Assessing Cutbush

[FISHY1118]

A brilliant piece of analysis Fishy. You add one quote but don’t say who it’s by.

Compare what we know about Cutbush’s with what we know about the joke suspect Thompson. No reasonable person could look at Cutbush then look at Thompson and go for Thompson. It’s just not possible.

Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide by Christopher J. Morley There you Herlock .

[Herlock Sholmes]

Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide by Christopher J. Morley There you Herlock .

So Morley is the deciding judge? Tell me Fishy…do you concur with Morley’s assessment of Gull too?

[FISHY1118]

So Morley is the deciding judge? Tell me Fishy…do you concur with Morley’s assessment of Gull too?

Morleys assessment of Gull isnt anything that we dont already know Herkock and have discussed at length . What he doesnt say tho is that he was investigated by the police at the time and dismissed as a suspect . So whats your point ?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Morleys assessment of Gull isnt anything that we dont already know Herkock and have discussed at length . What he doesnt say tho is that he was investigated by the police at the time and dismissed as a suspect . So whats your point ?

Actually Fishy Cutbush was never dismissed as a suspect if you read the evidence correctly (or at all) or cleared by Scotland Yard of being JTR. All Mac said was that he thought Druitt, Kosminski and Ostrog were "more likely" to have been JTR than Cutbush. That’s all.

The main point of his memo was that the Sun had made some errors in its articles, particularly in respect of the knife and the images of mutilated women. But he still gives various reasons to think that Cutbush could have been JTR.

We know that the police investigated Cutbush for the JTR murders because Mac says that: "It was found impossible to ascertain his movements in the nights of the Whitechapel murders". So he was not cleared. They couldn't clear him. It was that there wasn't sufficient evidence to charge him.