Jack The Ripper's face??

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  • Losmandris
    Sergeant
    • May 2019
    • 715

    #16
    Happy New Year one and all!

    I am pretty sure the walking stick plays a small role in the graphic novel 'from hell'. Someone selling them after the double event as 'mad monk' walking sticks. Abberline is presented with one as a bit of a joke at the end? I think? The stick looks just like the one in the novel, so agree don't think it has been hidden for years.
    Best wishes,

    Tristan

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    • mpriestnall
      Inspector
      • Apr 2019
      • 1190

      #17
      A mystery that never was. How ironic.
      Sapere Aude

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      • mpriestnall
        Inspector
        • Apr 2019
        • 1190

        #18
        Apparently Packer was discredited...

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        • Aethelwulf
          Inactive
          • Aug 2021
          • 1125

          #19
          Originally posted by mpriestnall View Post
          Apparently Packer was discredited...
          If Packer did sell grapes to the ripper, those sketches go a fair way to explaining how he got away with it. He looks so totally unremarkable and normal that if passed in the street, you wouldn't look twice. He also looks like he could have money.

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          • Aethelwulf
            Inactive
            • Aug 2021
            • 1125

            #20
            Passable on nose and eyes but can't see the hair in either sketch. Reasonable on a sort of 'youthful' look of someone late twenties. A sketch of Bury in August 1888 apparently shows him with just a moustache. The theory is he grew the beard to change his appearance, possibly after the double event (Beadle) but I think more likely after the failed attempt and good description in relation to Farmer.

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            • The Rookie Detective
              Chief Inspector
              • Apr 2019
              • 1899

              #21
              A Jew called Marks Silverman ran a chandlers shop out of 6 Fashion Street.

              He made customised walking sticks for a living

              And ended up in the asylum for Jews; labelled as an "incurable" lunatic.

              There are other coincidences too.


              IMO a good candidate for MR U N Known.



              RD
              "Great minds, don't think alike"

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