Jack The Rippers Real Name? Anyone Know Or Have Any Idea?

[Stewart P Evans]

Distant Days

Hello Lesley. Thank you for sharing. I think a panel of policemen voted Kosminski unanimously.
I think we all wish we knew what Sir Melville meant by the special "circs" in Aaron's case. What's your theory?
Cheers.
LC

You must mean the 1988 Cosgrove-Muerer documentary The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper hosted by Peter Ustinov. Actually there wasn't one police officer on the panel (unless you count Bill Waddell who was an ex-police officer).

Macnaghten actually wrote 'many circs', not 'special circs'. I'm not nit-picking, just trying to clarify the situation. And he does not specify 'Aaron', he refers merely to 'Kosminski'. If you watch the above documentary, which is very entertaining, it will be seen that 'Ripperology' has come a long way since the distant days of the centenary.

[Lesley-Jane]

Hello Lesley. Thank you for sharing. I think a panel of policemen voted Kosminski unanimously.

I think we all wish we knew what Sir Melville meant by the special "circs" in Aaron's case. What's your theory?

Cheers.
LC

Hello Lynn

My theory is the police couldn't prosecute Kosminsky because he wasn't fit to plead innocent or guilty due to being insane.

[Ashkenaz]

His name might have been Humphry John Smith.

No. His name was Percy Smythe Chumley Walker. I know because I have just uncovered his awful autobiography. I found it underneath the bedroom floorboards of my Victorian Cottage. It was in an old gladstone bag along with a rancid snail. Then again, it might have been half an old kidne.

My soon to be best seller should be out by xmas. Signed copies will be available for a modest surcharge..

[Captain Hook]

Just want to clarify something regarding my post #21...

When I said that some newbies deserve a thrashing, I meant that the newbie who started this thread was not amongst them! There's a big difference between a polite question and the stupid gumpf that some people come up with.

It was that Maibrik guy coz he wrote it all down in that book.

PHILIP

Philip,

I heartily agree and that's why I said we should be a little kinder to newbies. We were all newbies once. Well, most of us. I could think of some exceptions.

Cheers
Hook

[George Hutchinson]

Just want to clarify something regarding my post #21...

When I said that some newbies deserve a thrashing, I meant that the newbie who started this thread was not amongst them! There's a big difference between a polite question and the stupid gumpf that some people come up with.

It was that Maibrik guy coz he wrote it all down in that book.

PHILIP

[Graham]

Bloody hell, Sam: you DO know him!!

Graham

[Sam Flynn]

The Reverend Josiah Inkblot Scratchnipple was the vicar who presided at my wedding. He was an okay bloke, in certain ways. Where did you find his name?

... Rubber News

[poorhoney]

John "Jack" Diddles

[Graham]

Mr Werewolf Hunter,

First, have you ever caught any?

Second, let me quote you the poet John Donne:

Licence my roving hands, and let them go,
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safliest when with one man mann'd.

I think it was a touch of parody, but nevertheless Mr Donne lived from 1571 to 1631, and was able, apparently, to refer to America as being a country and so, presumably, those who lived there, native or not, were Americans.

It is the United States Of America that didn't exist before 1776.

Excuse me, must rush, I've just spotted another hair that needs splitting.

Graham

PS: regarding Lindsey's original post, I rather got the impression she was asking if there is any clue in the JtR letters as to the WM's first name, rather than asking if his actual identity has been established.

[Captain Hook]

there was some ding dong on another part of this forum that i said something
too about his comment that in 1650 the judge presiding
over a trial of witches was american... i just shook my head and reminded
him that america wasnt even created untill 1776 and that that judge was
a wart of the CATHOLIC CHURCH, not an american... there were no americans in 1650 excecpt the native indians.....LOL

whatcha goanna do... cant live with em, cant shoot em....gezzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hi WH,

What was created in 1776 was not America but the United States of America. The continent called America, which is composed of North, Central and South America, was never created as such. When the Europeans came across it and realised it was not the Indies they decided they had discovered it and named it America after one Amerigo Vespucci who people wrongly believed was the one who found it.

In 1650, smack in the middle of the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell was Lord Protector of England and the Catholic Church held no sway over the American Colonies - i.e., the thirteen British colonies on the East Coast of America. The witch trials in Salem, Massachussets, and other parts of the present USA were conducted under Puritan judges.

We all make mistakes.

Cheers
Hook

[Graham]

Sam,

For once I have to get serious with you. The Reverend Josiah Inkblot Scratchnipple was the vicar who presided at my wedding. He was an okay bloke, in certain ways. Where did you find his name?

Regards,

Seymour Titz

[Radical Joe]

What was Uri Geller doing in 1888? The guy can bend spoons and make broken watches work through mind power alone. What else was he capable of?

And the speed with which he moved from one TV studio to another when Michael Jackson died...

[Sam Flynn]

A few suggestions:

Kef Wahee Scrimshanker

Greevie Bogsocket

Mowgli Critical-Globes

Sanguiniferous Balsam

The Reverend Josiah Inkblot Scratchnipple

Borax Dippydong



Not serious ones, obviously. It's just that I had to get them off my chest

[lynn cates]

circs

Hello Lesley. Thank you for sharing. I think a panel of policemen voted Kosminski unanimously.

I think we all wish we knew what Sir Melville meant by the special "circs" in Aaron's case. What's your theory?

Cheers.
LC

[Lesley-Jane]

Hi All!

I'm new here...please be gentle with me!

Oh and in answer to the original question:

I believe Jack The Ripper to be Kosminsky.
I know a lot of you will disagree with me but that's my choice of suspect!