Lost police records & documents...............

[Simon Wood]

Hi David,

I have three of a kind.







I shall leave you to sort this out for yourself. This is my last post on Casebook or anywhere else. Illness and encroaching old age are taking their toll, and I have many other things I want to do in the years before the Grim Reaper comes a-knocking.

So, good luck to you all, and stop believing all the nonsense you've been told.

Regards,

Simon

[David Orsam]

I shall leave you to sort this out for yourself.

Well it's very easy and straightforward. 52893 was a standard Metropolitan Police file/correspondence reference (created in early September 1888) for the series of Whitechapel Murders, as shown in the police report in the third image above, and the top two images are cross-references to that file in the margin of a Special Branch register. All very dull really.

[DJA]

Hi David,

I have three of a kind.

[ATTACH]18277[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]18278[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]18279[/ATTACH]

I shall leave you to sort this out for yourself. This is my last post on Casebook or anywhere else. Illness and encroaching old age are taking their toll, and I have many other things I want to do in the years before the Grim Reaper comes a-knocking.

So, good luck to you all, and stop believing all the nonsense you've been told.

Regards,

Simon

Similar situation re age and health.

Could you hold off a bit longer until I divest myself of all popcorn shares and holdings!

Best of luck and thanks for the fun

[Scott Nelson]

Best wishes to you, Simon.

[Sam Flynn]

I shall leave you to sort this out for yourself. This is my last post on Casebook or anywhere else.

Thanks for your stimulating posts over the years, Simon. All the best.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Best wishes for the future Simon

[Joshua Rogan]

So long, and thanks for all the fishy findings.

[harry]

What do you call old Simon.

[Monty]

Well it's very easy and straightforward. 52893 was a standard Metropolitan Police file/correspondence reference (created in early September 1888) for the series of Whitechapel Murders, as shown in the police report in the third image above, and the top two images are cross-references to that file in the margin of a Special Branch register. All very dull really.

Tediously so.

Gotta love the attempt to throw confusion at the mundane.

Monty

[DarkPassenger]

Hi Dark Passenger,

The 1891 Census [5th April] provides a glimpse of the staff and types of patients then at the Seaside Home.

It was certainly not an environment into which you might risk sending Jack the Ripper, whether he was Kosher or Goy.

Regards,

Simon

Thanks for the tip - do you happen to have those details to hand?

[Michael W Richards]

It's readily excepted that the police records relating to the Whitechapel murders has over the years been pillaged by person or persons unknown and for what reason can only be guessed at.

I'm curious to know whether any of the missing documents have ever reemerged?


Also of interest would be, what happened to all the letters sent by "Jack" were they retained or disposed of?

I had heard from a confidential source that at least one unpublished letter has been seen framed in someones den.

[Bridewell]

Have other historical murder files been subject to the same types of loss?

Pierre

Police work generates gargantuan quantities of paper and storage is, and always has been, a problem. Weeding documents from historical files is not without precedent, especially when you reach the stage where those involved are almost certainly dead. In the 1970s and 1980s much of what remained went onto microfiche in my own Force and I imagine that was pretty standard procedure across the country. Evidence sometimes gets stored in unusual places too. I was once tasked with clearing out the attic at a town centre police station and found a .410 shotgun from a murder which had occurred 25 years earlier.

[Christian]

It's readily excepted that the police records relating to the Whitechapel murders has over the years been pillaged by person or persons unknown and for what reason can only be guessed at.

I'm curious to know whether any of the missing documents have ever reemerged?



Also of interest would be, what happened to all the letters sent by "Jack" were they retained or disposed of?

Don Rumberlow talks very interestingly about the files/ loss/ theft/ photos etc in the great book Scotland Yard Investigates!!

[Bridewell]

Don Rumberlow talks very interestingly about the files/ loss/ theft/ photos etc in the great book Scotland Yard Investigates!!

Thanks, Christian. I think I have that somewhere so I'll dig it out and refresh my memory.

[Christian]

Thanks, Christian. I think I have that somewhere so I'll dig it out and refresh my memory.

No problem some real interesting information and tales regarding old files-documents-photos!!