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apwolf has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
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Chris
you really got to learn to read my posts correctly and carefully, then you will see that I am as equally correct and careful in what I say, and quote.
Everything I say or quote is from material in the New York Times.
It is really quite simple to subscribe. You go to their very modern website, type in your email address, and then you have access to their entire archives.
I don't see why I should spend hours and days plundering this rich source of information whilst you hurl plastic fruit out of your pram at anyone walking past.
Do a bit of work for a change you lazy lump before you next bite the keyboard with your teeth.
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cgp100 has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
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---Quote (Originally by apwolf)---
Do a bit of work for a change you lazy lump before you next bite the keyboard with your teeth.
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I always become suspicious when someone makes an assertion on these boards, and when asked to back it up (i) claims they have already done so, but is unable to say where, (ii) says it's up to me to find the evidence for myself and (iii) becomes abusive.
So I'll ask again. What is the evidence for your assertion that "we know the Carlton Hotel incident was being discussed in 1904, by Scotland Yard, by the American Embassy and by the English press"?
Chris Phillips
cgp100 has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
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Let's clear this up...
The Carlton Hotel incident with the bellboy was not being discussed by the American Embassy and by the English Press in 1904.
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Many thanks for clearing this up!
Chris Phillips
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has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
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'This whole thing about the American Embassy, the London Press, and Scotland Yard had absolutely nothing to do with the whipping of a bellboy at the Carleton Hotel, where Thaw was staying alone at the time.'
Go back, JM, read my post again, and you will see that I never said it was.
I never mentioned the whipping of a bellboy at all. I said that the Thaw's activities whilst in London were investigated by those three agencies, as they were.
The thrust of my argument has been all along that the bellboy incident would have come up in other sources considering the intense interest shown in their general activities in London in 1903, but it doesn't... not a mention.
Do you honestly think that the 'Throne' in 1907 would not have generated a storm about the whipping of a poor English bellboy by a mad American millionaire in a London hotel in 1903?
Of course they would; and they investigated the circumstances of the Thaw's stay in London in that year very carefully indeed.
You know a grip on reality here would do everyone a bit of good.
After Thaw had tied this bellboy to a bedstead, beat him mercilessly with a horse whip until he bled profusely all over the place, then released him, bunged him a bath and rubbed salt all over his wounds... what do you think, JM, that Thaw did with his battered and bleeding bellhop?
Remembering that Thaw found himself in one of the busiest hotels in Europe, corridors and rooms full of influential guests and busy co-workers of the battered, bruised and bleeding bellhop.
Did Thaw send him on his way with a cable for the New York Times, clutching his stolen sovereign for which he had almost paid for with his life?
Did the lad arrive at reception and did reception say to him 'Bejesus! What the hell happened to you?'
And did the lad whimper and say 'nothing'?
Imagine you have just been beaten half to death for a single sovereign that you have just stolen, you are covered in whip whelts, bleeding and itching from the salt in those wounds, and this has been done by an American millionaire.
You are not sitting on your arse anymore, you are sitting on a ****ing fortune.
Who would the management of the hotel believe?
The bleeding boy covered in whip marks?
Or the man who claims he whipped the boy because he stole a sovereign from him?
One can imagine the chief inspector from Scotland Yard, called in to investigate the matter.
'Now then Mister Thaw, so you have whipped and beaten this young boy to within an inch of his life, and then salted him down like some young cod, because he stole a sovereign off you?'
'That's correct, officer.'
'Well buggar me, pass me the whip I'll give 'im some me good self!' exclaims the good officer.
The bellboy had god on his side; and you boys can ram as many square pegs into as many round holes as you like, but I ain't in the mood for sugar sweet.
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This thread is located at http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=5512
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Chris
you really got to learn to read my posts correctly and carefully, then you will see that I am as equally correct and careful in what I say, and quote.
Everything I say or quote is from material in the New York Times.
It is really quite simple to subscribe. You go to their very modern website, type in your email address, and then you have access to their entire archives.
I don't see why I should spend hours and days plundering this rich source of information whilst you hurl plastic fruit out of your pram at anyone walking past.
Do a bit of work for a change you lazy lump before you next bite the keyboard with your teeth.
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cgp100 has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
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---Quote (Originally by apwolf)---
Do a bit of work for a change you lazy lump before you next bite the keyboard with your teeth.
---End Quote---
I always become suspicious when someone makes an assertion on these boards, and when asked to back it up (i) claims they have already done so, but is unable to say where, (ii) says it's up to me to find the evidence for myself and (iii) becomes abusive.
So I'll ask again. What is the evidence for your assertion that "we know the Carlton Hotel incident was being discussed in 1904, by Scotland Yard, by the American Embassy and by the English press"?
Chris Phillips
cgp100 has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
This thread is located at http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=5512
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---Quote (Originally by JMenges)---
Let's clear this up...
The Carlton Hotel incident with the bellboy was not being discussed by the American Embassy and by the English Press in 1904.
---End Quote---
Many thanks for clearing this up!
Chris Phillips
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has just posted in the Littlechild, Chief Inspector John George forum of Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Forums under the title of Littlechild and The Strange Case of Harry Thaw.
This thread is located at http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=5512
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'This whole thing about the American Embassy, the London Press, and Scotland Yard had absolutely nothing to do with the whipping of a bellboy at the Carleton Hotel, where Thaw was staying alone at the time.'
Go back, JM, read my post again, and you will see that I never said it was.
I never mentioned the whipping of a bellboy at all. I said that the Thaw's activities whilst in London were investigated by those three agencies, as they were.
The thrust of my argument has been all along that the bellboy incident would have come up in other sources considering the intense interest shown in their general activities in London in 1903, but it doesn't... not a mention.
Do you honestly think that the 'Throne' in 1907 would not have generated a storm about the whipping of a poor English bellboy by a mad American millionaire in a London hotel in 1903?
Of course they would; and they investigated the circumstances of the Thaw's stay in London in that year very carefully indeed.
You know a grip on reality here would do everyone a bit of good.
After Thaw had tied this bellboy to a bedstead, beat him mercilessly with a horse whip until he bled profusely all over the place, then released him, bunged him a bath and rubbed salt all over his wounds... what do you think, JM, that Thaw did with his battered and bleeding bellhop?
Remembering that Thaw found himself in one of the busiest hotels in Europe, corridors and rooms full of influential guests and busy co-workers of the battered, bruised and bleeding bellhop.
Did Thaw send him on his way with a cable for the New York Times, clutching his stolen sovereign for which he had almost paid for with his life?
Did the lad arrive at reception and did reception say to him 'Bejesus! What the hell happened to you?'
And did the lad whimper and say 'nothing'?
Imagine you have just been beaten half to death for a single sovereign that you have just stolen, you are covered in whip whelts, bleeding and itching from the salt in those wounds, and this has been done by an American millionaire.
You are not sitting on your arse anymore, you are sitting on a ****ing fortune.
Who would the management of the hotel believe?
The bleeding boy covered in whip marks?
Or the man who claims he whipped the boy because he stole a sovereign from him?
One can imagine the chief inspector from Scotland Yard, called in to investigate the matter.
'Now then Mister Thaw, so you have whipped and beaten this young boy to within an inch of his life, and then salted him down like some young cod, because he stole a sovereign off you?'
'That's correct, officer.'
'Well buggar me, pass me the whip I'll give 'im some me good self!' exclaims the good officer.
The bellboy had god on his side; and you boys can ram as many square pegs into as many round holes as you like, but I ain't in the mood for sugar sweet.
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