If you could turn back time

[Sickert]

Food at last

I would have dinner with Inspector Frederick George Abberline. I recon he knew a lot more than he let on.

[Phil Carter]

Hello all,

On certain tv programmes, one can choose the guests at a dinner party, up to 6 at a time. Should I hold a dinner party, within the confines of this case, then two rules must be established. Truth at all times, and no hiding of information.

Around my table therefore, I would choose the following:-

James Monro, George Bagster Phillips, John Troutbeck, Wynn Baxter, Daniel Halse and "George Hutchinson".

That should sort the wheat from the chaff, methinks.
Please note Sir Robert Anderson would NOT be invited.

best wishes

Phil

[The Grave Maurice]

I think you're getting greedy, Phil. Not in respect to food, but to guests. Six seems excessive.

Sickert's choice, however, made me think about why I didn't choose Abberline. Seems like an obvious choice, but he didn't occur to me. I suppose it's because, although he was a hard-working copper, I don't think he was any closer to a solution for the mystery than we are now.

Hmm. Interesting thread, this.

[FrancoLoco]

Dinner with Ostrog - nah, then you'd have to make sure all the silverware was still there after he leaves.

As for the time machine part of this thread - I've always said that I'd love to be standing in front of 13 Miller's Court to see who comes out. But then again, I'd also love to see exactly what happened on Berner Street.

If it's a choice between the two, I think I'd go for Berner Street.

[K-453]

Time machine!

What about finding out who Jack was, then going back even further in time, snatching him away as a baby and giving him to loving and caring foster parents?

Okay, if it works and he grows up to be a lovable and respectable fellow, the world would lack an interesting mystery.

[Adam Went]

Wouldn't mind having a yarn with Schwartz's "Pipeman" to be honest - to use a policing term, to see if he could "assist with my enquiries".

And George Sims as well, strangely enough.

Cheers,
Adam.

[mariab]

I'd have liked to talk to inspector Abberline, to William Wess, and to some of Le Grand's minions. Separately, of course.

[RedBundy13]

Who I'd like to know...

If I could have dinner with anyone I would like to sit down and eat with Frederick Abberline. So little is known about him, and it would be so intersting to get his take on the case. I doubt I could get all my questions for him in in just one meal though, but it still would be very interesting for me.

[lynn cates]

back in time

Hello Maria. I have recently found out that we may get to talk with Wess--or at least Rombro. The next Arbeter Fraint (Oct 5) is supposed to contain an account of the WCM up to that point. Hope they were not using hyperbole.

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

If I could have dinner with anyone I would like to sit down and eat with Frederick Abberline. So little is known about him, and it would be so intersting to get his take on the case.

Hi RedB, save your dinner for someone else, his take on the case is widely exposed in his 1903 interviews. It's not worth a fish & chips, is it ?

[Robert]

Actually, I wouldn't mind eating with Abberline, for that way I could photograph him :

Abberline eating sausages
Abberline getting gravy down his shirt
Abberline smoking cigar
And last, and most importantly :
Abberline paying the bill

Then I'd post all the pictures here.

[lynn cates]

Waiter, cheque please. He pays.

Hello Robert.

"And last, and most importantly:
Abberline paying the bill"

You're Scots too, then? (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

Hi Lynn

Well, if I were Scots Abberline would pay for the camera too, and the film.

[lynn cates]

the bomb

Hello Robert. I hadn't thought of that.

(And if there's a bomb, I'll tell ye where it is for a thousand poonds.)

Cheers.
LC

[Robert]

Come man, come, will ye not settle for a bottle of malt and a copy of Lulu's Greatest Hits?