D'Onston for dummies

[andy1867]

could someone please tell me the answer to the following question.

How many beans make 5 ?

its an old saying to which i still dont know the answer........any old bean mongers on here that might help out ?

the answer canonically... is actually 5...though some say 11

[Phil H]

But are they "has beens" like a humber of Casebook posters. In which event they can add up to anything you want. or more likely, can't add up at all.

Isn't 39 always the answer in Ripperology though?

Phil H

[Beowulf]

Well, seeing this column is entitled "D'Onston for dummies" I'll bite:

Does anybody on here consider D'Onston a serious contender for Jack the Ripper?

Was D'Onston a Theosophist? (I ask because in Bell Book and Candle Elsa Lanchester tells Jimmy Stuart the man who lived in his apartment before him was very nice and HE was a theosophist. First I ever heard of it. Lets face it Blavatsky is interesting herself)

Why was D'Onston considered by the police, at all, as a suspect? So far, in reading Jack the Ripper and Black Magic, by Spiro Dimolianis all I can see is he was interested in the case and anybody interested I guess immediately became a suspect?

Other than that, they thought he might've slipped out at night from the asylum and then returned after his wicked wicked ways.

[Phil H]

Nah - I have never seen anything that makes me think R D'O S was "Jack".

I read all three of Melvin Harris's books years ago as well as Spiros' recent book

Phil H

[ChrisGeorge]

Well, seeing this column is entitled "D'Onston for dummies" I'll bite:

Does anybody on here consider D'Onston a serious contender for Jack the Ripper?

Was D'Onston a Theosophist? (I ask because in Bell Book and Candle Elsa Lanchester tells Jimmy Stuart the man who lived in his apartment before him was very nice and HE was a theosophist. First I ever heard of it. Lets face it Blavatsky is interesting herself)

Why was D'Onston considered by the police, at all, as a suspect? So far, in reading Jack the Ripper and Black Magic, by Spiro Dimolianis all I can see is he was interested in the case and anybody interested I guess immediately became a suspect?

Other than that, they thought he might've slipped out at night from the asylum and then returned after his wicked wicked ways.

Why was D'Onston considered by the police, at all, as a suspect?

It might appear to me that it was more that D'Onston might have considered himself suspect, or at least seems to have given people the idea that he could have been the Ripper, if the story of the bloody ties is to be believed. But if I am right, then he was more like writer George Sims and Sims' seemingly his light-hearted line that he (Sims) matched the description of a Ripper suspect. At the very least, D'Onston was a busybody who interfered in various ways with the case and who "thought he knew" more than he probably did.

All the best

Chris

[andy1867]

While you are on Chris...Is there any evidence of patients suffering from Neurasthenia..(which seems to me the Victorian version of Yuppie flue) getting day release or weekend leave during their "rest cures"...or would they have to sign in and out at a porters lodge or some such office
Regards
Andy

[andy1867]

October 3, 1888 -- Grand and Batchelor take Matthew Packer to view the body of Catharine Eddowes, implying that it is Elizabeth Stride in order to evaluate his testimony. Packer passes the test, saying he does not recognize the body.
Have just come across this on the timeline, don't really understand it, which is why I'm posting on the "dummies" thread.
I presume Grand and Batchelor are private detectives, seems they have an inordinate amount of sway....were they hired by the police...?...or if youve trawled over it before ad nauseum could someone simply point me in the right direction?

[lynn cates]

Charles Le Grand

Hello Andy. You'll want to chat up Tom Wescott. Or, you may look under suspects for Charles Le Grand.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.
LC

[andy1867]

Hello Andy. You'll want to chat up Tom Wescott. Or, you may look under suspects for Charles Le Grand.

Hope that helps.

Cheers.
LC

Thanks Lynn..I'll take option 2 ..no offense to Tom , but I doubt he wants me chattin' him up

[jmenges]

Everyone has to start somewhere...but its extremely hard on here...to find somewhere to start

Might I be so bold to suggest listening to the podcasts? Available on the left hand side bar.

JM

[andy1867]

Might I be so bold to suggest listening to the podcasts? Available on the left hand side bar.

JM

Listened to all of them JM, thoroughly enjoyed them, but can't recall any being about Le Grand unless ive missed it,

[Roy Corduroy]

Andy somehow I missed the whole D'onston bit. There was a book by Igor somebody? Not gone back to bone up on it.

Roy

[Mayerling]

Andy somehow I missed the whole D'onston bit. There was a book by Igor somebody? Not gone back to bone up on it.

Roy

Hi Roy,

The book was by Ivor Edwards. It was entitled "Jack the Ripper's Black Magic Rituals."

Jeff

[Stewart P Evans]

Charles Le Grand

Charles Le Grand from a contemporary drawing -

[Digalittledeeperwatson]

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