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Best place to store offal would be where there is other offal ?
Slaughter houses or butchers shops would be an ideal place.
Pat......................................
Are you referring to the fact that Lechmereīs mother was a catīs meat woman in the 1891 census? AOr are you saying the the killer was a butcher himself?
Yes i have a theory simply because when you look at the facts surrounding this issue they don't sit right.
But of course the implications of what i suggest are far reaching and in fact put a big dent in ripperolgy if proved to be true, and that's why so many don't want it to be true, because one third of the ripper mystery and myth that surrounds it would be destroyed, and then you would all have to get a life and go and get proper jobs and that wouldn't do would it?
Phil, are you feeling okay? I do worry about you sometimes.
Hello Stewart,
Thank you for asking.. feel fine! :-)
I thought a little light hearted none-too-serious input was called for...
Definition of "ego battles" really is quite good though.
And Monty, do be so kind as to refrain in what you call me or infer when referring to me. "Lap dog" isn't acceptable...especially as it clearly refers to me. Kindly drop the tone. It has personal content. I take your sense of the atrociously unfunny and uneducated personal jibes for what they actually present themselves as... The imagery best befits a playground bully, imo. Thank you.
Well al the other facts tend to show she wasn't .....
What facts, name one?
The thing that makes me laugh with you and some others on here is that when i post something you cherry pick the bits you think you can argue about and the other relevant an important facts never get a mention I wonder why that is ?
I seem to recall you accusing me of this, but like a handful of others on Casebook you seem to struggle with the difference between a fact, and your interpretation.
"But John, seriously, this has nothing whatsoever to do with Trevor Marriott's theories.. it has to do with some people attacking his personality when presenting those theories. That is totally different."
Are you 'kin serious Phil?
Have you read Trevors posts? And you really cannot pass judgement either.
The issue is Stewart, that Trevor has a theory on the apron which requires it not to be on Eddowes at time of death. So, to make the facts fit the theory, they are twisted or omitted.
Of course, you are fully aware of all this.
Shame Trevor and his lap dog aren't.
Monty
Yes i have a theory simply because when you look at the facts surrounding this issue they don't sit right.
But of course the implications of what i suggest are far reaching and in fact put a big dent in ripperolgy if proved to be true, and that's why so many don't want it to be true, because one third of the ripper mystery and myth that surrounds it would be destroyed, and then you would all have to get a life and go and get proper jobs and that wouldn't do would it?
Inspector McWilliam, in his report to the Home Office, got it wrong when he said that Eddowes was wearing the apron. He was present when the comparison was made with the piece found in Goulston Street at which time no mention was made by anyone present that Eddowes wasn't wearing the apron but was actually carrying two pieces. Have I got that right?
Lets stick to the issues you raised. Mcwilliam could only have compiled that report on what he was told not on what he saw for himself he did not see the apron on the body.
Of course there was no mention because when the body was stripped all they found as described was one piece of old white apron in her possessions. The GS piece had not been found at that time
Had she been wearing an apron it would have been described as an apron and would have been listed amongst her clothing. It was not till the Gs piece had been found that someone jumped to the conclusion that it must have been cut from the mortuary piece which at some point in the past it probablyhad but not by the killer.
Hutt an experienced City police officer was present at the inquest and gave evidence that he believed the apron produced in the court was the same as the one Eddowes was wearing on her release from Bishopsgate Street Police Station.
With this inquest anyone could have produced a washing up cloth and the officer would say what he said just to be "helpful"
Both men were experienced police officers but we have to believe that their statements are wrong and that some latter day theory is correct. I have given evidence in court hundreds of times and when some item (like the apron) is produced which appears to be the same as one you have seen at another time you use the word 'believe' it to be the same, as Hutt correctly did, and not pronounce unequivocally that it was the same.
So how many time have courts of juries not believed the testimony of police officers. Just because you are a police officer you are not beyond having what you say not believed. As i said in an earlier post the officers evidence has never been tested. I have highlighted a number or issues with it as to where it is questionable which you seem to not want to agree with.
Suffice to say that Eddowes was wearing an apron that night, a reading of the written record should make this obvious to anyone. But why rely on the written record that we have? Let's indulge in semantics, invent alternative scenarios that fly in the face of the evidence, re-invent history and indulge in our own fantasies.
Well al the other facts tend to show she wasn't but hey don't lets consider other relevant facts lets stick with the old theories because we have made a lot of money out of them over the years. To change ones view now would be a disaster and would tend to rock the old pedestal a bit
As to inventing fantasies you have been guilty of inventing at least one major one.
The thing that makes me laugh with you and some others on here is that when i post something you cherry pick the bits you think you can argue about and the other relevant an important facts never get a mention I wonder why that is ?
To quote you from the other day I cannot be bother to continue to argue over the same issues time and time again.
Well, itīs a rather obvious thought for somebody who favours the scenario with Lechmere perhaps keeping the innards as trophies at Pickfords.
However, we know from history that organ/trophy taking serial killers is that they like to do things with said trophies once they have taken them- to relive there fantasies. They would need a private place to do this. At work, lech may be able to store them safely re your jar idea, but realistically what could he do with them safely and not be caught? I imagine that the ripper liked to play with his trophies, heighten his sexual fantasies through fondling them, engaging in "solitary vices", perhaps even engage in cannibalism. His place of work obviously would not be a good place for this and his home with his wife/family only perhaps a slightly better place.
Thatīs fine, Abby - but it all boils down to your take on things. And it predisposes that we can work from the assumption that Lechmere had no private space at Pickfords.
Both things may be wrong.
He may only have wanted and needed the knowledge that he had these parts. Taking a quick peak may have done the trick for him.
Conversely, he must have been a trusted employee after twenty years of working for Pickfords. He may have had access to a space where he could have had privacy. He may have had keys to the premises. He may have been some sort of foreman, arriving early and in splendid isolation.
There are so many parameters that we do not know. If he was just another carman with no privacy avaliable, then the idea that he stored trophies at Pickfords is rather a useless one. If it was the other way around - different story.
That's why I brought up his mothers place. We also know that many serial killers who are trophy takers lived with/used their parents place for these purposes. If lechs mother was old, easily manipulated, senile etc. perhaps and it was an ideal place to use as his bolt hole?maybe she had shed he could access?
She gives another impression altogether, marrying three times (twice bigamously!), changing jobs, caring for one of his kids etcetera. And her lodgings would have been a bit off. No, my money is on him having it all along his working route; killing grounds, washing facilities and stash.
I know you said it is not necessary, but perhaps it is. It would go along way for me at least. I don't know her proximity to his work, home like you do, so maybe it would be a good exercise for you to work out if it seems feasale that he used his mothers place as a bolt hole. I know you have already put forth the idea that he was leaving his mothers place prior to the double event so it's no stretch to imagine its where he could have returned after kills.
I could imagine a scenario in which he killed on his way to work, stopped off at his mothers to store his trophies, continued on to work, to later return to his mothers place after work, to have fun with his trophies , before continuing home.
What do think? Did she live within close enough to his work and home to make this a possibility?
147 Cable Street, Abby - well out of his route to work. Itīs - interestingly - a very small stretch east-southeast to where the Pinchin Street torso was found.
"But John, seriously, this has nothing whatsoever to do with Trevor Marriott's theories.. it has to do with some people attacking his personality when presenting those theories. That is totally different."
Are you 'kin serious Phil?
Have you read Trevors posts? And you really cannot pass judgement either.
The issue is Stewart, that Trevor has a theory on the apron which requires it not to be on Eddowes at time of death. So, to make the facts fit the theory, they are twisted or omitted.
Thats hearsay McWilliams was not present when the body was stripped and the clothes documented.
he two pieces could not have been matched until much later in the day because Dr Phillips had the GS piece and he had not arrived at the mortuary before 5am
Thers is no dispute that the two pieces were matched
Nice try ! but thats not wortt the paper its written on
By now anyone with any idea of historical evidence should be aware that Eddowes was wearing the apron, a section of which was cut off by the murderer.
When you say it was hearsay as McWilliam (not McWilliams) wasn't present when the body was stripped, this is surely irrelevant and smoke and mirrors on your part. Others who were present would have told McWilliam that Eddowes was wearing the apron, it was an important point and the pieces were produced at the inquest as exhibits. Of course, hearsay evidence is admissible before a coroner's court, but McWilliam wrote it in his report for the information of the Home Secretary and the fact that it was hearsay (in that others told McWilliam) is irrelevant.
Hello Stewart,
"Ego battle". Definition. A battle of egos is a phrase used metaphorically to describe competitions that are based on pride and often entail prodigious and arrogant demonstrations of prowess. A type of dueling similar to a p*ssing contest, ego battles are often seen as an arrogant way to determine who is the "bigger man" (as far as being superior right in an argument) by a competitive methodology that is not especially productive. The idiom is usually used figuratively and often refer to forms of ego-driven battling in a pejorative manner.
Many thanks to Wikipedia.
I may be wrong in re-printing this so cannot be included in wanting to gain anything from it's reproduction in terms of being right or clever.
LOL haha.. etc etc etc..
Phil
Phil, are you feeling okay? I do worry about you sometimes.
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