What do we really know about Jack?

[John Wheat]

To BTCG

All you are doing is blindly following Cornwell. You've given no real proof as to Sickert being the Ripper. The only proof you have is that Sickert might have written one or two of the Ripper letters. Either show some proof or shut up.

Cheers John

[BTCG]

No the person who's wrong will eventually lose the argument. The person who relies on non existent evidence or purely circumstantial evidence will lose the argument. The person with a ludicrous theory will lose the argument.

I imagine you're desperate to unring the bell. Too late.

[curious4]

Sherlock the ripper

To BTCG

Are you sure Sherlock Holmes wasn't the Ripper?

Actually just looking into that. We have the phrase "on the right track" in "A study in scarlet", foreign royalty dressed suspiciously like astrachan man and Dartmoor prison referred to as Princetown (ok, it is IN Princetown). "A study in scarlet" written of course before the murders (possibly read by JTR?), but I have started to wonder whether Conan Doyle had his own ideas about just who JTR was.

Best wishes,
C4

[John Wheat]

The first person to raise his voice or hurl an insult has already lost the argument.

No the person who's wrong will eventually lose the argument. The person who relies on non existent evidence or purely circumstantial evidence will lose the argument. The person with a ludicrous theory will lose the argument.

[BTCG]

To BTCG

Are you sure Sherlock Holmes wasn't the Ripper?

The first person to raise his voice or hurl an insult has already lost the argument.

[Sam Flynn]

I believe cheesecutter (as an alternative term for flatcap) is used throughout the British Isles.

They're known as "Dai-caps" in Wales.

[John Wheat]

To BTCG

Are you sure Sherlock Holmes wasn't the Ripper?

[BTCG]

They must have come up with that while eating French fries.... err... make that 'crisps'.

The correct term is 'muffin-top.'

Worked with a Brit once, in an electronics shop. The others in the shop would tease him; telling him that Davey Jones was considered the greatest musician to ever come out of England... that the sound Davey made were second to none on the instrument.

AND... they took to wearing something I kept on my bench to treat old smelly units: Old Spice. Drove the Brit right up the wall.

[BTCG]

It's what Sherlock Holmes wore, and it must work quite well.
I mean, when was the last time you saw any deer in Whitechapel?

Yeah...must work.

[Wickerman]

What does one wear to 'stalk' a deer?

It's what Sherlock Holmes wore, and it must work quite well.
I mean, when was the last time you saw any deer in Whitechapel?

[BTCG]

Now there's a theory in the making...Jack the Poacher

Might explain his peaked cap/deerstalker and his sheer elusiveness too!

All the best

Dave

What does one wear to 'stalk' a deer?

[Observer]

Hi Paddy

I believe cheesecutter (as an alternative term for flatcap) is used throughout the British Isles.

Regards

Observer

[Hunter]

Ive just finished reading Londons Shadows by Drew D Gray, and have come to the conclusion that it could have been virtually anyone...

A must read, for sure. Good background material in one book.

[Paddy]

The Common Flat Cap

Hi I dont know how long they have been called this, but a lot of Londoners call the flat cap (The one that nearly everyone was wearing) a Cheesecutter Hat.

Pat.................

[GUT]

G'Day Andy

I think in all honesty...what we know about Jack..is virtually nowt
We know what he did..or mostly what he did...

Only if we know who he did and there seems to be far from universal acceptance on that question.

We surmise we know why he did it

Do we? I for 1 have no idea why he did it.

We know when he did it

Well we know roughly when each victim was killed.

We seem to know who he did it to..

Again a lot don't agree on which victims.

but we don't know who he is... or was..

And from 125 years later doubt we ever will.