards,
Autolycus.

[Chris Scott]

Jewer was an uncommon surname
In 1881 there were 18 listed and in 1891 there were 14
The large majority of these of this name came from one place.... Wimborne in Dorset!
I don't recall finding anything about a Jewer with a criminal record.

[Autolycus]

Who were the Jewers?

Hi JacknJill,

The thought of a similar sounding surname had occured to me as well. In fact, on a previous unrelated thread, I think Chris Scott found a contemporary or near contemporary reference to a family called the "Jewers". I seem to recall that one of them had some sort of criminal record.

If Chris is around, perhaps he could enlighten us?

Regards,
Autolycus.

[JacknJill]

Ok, so an interesting suggestions was made to me by one of the children in my class about the message that JTR supposedly left on the wall. "The Juwes are the men who will not be blamed for nothing." (or any of the other various versions).
Though the rest of the class thought it somewhat silly I thought perhaps he had a point. What if - rather than Juwes referring to the Jewish population, it was actually a name. A surname perhaps? Which would explain it's capital J and the strange spelling of it.
Also, JTR (if indeed he did write it) seemed to have wrote it almost specifically. He purposefully placed lines and began each with a capital.

"The Juwes are
The men that
Will not
be Blamed
for Nothing."

It seems to be written in some sort of purposeful style - eg - Will not is placed so far out instead of being written in line with the other sentences. Perhaps it is nothing, just the over imagination of a kid. But I thought perhaps he did have a point. I tried searching for Whitechapel censorship but of course couldn't find any definite results no matter how hard I tried.