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It's just my opinion -- and every big gun rejects this line of argument as a travesty -- but I think Mac practised at muddying pools.
He did it quite alone, all to protect the Druitts, the Yard's rep, and his own role -- and because it was fun in a schoolboyish-prankish way.
He told Abberline that the drowned man was Sanders, that the young medical student -- who really was the subject of a Home Office Report -- had taken his own life in the Thames.
He told Littlechild, perhaps after Tumblety was safely dead in 1903, that the American 'Sychopathia Sexualis' was 'believed' to have killed himself after arriving in France (thus neatly disposing of Andrew's Tumblety mission in Canada).
He told Anderson, in 1895, that 'Kosminski', until then just another name from the house search list of 1888, had been sectioned in March of 1889 after trying to knife his sister, that his family 'suspected the worst', that he was 'soon after' deceased, and that -- this time truthfully -- that the madman masturbated like there was no tomorrow (Swanson arguably repeated, rather than initiated this opinion).
He told Tom Divall that the murderer had fled to the States, that he was put into an asylum, and died shortly after. Then there were no more murders.
He told Griffiths that 'Aberconway' was a copy of a definitive document of state, and that police were preparing to arrest the English doctor suspect, and thus knew at the time that Kelly was the final victim.
He told Sims, that the doctor was within hours of being arrested, and that he was an affluent, unemployed recluse who had been 'twice' sectioned for wanting to kill harlots -- and it was a scandalous blunder that the state had let him back out onto the streets.
He told the press in 1913 that he knew the fiend's true identity but would never tell it, and had destroyed all the relevant documentation. Of course he had told a gentleman reporter -- in Sims -- fourteen years before, and he didn't destroy anything.
In his 1914 memoirs, he came close to fessing up: the Polish Jew and the Russian doctor are nothing, the American suspect is nothing, the police were clueless between late 1888 and early 1891. The suicided suspect -- definitely a Gentile and not a Jew -- had never been sectioned, was not confirmed as a medical man with 'anatomical knowledge', and yet was omnipotent against the state except for his own vile illness, which finally broke him, and yet he didn't kill himself on the same evening as the final murder.
Even if my earlier theorising is wrong, I still argue that if you just take the 1914 source, the de-facto third version of the 'memo' as the definitive Ripper source -- because it was the one public document under Mac's own knighted name -- then it dovetails both with Farquharson (but not his error) and the precious little we know of the real Druitt.
It's just my opinion -- and every big gun rejects this line of argument as a travesty -- but I think Mac practised at muddying pools.
He did it quite alone, all to protect the Druitts, the Yard's rep, and his own role -- and because it was fun in a schoolboyish-prankish way.
He told Abberline that the drowned man was Sanders, that the young medical student -- who really was the subject of a Home Office Report -- had taken his own life in the Thames.
He told Littlechild, perhaps after Tumblety was safely dead in 1903, that the American 'Sychopathia Sexualis' was 'believed' to have killed himself after arriving in France (thus neatly disposing of Andrew's Tumblety mission in Canada).
He told Anderson, in 1895, that 'Kosminski', until then just another name from the house search list of 1888, had been sectioned in March of 1889 after trying to knife his sister, that his family 'suspected the worst', that he was 'soon after' deceased, and that -- this time truthfully -- that the madman masturbated like there was no tomorrow (Swanson arguably repeated, rather than initiated this opinion).
He told Tom Divall that the murderer had fled to the States, that he was put into an asylum, and died shortly after. Then there were no more murders.
He told Griffiths that 'Aberconway' was a copy of a definitive document of state, and that police were preparing to arrest the English doctor suspect, and thus knew at the time that Kelly was the final victim.
He told Sims, that the doctor was within hours of being arrested, and that he was an affluent, unemployed recluse who had been 'twice' sectioned for wanting to kill harlots -- and it was a scandalous blunder that the state had let him back out onto the streets.
He told the press in 1913 that he knew the fiend's true identity but would never tell it, and had destroyed all the relevant documentation. Of course he had told a gentleman reporter -- in Sims -- fourteen years before, and he didn't destroy anything.
In his 1914 memoirs, he came close to fessing up: the Polish Jew and the Russian doctor are nothing, the American suspect is nothing, the police were clueless between late 1888 and early 1891. The suicided suspect -- definitely a Gentile and not a Jew -- had never been sectioned, was not confirmed as a medical man with 'anatomical knowledge', and yet was omnipotent against the state except for his own vile illness, which finally broke him, and yet he didn't kill himself on the same evening as the final murder.
Even if my earlier theorising is wrong, I still argue that if you just take the 1914 source, the de-facto third version of the 'memo' as the definitive Ripper source -- because it was the one public document under Mac's own knighted name -- then it dovetails both with Farquharson (but not his error) and the precious little we know of the real Druitt.
But libel wouldn't be a considerations with a private report in police files, which is why they were kept closed for 100 years. I expect we've both seen enough police reports to know the degree of speculation they sometimes contain! But able to prove it or not, Macnaghten still wouldn't have named Druitt in public. The police got hauled over the coals for saying they'd caught the Yorkshire Ripper, even though they had and knew they had.
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