Access to Scotland Yard Files

[Monty]

Pick up information based on hearsay or his uncorroborated personal opinion which it must have been as their is no original recorded source to corroborate Littlechilds statement from anyone involved in the other investigations and in particular the ripper one.

You only have to look at what the various officers said in later years all suggesting different names for suspects none coming up with the same name, so easy to do then 10-15 years later and now modern day researchers get sucked in by what they read

Kosher as in for real I think you know that anyway

three categories of suspects
1.Likely
2 Prime
3.Persons of interest, most suspects only fall into this catergory

All suspects are hearsay.

Just because we are not aware as to the full nature of whatever damning evidence is held on Tumblety, doesn't mean it did not exist.

The majority of suspects named by the police official are, as you say, personal opinion, often made in press interviews. All apart from Tumblety and Kosminski, who are named in private correspondence, and in a personal document. This is telling, as there was is no pressure to name them at all.

I do know what kosher means, I'm asking what does it take to be a 'kosher suspect'?

I agree with your (and the general) definition of suspects, yet, as you state, they are still suspects, just varying degrees.

Littlechild does not state Tumblety was JtR, he merely lays him out as a possibility. As does Stewart Evans and Gainey. A lot of people struggle to comprehend that.

Anyway, this is off topic now.

Monty

[Monty]

Duplicate...again!

[Phil Carter]

There are various examples in the MEPO files of references to the Criminal Investigation Department being involved in the hunt for the murderer. Many are signed by J. Monro.

Phil

[Bridewell]

But of course Littlechild stands alone with that does he not ? Not one other mention of Tumblety as a Ripper suspect in police files.

So, because only one senior police officer mentions Tumblety as a suspect, it doesn't count? How many would need to have done so before Tumblety met this new criterion of yours? Would you be playing down the significance of the Littlechild letter if the name mentioned had been Feigenbaum? I suspect not.

We must not forget much of what Littlechild wrote has been proved to be wrong which suggests it was either hearsay or he was trying to appease the reporter which seems the most likely.

Trevor, we've all been proved wrong on occasions, but that doesn't mean that we're wrong all the time now does it?
Littlechild was a senior police officer at the time of the Ripper murders and mentions, in the letter which bears his name, that "Dr T" was a suspect. Therefore - unless you are arguing that this is not a reference to Tumblety - Tumblety was a contemporaneous suspect.