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Hi ,
As I suggested on the ''Quiet thread'' how about starting off a thread to kick start the weekend.
So I ask the question is Oral History of any benefit?
Two gems
come to mind .
Mrs Cox's niece , and her recollections of her aunt recalling that Mary Kelly used to bring home sailors to room 13 , with a bottle of gin slung under her arm, and Blotchy apparently rough handling Mary, when walking through the passage , prompting her to call out''All right my love, don't pull me along''.
All very visual descriptions...but is it true?
Another is the infamous grave spitting.
Did Dan Farson receive a letter from an elderly lady in receipt of his Farson's guide to the British in 1959, and was the description of her mother and a friend witnessing a man actually spitting on the grave of Kelly an actual event?.
There are a host of other accounts, did Mjk really roll sailors , and even swap shawls with other women to avoid capture, and was her pitch outside the Ten Bells, where she would fight with anyone tooth and nail who tried to invade her space.
Did she bother people in lodging houses in her street for money, allegedly to pay her rent.?
Should we believe any of these , and other reports, of not only Kelly , but the other oral tit-bits dotted around the Ripper case.?
Regards Richard.
As I suggested on the ''Quiet thread'' how about starting off a thread to kick start the weekend.
So I ask the question is Oral History of any benefit?
Two gems
come to mind .
Mrs Cox's niece , and her recollections of her aunt recalling that Mary Kelly used to bring home sailors to room 13 , with a bottle of gin slung under her arm, and Blotchy apparently rough handling Mary, when walking through the passage , prompting her to call out''All right my love, don't pull me along''.
All very visual descriptions...but is it true?
Another is the infamous grave spitting.
Did Dan Farson receive a letter from an elderly lady in receipt of his Farson's guide to the British in 1959, and was the description of her mother and a friend witnessing a man actually spitting on the grave of Kelly an actual event?.
There are a host of other accounts, did Mjk really roll sailors , and even swap shawls with other women to avoid capture, and was her pitch outside the Ten Bells, where she would fight with anyone tooth and nail who tried to invade her space.
Did she bother people in lodging houses in her street for money, allegedly to pay her rent.?
Should we believe any of these , and other reports, of not only Kelly , but the other oral tit-bits dotted around the Ripper case.?
Regards Richard.
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