Abberline photo.

[doris]

I have read that no photo of Abberline is though to be extant.

Is that really true?

Has noone looked through all the Monte Carlo 'papers when he was worked there for 3 years as a Pinkerton man and achieved great things to see if any 'paper had a picture of him?

doris

PS I just wondered about the writing of newspaper.
I have always written it as newspaper or 'paper, showing that something is missing when one writes paper.

Are there any english pedants here who could proffer advice?

[Mike Covell]

It is quite possible that the image of H-Division, presented in Jack the Ripper- Scotland Yard Investigates shows Abberline.

There has also been much debate over the years, and an article appeared in Ripper Notes issue 26 regarding the possibility of another face in the crowd picture.

This is one of the suggested men, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...RLINE-CROP.jpg

And there is a thread on this site featuring images too,

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=3578

[Mitch Rowe]

Ah! The shabby/genteel look!

[Bob Hinton]

Photograph of Abberline

Due to the work he was doing in Monte Carlo I think it highly unlikely that Abberline or Pinkertons would have wanted his picture in the papers.

However the one place where there would be a photograph of him is in the Pinkerton files as they always photographed their agents to enable the various offices to establish identity.

I did contact Pinkertons years ago but they wanted quite a hefty fee to search their archives for it.

I think the best way to get them to look for it would be for some of our cousins to start a campaign (Freedom of Information ?) to get Pinkertons to cough up. After all they would get tremendous publicity out of it.

By the way I think 'paper' is perfectly acceptable, I believe that the vast majority of people know what you mean when you say 'paper.' It's all in the context. If you said 'I saw in yesterdays paper' I believe everyone would know you are referring to a newspaper. If however you said 'I have just hung some pretty paper on my wall' I don't think they will assume you are using page 3 of The Sun to decorate your room, oh I don't know though.

[DVV]

Hi all,

must say that "Rumbelow's Abberline" is very unlikely to me.

Amitiés,
David

[The Grave Maurice]

PS I just wondered about the writing of newspaper.
I have always written it as newspaper or 'paper, showing that something is missing when one writes paper.

Just paper is fine, Doris; the word doesn't require an apostrophe...although using the full word in the third sentence of your post would avoid possible confusion.

[Stephen Thomas]

PS I just wondered about the writing of newspaper.
I have always written it as newspaper or 'paper, showing that something is missing when one writes paper.

Are there any english pedants here who could proffer advice?

Hi Doris

'Paper' of course, is a slang contraction of 'Newspaper' which is commonly used in conversation in English speaking countries but usually best avoided in print. For instance, on this site one would say 'The Times' or 'The Times newspaper' and not 'The Times paper'

[doris]

Thanks everybody for your replies.

I know it wouldn't help a jot in any real manner, but I love to see pictures of people that I read about.

The best I have managed to come up with is a newspaper drawing that is supposed to be Abberline, showing a chap with mutton-chop whiskers.

doris

[corey123]

doris,

That picture Mike mentioned shows possibally two men who could be Abberline.

I personally think the man shown on Wiki is Sergent Godley.

Yours truly