Case Solved: it was Oscar Wilde!!

[Uncle Jack]

Bernard Shaw was a copycat.

No way! All the evidence points towards Madame Helena Blavatsky being the copycat Ripper. She was working with Queen Victoria to cover up their scandulous lesbian affair that would rock the monarcy. And don't forget the various individuals that knew of the secret, including Virginia Woolfe, Lewis Carroll, Aleister Crowley and Joseph Merrick.

"I'm a celebrity Ripper suspect, get me outta here!!"

[Stephen Thomas]

No way! All the evidence points towards Madame Helena Blavatsky being the copycat Ripper. She was working with Queen Victoria to cover up their scandulous lesbian affair that would rock the monarcy.

You've obviously been misinformed Uncle dear. Victoria was having an affair with Billy Connelly.

[Sam Flynn]

Bernard Shaw was a copycat.

...you're thinking of TS Eliot, me old possum

[Tom_Wescott]

This theory makes the most sense. And it proves that Stride was killed by the Ripper (Wilde). She was found with her head in the gutter, a copy of the Star in her bonnet. And what was it Wilde said? We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars. Hmmmmm. Even Fisherman can't find fault with this thesis!

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Sam Flynn]

And what was it Wilde said? We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars.

Now, if he'd actually said "We're all in the gutter, but only one of us is eating the bread", he might have been on to something.

[Robert]

Dear Bosie

I keep on hearing the police have caught me....

[Moriarty]

...you're thinking of TS Eliot, me old possum

At one point I did consider Eliot as a suspect. It would certainly establish the oft-claimed "American connection". But Eliot was a Tory of the "one nation" stripe, and frankly they would never be capable of such a thing.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Moriarty!

All right, a perfect go for a Hollywood script-writer!

Oh-oh... how does OW fit to the eye-witness descriptions?

All the best
Jukka

[Moriarty]

Hello Moriarty!

All right, a perfect go for a Hollywood script-writer!

Oh-oh... how does OW fit to the eye-witness descriptions?

All the best
Jukka

See talking point (1).

[Fisherman]

Tom Wescott writes:

"This theory makes the most sense. And it proves that Stride was killed by the Ripper (Wilde). She was found with her head in the gutter, a copy of the Star in her bonnet. And what was it Wilde said? We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars. Hmmmmm. Even Fisherman can't find fault with this thesis!"

Yes I can! Using Wilde, even: "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

The best, Tom!
Fisherman

[fido]

Add to that Wilde and Kipling had both been in America the previous year, so who can doubt they met and plotted it together? "The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot" shows that Kip.ling had been checking out the lives of streetwlkers).
Note, too, that Wilde was drawn attending the Parnell Commission. Obviously he wanted to be sure that Anderson wasn't on his trail.
I have always said that if, instead of trying to pursue honest historical search, I had cooked up a case for Oscar Wilde as jack teh Ripper, I'd bea rich man today.
Martin F

[Suzi]

Nice plan Martin-

Just found this Wilde quote which of course proves your points with a whiff of Patsy of course to ensure sales!!!!- 50% each??

'As long as a painter is a painter merely,he should not be allowed to talk of anything but mediums and *megilp,and on those subjects should be compelled to hold his tongue'-

Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock

Suzi x
*Not totally sure of the providence of a 'meglip'- or quite what one was / is!- MUST have a look in mi Chambers!!

BLIMEY! It's ''A vehicle used by pil painters,consisting of linseed oil and mastic varnish' C/o Chambers -Amazing!!! Oh well that's it then an artist! (Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)