Why disguise the fact that JtR was educated?

[curious4]

Dyslectic

Hello GUT,

I did put forward some time ago the idea that JTR was possibly dyslectic. A great many of the mistakes in the letters corresponding with the list of signs of dyslexia compiled by the Swedish expert in dyslexia, Sigrid Madison. forum.casebook.org/archive/index.php/t-4731.html (hope that's the right link). There is no actual proof that the letters were written by a journalist, merely speculation. I believe that the Dear Boss, Sailor Jack and Lusk letters were written by the same person, the handwriting deteriorating as his mental state worsened. The Openshaw letter shows none of the characteristics of dyslexia, but the "threatening letter" does.

Best wishes
C4

[Simon Wood]

Hi GUT,

I suggest you read my book.

Regards,

Simon

[GUT]

There is just one letter in a few thousand correspondences that claimed it was accompanied by a piece of a Ripper victim, a piece that through analysis, could neither be proven nor disproven to have come from Kate Eddowes.

For me, that in and of itself makes the "Catch me when you can" signed letter the most tantalizing.

I cant for the life of me imagine anyone going to such lengths as to obtain a section of a human kidney, immerse it in spirits for approximately the elapsed time from the Eddowes murder to Lusks receipt of the package, simply for a lark. Sending an anonymous letter would have been much easier and cheaper, as evidenced by the many, many hoax letters that were sent.

Why Lusk? That's an interesting question.

Cheers

I agree on at least two counts.

1 Why Lusk
2 if any letter is real Lusk is the most likely (but Dr Openshaw must be number two).

[Michael W Richards]

There is just one letter in a few thousand correspondences that claimed it was accompanied by a piece of a Ripper victim, a piece that through analysis, could neither be proven nor disproven to have come from Kate Eddowes.

For me, that in and of itself makes the "Catch me when you can" signed letter the most tantalizing.

I cant for the life of me imagine anyone going to such lengths as to obtain a section of a human kidney, immerse it in spirits for approximately the elapsed time from the Eddowes murder to Lusks receipt of the package, simply for a lark. Sending an anonymous letter would have been much easier and cheaper, as evidenced by the many, many hoax letters that were sent.

Why Lusk? That's an interesting question.

Cheers

[pinkmoon]

The simple fact that the dear boss letter was addressed to a news agency screams journalist .

[GUT]

I see, I was confusing the letters and I do see the possibility of it perhaps being two individuals instead of the one person. I think I was focusing more on the two communications alone rather than the three as a whole. And reading From Hell again I do see the 'insidious Jokerish' side of his communication, and the sense of it being an Irishman whom wrote it.

Thank you.

LMS

Of course the question is which, if any, we're written by Jack?

[intheshadows]

I see, I was confusing the letters and I do see the possibility of it perhaps being two individuals instead of the one person. I think I was focusing more on the two communications alone rather than the three as a whole. And reading From Hell again I do see the 'insidious Jokerish' side of his communication, and the sense of it being an Irishman whom wrote it.

Thank you.

LMS

[Rosella]

Hello, intheshadows, and welcome to the forum! I was rude in my post, and didn't say hi!

[GUT]

In the first letter received from Jack the Ripper 'Dear Boss', he appears to be a well educated individual in the way he writes and his layout, ending the letter with 'Yours truly'. However, in the following postcard that is sent to George Lusk there are numerous grammatical and spelling errors. The handwriting on both the letter and postcard are identical so we know (if not assume) that it is defiantly from Jack the Ripper or at least the same person.

My question is: Why did he feel the need to disguise the fact that he was educated?

LMS

G'day shadows.

Welcome to casebook.

As others have said I think you are confusing 3 letters as two.

Dear boss introduces the name Jack.

Saucy Jack is the Postcard

Both of these may be in the same hand.

Lusk is the one where he seems an illiterate Irishman "Dear Sor" if that is the right reading, the writings I don't think are the same.

But it is still a good question why try and appear illiterate, if that is what the author did (and I think that there are suggestions he did).

[Rosella]

If the writer of the Lusk letter and the 'Dear Boss' communication were two separate individuals there wouldn't be a problem. One, maybe a journalist, was educated, the other, as you can see from the general layout and penmanship, was probably semi-literate.

[MayBea]

Hi intheshadows.

Saucy Jack was the postcard. From Hell was the Lusk Letter.

Far from being an uneducated work, I see From Hell employing insidious Jokerish Gamesmanship.

[intheshadows]

In the first letter received from Jack the Ripper 'Dear Boss', he appears to be a well educated individual in the way he writes and his layout, ending the letter with 'Yours truly'. However, in the following postcard that is sent to George Lusk there are numerous grammatical and spelling errors. The handwriting on both the letter and postcard are identical so we know (if not assume) that it is defiantly from Jack the Ripper or at least the same person.

My question is: Why did he feel the need to disguise the fact that he was educated?

LMS