Does the Goulston Street Graffito eliminate Jewish Immigrants as suspects?

[Lewis C]

I'd go one better and suggest that the graffiti was never there in the first place.

A fabrication by the police to push the rhetoric; all the while making the police look like the heroes of the hour, by them actively rubbing the chalk message out before it could cause offense to anyone.

It was never photographed.

Has anyone ever considered that the police made it up?

Hi RD,

For me, that doesn't add up. I don't think that the police would have thought that erasing it would have made them look like heroes. And I don't know what rhetoric it would have been intended to push. If they were going to do that, I think they'd invent a message whose meaning was clear.

[The Rookie Detective]

Hi RD,

For me, that doesn't add up. I don't think that the police would have thought that erasing it would have made them look like heroes. And I don't know what rhetoric it would have been intended to push. If they were going to do that, I think they'd invent a message whose meaning was clear.

I agree Lewis


I was just testing the water to see how it felt, and on reflection I concur with your thoughts here.

It doesn't add up, you're right.

Sometimes we have to flush out what doesn't feel right, to then hopefully end up with what does.

An emotional version of the classic "power of deduction."


I think the ambiguity of the GSG actually supports the idea that it was written by the Ripper, as with everything else (i.e. alleged written correspondences, and the way he appeared to have played and experimented with innerds) he comes across as a guy who liked to play sick games, or "funny little games."

If the Ripper did actually have a political agenda, then the GSG would have been clearer in terms of its intended meaning.
But instead, the author chooses (apparently) to deliberately make the GSG sound confusing and its meaning obscure.
That IMO indicates that the whole GSG thing was just a ruse intended to confuse, and just another way to show off what he could get away with without being caught.

Like a teenager pushing those boundaries and laughing in the face of authority.

[Geddy2112]

For me, that doesn't add up. I don't think that the police would have thought that erasing it would have made them look like heroes. And I don't know what rhetoric it would have been intended to push. If they were going to do that, I think they'd invent a message whose meaning was clear.

Hi Lewis

Do we know how many people, apart from the culprit actually saw the graffiti?