Did Anderson Know

[Natalie Severn]

It's been pointed out to you three times now that this is not true. At Colney Hatch the diagnosis was "Mania"; at Leavesden it was "Dementia Secondary".

How long was Aaron Kosminski in Colney Hatch?Three years 1891-1894.
How long was he at Leavesdon? 1894-1919 ?

Twenty -five years.The clear record is "Dementia" from 19th April 1894- 1919

Touche

[Jeff Leahy]

Norma

Dementia as we know it today is very unlikely to have been the case in a 22 year old man (though I except not totally impossible). In many ways this is the classic period for psychotic episodes to start. Aaron was suffering some form of Schizophrenia, you're simply gasping at straws now.

Unfortunately Aaron's records are little more than updates on his physical condition they are not indicators to his mental health or state of mind. Besides this is starting to move off topic and I have noticed that SPE and Begg are discussing Anderson else where, and I'd like to keep up with what they have to say.

Jeff

[Chris]

How long was Aaron Kosminski in Colney Hatch?Three years 1891-1894.
How long was he at Leavesdon? 1894-1919 ?

Twenty -five years.The clear record is "Dementia" from 19th April 1894- 1919

Touche

Well, if the idea is that you don't start the clock until the diagnosis was changed, I suppose in that sense you can say "For twenty five years his diagnosis was unchanged" - because we have a record of only a single diagnosis made at Leavesden.

But the facts remain that the initial diagnosis in 1891 was not "Dementia", but "Mania", and that diagnosis did change, probably three years after that.

[Stephen Thomas]

If Anderson was telling the truth why did so many of his contemporaries disagree with him? Why should Anderson have been the only policeman to know the true facts of the matter?

Hi Simon

Perhaps because it was supposed to be a secret.

[Phil Carter]

Hi Stephen,

Then he wouldn't have said anything to anybody....ever!

best wishes

Phil

[Simon Wood]

Hi Stephen,

I'm certain it was supposed to be a secret, and Anderson pointing a finger at an unnamed Jew/Polish Jew in the interests of his own self-aggrandizement made it stay that way.

Regards,

Simon

[Stephen Thomas]

Hi Stephen,

Then he wouldn't have said anything to anybody....ever!

Hi Phil

I'm only suggesting that Anderson, with one foot in the grave and feeling a little mischievous, just may have spilled the beans contrary to orders.

All the best

[Simon Wood]

Hi Stephen,

Let's agree that Anderson did spill the beans "contrary to orders". As all his contemporaries disagreed with him, this still leaves him in the unlikely position of being the one and only policeman in full possession of the facts.

Regards,

Simon

[The Good Michael]

Let's agree that Anderson did spill the beans "contrary to orders". As all his contemporaries disagreed with him, this still leaves him in the unlikely position of being the one and only policeman in full possession of the facts.

If he spilled the beans, that means all the others lied. The only likely scenario is that Anderson said what he believed. It doesn't make it true, but it also doesn't make him a liar. So where are we? Nowhere.

Mike

[robhouse]

"All his contemporaries disagreed with him"... except Swanson. Will you agree with this?

[Natalie Severn]

"All his contemporaries disagreed with him"... except Swanson. Will you agree with this?

With due respect Rob,Swanson and the margin/end paper -nalia area are a bit of a domestic doodle you know.They read for all the world like he was seated by the fire at home, remembering the good old days with dear old Robbie when he started to ponder about who it could possibly be that dear old Robbie was referring to , and as he nodded off----it suddenly came to him ,like dear old Abou Ben Adam"s roll call. ---why Kosminski was his name!

[robhouse]

Natalie,

It does not read like that at all. But I have come to realize that you are so biased against Anderson and Swanson, (and Kozminski as a suspect) that nothing... not even the most basic of facts... can penetrate the wall you have put up around your beliefs.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Rob,

I will agree with this the moment the authenticity of the Swanson 'endpaper marginalia' is established beyond all reasonable doubt.

Regards,

Simon

[Jeff Leahy]

Hi Rob

Yeah, but as a Hollywood plot line you can just imagine Morgan Freeman with a warm checked blanket around his knee’s, breaking his pencil and exclaiming “does anyone have this in purple?”

Jeff

PS one step closer.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Jeff,

Not even near.

Regards,

Simon