whitechapel mortuary attendent is the man wot dunnit

[Ashkenaz]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6261360/Jack-the-Rippers-identity-finally-uncovered.html

Dont miss the discovery channel this sunday 11st October


Enjoy !

[Sam Flynn]

I'm glad I took the book out of my Amazon "pre-order" basket, now. Call me fickle, if you must

[steje73]

Well, I suppose he's more plausible than some suspects.

[miss marple]

Agree, Robert Mann certainly seems more plausible than the majority of suspects and fits the local working class demographic.He was on the spot and a bit odd. But ripperologists seem to prefer wasting space discussing 'suspects' who wern't even in Whitechapel at the time.
Miss Marple

[Ashkenaz]

I agree, he is looking a promising candidate. Does anyone know where he lived in 1888ish. I'm curious as to whether he fits in with the geographical profilers. He seems a good fit with the psychological profilers.

[miss marple]

Now Mann has his own thread, switching to it. Miss Marple

[Septic Blue]

Were the inmates of workhouses really allowed to roam the streets at all hours?

Of course, … they were not!

Mann appears to have lived most of his life in the facility that was the Whitechapel Union Workhouse from ~1842 to 1872, and the Whitechapel Union Infirmary thereafter. He is listed as either a resident 'inmate' or 'pauper' in each of the census-years 1851, 1871 and 1881.

Having been a mortuary attendant in the autumn of 1888, he had obviously been granted certain responsibilities. Perhaps he had also been granted a certain degree of passage, with which he was able to occasionally 'come-and-go'. But he most certainly would have been held accountable for his 'comings-and-goings'; and it is absolutely unthinkable that he would have been granted any sort of passage between the hours of midnight and 6:00AM.

Robert Mann is a non-starter!

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[Stewart P Evans]

Spoilsport

You old spoilsport Colin - you're almost as bad as me for goodness sake!

[Monty]

Well, thats that one up the spout then.

Monty

[steje73]

I agree, he is looking a promising candidate. Does anyone know where he lived in 1888ish. I'm curious as to whether he fits in with the geographical profilers. He seems a good fit with the psychological profilers.

Ah. Now then. I never said he was a promising candidate. Just more plausible than, for example, Lewis Carroll.

[Ashkenaz]

Ah. Now then. I never said he was a promising candidate.

I didn't say that you did say he was a promising candidate !