William Bury website

[Harry D]

Thank you Wyatt. Here are my comments, re: Stride's murder:

Prostitutes would have been more cautious than usual.

Not necessarily. Beggars can't be choosers. Prostitutes still had to eat, drink and find a bed for the night. Unless he was frothing at the mouth and scraping two butcher knives together, I doubt they were that picky.

All of this suggests that she had a baseline level of comfort with him and that he was not a complete stranger to her.

I'm a little confused because this contradicts the previous statement. If Stride was familiar and comfortable around this punter, why was she struggling with him in the street?

… given that Stride was a prostitute and Bury appears to have been a user of prostitutes,

Bury was far from the only purveyor of prostitutes, and we lack proof that Bury visited whores in the Whitechapel area. He may have operated closer to home.

If Stride could ID him, that would have been a problem, as the police would then have been able to conduct an investigation of him

Why would Stride ID him? Prostitutes aren't in the habit of cooperating with police, particularly over something like a minor street scuffle. She would most likely deny or downplay what happened to withhold the fact she was soliciting that night.

I'm not convinced about Schwartz's account, I'm really not. There's something about it which doesn't add up.

[Busy Beaver]

Good website. Are you going to let us know how Bury is connected to Tabram, Nichols, Chapman, Eddowes and Kelly? Or are you planning a book to reveal this? I'm interested in the Stride theory, now you have to show the Bury link with the others to make me more convinced!

Cheers
Busy Beaver

[Wyatt Earp]

Thanks guys. By the way, Bury's bones turn 160 in May. If any of you missed it, Sue Black, who oversaw the mock retrial of Bury, and who had Bury's cervical vertebrae in her custody, left the University of Dundee last summer and is now an administrator at Lancaster University. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland...ntral-43988631

[John Wheat]

Great website Wyatt. Very good work.

[Abby Normal]

Very nice wyatt

[Wyatt Earp]

Thank you, sir.

[Sam Flynn]

Excellent work, Wyatt. Nice looking site, and very informative.

[Wyatt Earp]

Thread for discussion of material on the William Bury website. http://williambury.org/ (my thanks to Howard Brown for mentioning my website at JTR Forums).

Praise (both reasonable and unreasonable) and blame (reasonable only) both accepted.

The Stride murder is currently being discussed here on Casebook. I have three posts on the website related to the Stride murder.

For a plausible explanation of why Stride’s body wasn’t mutilated, see my post “Bury and the Stride Murder.” http://williambury.org/blog6/2017/11...stride-murder/

For a plausible explanation of why different knives were used on Stride and Eddowes, see my post “Two Knives and the Double Event.” http://williambury.org/blog6/2018/01...-double-event/

And to learn just how well William Bury aligns with the description given by Israel Schwartz, see my post “Schwartz and Eyewitness Memory.” http://williambury.org/blog6/2018/11...itness-memory/ (anyone here looking for a broad-shouldered man?)

Visitors to the website will also find the full text of a number of historical documents: the official trial notes from Bury’s trial, the Ellen Bury medical reports prepared by both the prosecution and defense medical teams, and the letter in which Bury confessed to murdering his wife.

If you haven’t been to the Bury website before, I hope you'll consider taking a look.