Robert Louis Stevenson

[ChrisGeorge]

It`s very easy to make fun of this theorie.
I think all of you are more interested in:
Did Astrakhan Man exist?
I think yes...
I think no...
Hum... let me see... maybe he exist!
Ok, maybe not!
And how many victims jack the ripper made.
Hum, 6, no 5, no no, only 2...
Hum...

Hello jsantos

For your theory to be given serious discussion, you have to provide some evidence that Robert Louis Stevenson should be considered as a suspect, that he was even in England at the time of the murders. Lacking that, it strikes me and others as well, that Stevenson is a fantasy suspect much like Lewis Carroll.

Best regards

Chris

[jsantos]

It`s very easy to make fun of this theorie.
I think all of you are more interested in:
Did Astrakhan Man exist?
I think yes...
I think no...
Hum... let me see... maybe he exist!
Ok, maybe not!
And how many victims jack the ripper made.
Hum, 6, no 5, no no, only 2...
Hum...

[Robert]

This story apparently includes an orangutan called Jack.
Case closed?

[GregBaron]

He fooled them all...

Aha! So Curious George did have a hand in it!

You could be onto something here FrankLoco.....notice how this image fits several witness descriptions........red tie....red kerchief.........all the same under dim lighting..................

Greg

[FrancoLoco]

Actually gentlemen, an orangutan committed the murders in the rue Morgue and quite frankly I consider him a viable suspect in the Whitechapel seriesGreg

Aha! So Curious George did have a hand in it!

[GregBaron]

The missing link...

Wow Chris, too bad Lawende et al didn't notice the earring.....that's the evidence that could have nailed the fiend........Darn...

Greg

[jsantos]

"Summary of The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette, 1894, by RLS, written in collaboration with stepson Lloyd Osbourne, on the Robert Louis Stevenson website."

"MY DEAR COLVIN, - Your pleasing letter RE THE EBB TIDE, to
hand. I propose, if it be not too late, to delete Lloyd's
name. He has nothing to do with the last half. The first we
wrote together, as the beginning of a long yarn. The second
is entirely mine; and I think it rather unfair on the young
man to couple his name with so infamous a work." - RLS words

[ChrisGeorge]

Actually, Greg....



Aubrey Beardsley illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue

[GregBaron]

Unsuspected ape from Whitechapel.....

Actually gentlemen, an orangutan committed the murders in the rue Morgue and quite frankly I consider him a viable suspect in the Whitechapel series……….in particular orangutans from Borneo have been known to favor deerstalker hats and have accents that can be confused with Eastern Europeans ….. also sometimes in poor lighting their faces have been described as blotchy. Needless to say climbing straight upward from all the murder sites would be an effective means of escape………..and finally, I’m sure I needn’t mention how red fur can appear as a crimson handkerchief under diffused lighting………and we all know how charming and disarming these creatures can be……..need I go on? I don’t know why Mr. Orangutan hasn’t yet made our suspect list?


Greg

[ChrisGeorge]

I am "the smiler with the knife" - I know... That`s why I put a smile.

But anyway, "The Ebb-Tide" it was written by RLS, or not?

Summary of The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette, 1894, by RLS, written in collaboration with stepson Lloyd Osbourne, on the Robert Louis Stevenson website.

jsantos, what does The Ebb-Tide have to do with the Whitechapel Murders? Do you have another theory that Edgar Allan Poe committed the Murders in the Rue Morgue... he certainly wrote about them, so he must be guilty, no?

Best regards

Chris

[jsantos]

I am "the smiler with the knife" - I know... That`s why I put a smile.

But anyway, "The Ebb-Tide" it was written by RLS, or not?

[ChrisGeorge]

You wanna know what it makes me laugh...
Richard Mansfield it`s a suspect in Jack the Ripper case!!! Why????

To put it more correctly, American actor Richard Mansfield is sometimes spoken of, though not with much credence, as a possible suspect in the Whitechapel murders. His candidacy is probably as much due to the fact that the 1988 two-part TV series "Jack the Ripper" starring Michael Caine as Chief Inspector Abberline toys with the character of Mansfield as a possible suspect. It's clear enough why Mansfield or the play "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" might have been thought to have a link to the murders: for the simple reason that the play was running in the West End at the time of the murders. No mystery there.

Chris

[Captain Hook]

I can`t put the knife in RLS hands??? AHAHAH
I can...

I am "the smiler with the knife" - by RLS in "A Portrait" from underwoods

jsantos,

"The smiler with the knife" is not an original phrase by Stevenson but a quotation from Chaucer. The following is an excerpt in modern English from The Knight's Tale, in The Canterbury Tales:


There I first saw the dark imaginings
of felony, and all the scheming;
the cruel ire, red as any glowing coal,
the pick-purse, and yes pale dread;
the smiler with the knife under the cloak,
the stable burning with the black smoke;
the treason and the murder in the bed;
the open war with wounds blood-covered;
strife, with bloody knife and sharp menace.

I'm afraid so far you haven't got even close.

All the best,
Eduardo

[jsantos]

You wanna know what it makes me laugh...
Richard Mansfield it`s a suspect in Jack the Ripper case!!! Why????

[Rubyretro]

A 'deerstalker hat' would have been perfect for hiding her crown, and she could have disposed of the organs in the 'Devilled Kidneys' at breakfast.

She was used to disembowelling Monarch of the Glen and grouse.