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CoL Police find photo of graffito? - NOT Goulston St!
It is with tin hat on and foxhole ready to dive in to that I lob this grenade on to the board!
Two weeks ago I was in Spitalfields on one of my regular stays there. I met a man who joined the City of London Police in the mid 1950's and he's now in his seventies. Let me establish immediately I am NOT referring to Don Rumbelow.
I know his name and I know he has impeccable connections with the City of London Police but I will not reveal his details here because it is discourteous and, indeed, unwise to give out personal details without permission, or those details having been already published before hand.
We were talking about the Sydney Street siege and I told him of my particular interest in the Whitechapel murders. He told me he could remember seeing in their museum/archive when he was a young constable a jar that contained part of a kidney which had long since disappeared.
We can only hope no one "fried and ate it".
Then he told me something that made my jaw drop. Indeed, had almost anyone else told me I wouldn't be repeating it here. He said recently, in the last few months, the City of London Police had found a photograph from 1888 believed to have been left by the murderer on City of London territory.
He said news of this was due to be released and he wasn't sure what they were waiting for but he speculated that maybe they were releasing it nearer the time of the Olympics.
In my opinion it's more likely they're waiting until after the Jubilee and the Olympics because a serial killer, however long ago, is not the image we're looking for during these national celebrations with the whole world watching.
Now "Alf" (as I'll refer to him) couldn't or wouldn't give me an answer to the questions that we would all want to know. What does it say, when was it found - in relation to the double event, where was it written and when can we see it.
I have never in 30 odd years of reading about and discussing the case even heard a rumour before that such a message was found. I know Alf is genuine and he has not and is not going to be publishing any book or theory relating to this. Indeed, I found I knew more about the case than him as he had never taken a particular interest in it.
Perhaps he's hopelessly misunderstood what's turned up and he's wrong but I did ask him to repeat it more than once as I found I couldn't believe my own ears.
You see now why, particularly as a new poster, I was so reluctant to put this forward but whether it's correct or not it is presented in good faith and is potentially too important to ignore.
Has anyone got any contacts to confirm or deny?
Two weeks ago I was in Spitalfields on one of my regular stays there. I met a man who joined the City of London Police in the mid 1950's and he's now in his seventies. Let me establish immediately I am NOT referring to Don Rumbelow.
I know his name and I know he has impeccable connections with the City of London Police but I will not reveal his details here because it is discourteous and, indeed, unwise to give out personal details without permission, or those details having been already published before hand.
We were talking about the Sydney Street siege and I told him of my particular interest in the Whitechapel murders. He told me he could remember seeing in their museum/archive when he was a young constable a jar that contained part of a kidney which had long since disappeared.
We can only hope no one "fried and ate it".
Then he told me something that made my jaw drop. Indeed, had almost anyone else told me I wouldn't be repeating it here. He said recently, in the last few months, the City of London Police had found a photograph from 1888 believed to have been left by the murderer on City of London territory.
He said news of this was due to be released and he wasn't sure what they were waiting for but he speculated that maybe they were releasing it nearer the time of the Olympics.
In my opinion it's more likely they're waiting until after the Jubilee and the Olympics because a serial killer, however long ago, is not the image we're looking for during these national celebrations with the whole world watching.
Now "Alf" (as I'll refer to him) couldn't or wouldn't give me an answer to the questions that we would all want to know. What does it say, when was it found - in relation to the double event, where was it written and when can we see it.
I have never in 30 odd years of reading about and discussing the case even heard a rumour before that such a message was found. I know Alf is genuine and he has not and is not going to be publishing any book or theory relating to this. Indeed, I found I knew more about the case than him as he had never taken a particular interest in it.
Perhaps he's hopelessly misunderstood what's turned up and he's wrong but I did ask him to repeat it more than once as I found I couldn't believe my own ears.
You see now why, particularly as a new poster, I was so reluctant to put this forward but whether it's correct or not it is presented in good faith and is potentially too important to ignore.
Has anyone got any contacts to confirm or deny?
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