Geoprofile of Jack the Ripper reveals Tabram and Nichols connection.

[Abby Normal]

Geographic Profile + Hutchinson's claims are but one facet of what seems to be a case for Jacob Levy being a JtR candidate.

was Jacob levy rich?

[Batman]

Or Henry DeFries, the gasfitter on Middlesex Street.

Compared to the information we have on Jacob Levy, how many of these alternatives Petticoat lane locals compare?

Jacob Levy can be loosely described as an insane butcher who matches the short JtR description.

[Sam Flynn]

Or Henry DeFries, the gasfitter on Middlesex Street.

Henry de Fries? Did he eat chips, I wonder...

[Scott Nelson]

Or Henry DeFries, the gasfitter on Middlesex Street.

[Batman]

why are we talking about Jacob levy and peticoat lane in two separate threads at the same time? lol

Geographic Profile + Hutchinson's claims are but one facet of what seems to be a case for Jacob Levy being a JtR candidate.

[Abby Normal]

why are we talking about Jacob levy and peticoat lane in two separate threads at the same time? lol

[Batman]

The point I am making is that the fact of Hutchinson seeing A-man in Petticoat Lane doesn’t make it likely that A-man lived in the immediate area of the streets which hosted the market.

In the contemporary, the investigative assumption was that JtR did live in the immediate area.

I would think that applies to the men witnesses had seen. Including Hutchinson.

Therefore the Petticoat Lane man, if JtR, would live somewhere in the heart of Whitechapel.

Today we can call this the geographic profile. Hence this thread.

[MrBarnett]

Nobody in the contemporary is making that argument. Not even the press make the argument that Hutchinson couldn't possibly be telling the truth because of too many people being at the market.

That would have to be a brand new modern argument.

Hutchinson said he could identify him there. The press isn't phased by this and neither are investigators.

So what changed since then for you to make these claims now?

The point I am making is that the fact of Hutchinson seeing A-man in Petticoat Lane doesn’t make it likely that A-man lived in the immediate area of the streets which hosted the market.

[Batman]

A few hundred yards. But that's not the point.

Where do you think all these people lived?

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And this still photo doesn't show the lava flow of thousands of people that would have passed through the Lane on a market day.

Nobody in the contemporary is making that argument. Not even the press make the argument that Hutchinson couldn't possibly be telling the truth because of too many people being at the market.

That would have to be a brand new modern argument.

Hutchinson said he could identify him there. The press isn't phased by this and neither are investigators.

So what changed since then for you to make these claims now?

[Sam Flynn]

I'd be surprised if there were many of the JTR 'Cast of Thousands' who didn't go down the Lane on occasion. Maybe not Gull or Druitt, but the predominant working class element from far and wide.

Quite so. Petticoat Lane Market was, I daresay, one of the busiest "go-to places" in East London.

[MrBarnett]

Why just Jacob Levy? Why not Jacob Cohen, Jacob Samuelson, Jacob Weiss, Solomon Minkowsky, Moshe Abramsen...? He said, making up a handful of Jewish-sounding names by way of illustration. There were hundreds of Jewish men living in that area.

Edit: perhaps thousands, having seen Gary's helpful photograph

I'd be surprised if there were many of the JTR 'Cast of Thousands' who didn't go down the Lane on occasion. Maybe not Gull or Druitt, but the predominant working class element from far and wide.

[Sam Flynn]

What's the furthest distance away from this area to Jacob's home in meters for your best estimate?

Why just Jacob Levy? Why not Jacob Cohen, Jacob Samuelson, Jacob Weiss, Solomon Minkowsky, Moshe Abramsen...? He said, making up a handful of Jewish-sounding names by way of illustration. There were hundreds of Jewish men living in that area.

Edit: perhaps thousands, having seen Gary's helpful photograph

[MrBarnett]

What's the furthest distance away from this area to Jacob's home in meters for your best estimate?

A few hundred yards. But that's not the point.

Where do you think all these people lived?



And this still photo doesn't show the lava flow of thousands of people that would have passed through the Lane on a market day.

[Batman]

And they comprised the busiest street market in London - a large proportion of the East End population would have been regular users of Petticoat Lane.

What's the furthest distance away from this area to Jacob's home in meters for your best estimate?

[MrBarnett]

The adjoining streets would have had market stalls, too, as they do to this day.

And they comprised the busiest street market in London - a large proportion of the East End population would have been regular users of Petticoat Lane.