The Indents in the GSG

[Trapperologist]

Is the present conjecture about an officer maybe writing the Graffito after finding the apron?

My theory would rest on the assumption that the Ripper asked Eddowes her name and she said, "Nothing". So it wouldn't have to be someone who had access to the police register.

[DJA]

You'd be safe from sharks.

[Trapperologist]

You'd be safe from sharks.

Which ones? The ones that make a serious indent?

[DJA]

The ones that don't eat clowns because they taste funny

[Trapperologist]

Eddowes would be safe from sharks by being anonymous?

The ones that don't eat clowns because they taste funny

It sounds like they don't like poetry either.

But I like your poet profile. Do you think it figures in other serial crimes as an indicator? And would you have profiled him as a poet even if you didn't have the GSG and/or yet have your poetry-loving suspect?

[DJA]

Henry Gawen Sutton "was a profound pathologist,a practical physician,and a man who who possessed in a manner I have never seen surpassed the clinical instinct ...... he was also a deep student of philosophy - Spinoza especially - and a great reader of the poets."

[Trapperologist]

Do you see interest in poetry as a symptom or an indicator? Or is it just a profile that matches the clues in this particular case only?

What I'm asking is if it's mutually inclusive in cases like this or is it exclusive to this one?

It's not exclusive to Sutton. I seem to recall that there are other suspects with poetic interests and ability....

[DJA]

Charles Dodgson?

[Trapperologist]

Francis Thompson
Lewis Carroll
James Kenneth Stephens
James Maybrick
Michael Maybrick?...

[Joshua Rogan]

If you're saying that the GSG was written by a poet, I think we have a new suspect - William Topaz McGonagall!

[Trapperologist]

You might be onto something, JR.

In 1884 [William Topaz McGonagall] consulted a Dr Murison, commemorated in a poem which tells us his problem.

“He told me at once what was ailing me;
He said I had been writing too much poetry,
And from writing poetry I would have to refrain.
Because I was suffering from inflammation of the brain.”

http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_mcgonagall.php

I personally prefer a "rubbish poet" as a suspect.

[DJA]

Francis Thompson
Lewis Carroll
James Kenneth Stephens
James Maybrick
Michael Maybrick?...

You guessed it the second time

[Trapperologist]

I guessed it? Finally?

You'd be safe from sharks.

'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'

[DJA]

Yep.

Dodgson was Carroll's real name.

[Trapperologist]

A Bias ? Detective Daniel Halse & The GSG

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=4732