Globe obituary

[Chris]

Stewart Evans has posted an interesting selection of press articles relating to Anderson at jtrforums.com. One piece that caught my eye was an obituary from The Globe of 19 November 1918:

http://www.jtrforums.com/showpost.php?p=83016&postcount=23

This includes a brief paragraph on the Whitechapel Murders:
Sir Robert claimed that his department really knew the identity of the infamous "Jack the Ripper," who perpetrated so many murders in 1889. "Jack," he said, "is a Polish Jew. The necessary evidence for his conviction is unobtainable."

It may be my ignorance, but this was new to me, though I have seen the final sentence quoted from the Daily Telegraph of the same date in one of Scott Nelson's dissertations:

http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-isaac.html

What I found interesting is that - if the quotation is accurate - the use of the present tense implies that Anderson believed that the suspect was alive at the time he said this. That would contrast with Swanson's belief that Kozminski died shortly after entering Colney Hatch.

[Scott Nelson]

Thanks for posting this Chris. Anderson's son, Arthur Posonby Moore-Anderson wrote a tribute to his parents, Sir Robert Anderson and Lady Agnes Anderson (available on this site). In the link below to Chapter IV, we can find the following statement written by Arthur about his father's belief in the Ripper's identity:

"Sir Robert states as a fact that the man was an alien from Eastern Europe and believed that he had died in an asylum."

Possible significance: Sir Robert died in 1918, Aaron Kosminski in 1919.

http://www.casebook.org/ripper_media/rps.apmoore.2.html

[Chris]

In the link below to Chapter IV, we can find the following statement written by Arthur about his father's belief in the Ripper's identity:

"Sir Robert states as a fact that the man was an alien from Eastern Europe and believed that he had died in an asylum."

Thanks - that's a good point.

It would be helpful if we had some indication of when Anderson is supposed to have said "Jack is a Polish Jew" - though it doesn't sound to me like the kind of phrase he would have used in any case.