Dissertation- A curious find in Goulston Street by Derek Osborne

[Sunny Delight]

I found this to be an interesting read and thought it might be worth further exploration. This is on the Wiki under Dissertations. I wanted to sight Paragraph 7.

A Further source online is " Policing the Ghetto- Jewish East End 1880 to 1920" by David Englander.

" If the Ripper had really sought to blame the Jews for his crimes, why would he choose such an insignificant place for that purpose? Better by far to leave such a condemnation at the scene of one of his crimes, where the impact could have been far greater..."

A fair question. But then I asked myself why Charles Warren was adamant about erasing the message. In other words was this an insignificant location? Did the location represent anything pertaining to the killer or his crimes? Did the killer write it? Does the location answer that or is it easier to say its just a coincidence?

Would a Constable see a white apron in the darkness but not writing in chalk on a black background right above it? Its possible. But for the sake of argument lets assume the Killer of Eddowes wrote the message.

" The Jewes are the men who will be blamed". Was this meant to mean All Jews or just Immigrant Jews who started arriving in 1886 out of the Prussian purge? Who would this statement draw attention to? Would it include the Anglo Jews who had little affinity for the migrants either. Or is it as simple as a Gentile implicating Jews after he murdered another Gentile prostitute in a once again predominantly Jewish area?

The Apron without any doubt was deposited by the killer of Eddowes within the roughly 50 minute window after Eddowes body is found. The GSG presents a real dilema if the killer wrote it. Why would the killer implicate the migrant Jews and draw attention to them causing a potential riot? Or would Police believe it to be a false flag and that a gentile was trying to pass off blame?

In 1888 Charles Booth had assistance from Edmund Reid and several others in walking all the Streets of Whitechapel and developing Demographics. The Apron and GSG were in fact planted in the very heart if the Jewish Quarter. Its not hard to understand Charles Warrens reason for erasing it. Written in a good schoolboys hand would reveal the killer to likely be educated in English. Not a migrant who could not write or speak English.

The Police in this case had a distinct disadvantage in dealing with the migrant Jews of Whitechapel. They did not understand Yiddish. In fact it was the Jewish Board of Guardians through the Rothschilds financial power controlling the entire Jewish equation in Whitechapel. The Police were in effect dealing directly with the Board in Civil matters. As Booth illustrates the Anglo Jewish Middle Class could be found along Commercial Road and Petticoat Lane- Wentworth St and Goulston and also at Middlesex' Aldgate and Whitechapel Rd, with the Migrants heading East throughout the smaller roads along Old Montague and towards London Hospital. The Socialist Class of Migrants were headed off in the area of Berner and Batty Street as well as Fieldgate.

As with everything in this case the GSG and Apron raise more questions than answers. However, considering the bias towards the Jewish Migrants the GSG would have had the desired effect if the word in the Market area ( where it was written) got out. The target would no doubt be the Migrants eventhough Wentworth Dwellings had Anglo Jews as well as migrants.

If the killer wrote GSG, in English, one would be hard pressed to believe a migrant Jew was JtR. It would make little sense to implicate your own. Who would the Police have expected wrote this? Yiddish was written all over Whitechapel. Would the killer be versed in writing in English, a double negative, if they were a migrant?

Booths work reveals that the Jewish migration path by street was more of a wave. Hanbury Street, Bucks Row and Berner Street were included in that path.

The few witnesses and the GSG tie the Jewish community to the Whitechapel Murders. The changing Demographics illustrate the murder locations that were largely Jewish as opposed to the Dutch, German, Italian and Irish exclusion zones. None of the witnesses described a Migrant Jewish person with an impoverished look, dark complexion, high cheekbones and larger lips. But they were in fact that distinguishable.

Could the GSG point to motive? The killer wanting to implicate the Jewish Immigration Class after being seen by Long and Schwartz and then 3 Jewish men at Church Passage? They would have been a perfect Scapegoat. He knew he was seen and needed to draw attention away from himself?

We have seen in recent times rampant racism with hotels housing migrants or asylum seekers being attacked, people attempting to put them on fire. Attacking Police. All with the help of social media.

The GSG posed a similar risk to the Whitechapel Police. That graffitti could have been seen by people who may then have spread it to their friends who spread it to their friends, who spread it to their friends etc etc etc. Ever heard of Chinese Whispers? By the time it would have got around Whitechapel no doubt the graffitti would have read something like this:

"The Jews are the men that will not be blamed for something they are responsible for". Setting off a large scale riot against Jews in the area.

[Patrick Differ]

I think that the meaning of the GSG is unclear, but one thing is for sure: it mentions Jews, but doesn't mention immigrant Jews.

Hi Lewis- i first thought the message waa unclear until you realize the way it is written means basically the same thing no matter how you cut it..

If its an accusation- it means the Jews did it.
If its a statement if resignation- the Jews are going to be blamed no matter what..actually means the sane thing.

That said- one might ask why a Jewish person would implicate another Jewish person ( who refused to testify against a fellow Jew?)...that evidently happened.

What benefit would a non Jewish person get out of an accusation against Jews in writing , where he also dropped an apron ( actual physical evidence)?

I just murdered Eddowes, here is her apron, and the Jews either did it or will get blamed anyway.
Does this mean that JtR admits to being Jewish? ( A Jewish witness refuses to testify against his own.

Was there a difference between Anglo Jewish perception and Immigrant Jews, especially the impoverished class of Polish Jews out of Prussia? Did the Anglo Jews consider themselves Englishman first? That appears to be the case.

DId the GSG message include Anglo Jews? Or just the Immigrants? The Authorities had no clue. No Englishman could commit such atrocities.