Robert Louis Stevenson

[Lechmere]

Cummy looks a more likely suspect to me. After all she is a wearing wipe clean black bin liner to avoid blood stains.

[Sally]

Well, that is A knife...

But Queen Victoria famously was not amused. By1888 at least two of her great loves had lefther. Her first love, her mentor and prime minister, was forced away from her by dutyto the poor people. She lived in a palace with easy access to knives and bayonettes. She wore dark clothes. As a child she pretended to be other people. She spent her life bringing social issues to the attention of the elites. Albert tried to raise the standards of london. He also had an accent... hey,knives like Jack. Social motive like (based on no evidence) Jack. She was in. London... hey, VR is a possible suspect. And if she was JTR she. would be immune from prosecution.

TTK, I think you may be on to something here...

[jsantos]

Richard Mansfield it`s a suspect in Jack the Ripper case, why? Because it`s a great actor and he represented very well Dr Jekyll and Mr hyde. People went away from 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' afraid to enter their houses alone. They feared to sleep in darkened rooms. They were awakened by nightmares. Why? Because the story, not because Richard Mansfield. And who wrote the story?
Ok this fact it doesn`t mean that RLS was Jack, the Ripper.
But do you believe in coincidences? One coincidence, two, three, four, how many coincidences are necessary to make RLS a suspect in the ripper case?

[jsantos]

Jack the Ripper address


"Skerryvore" in Bournemouth

My theory seems to bother very good people but I will continue...

"Then I`d drop into a theatre..." - In RLS book "The Ebb-Tide"
"...and then to a news-agency and buy all the papers..." - In RLS book "The Ebb-Tide"
"...and then I`d tell the fellow to drive home." - In RLS book "The Ebb-Tide"

"Sickness fell upon him at the image thus called up; and when he compared it with the scene in which himself was acting..." - In RLS book "The Ebb-Tide"
(Comparing with Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)

[TomTomKent]

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

Well, that is A knife...

But Queen Victoria famously was not amused. By1888 at least two of her great loves had lefther. Her first love, her mentor and prime minister, was forced away from her by dutyto the poor people. She lived in a palace with easy access to knives and bayonettes. She wore dark clothes. As a child she pretended to be other people. She spent her life bringing social issues to the attention of the elites. Albert tried to raise the standards of london. He also had an accent... hey,knives like Jack. Social motive like (based on no evidence) Jack. She was in. London... hey, VR is a possible suspect. And if she was JTR she. would be immune from prosecution.

[jsantos]

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

[TomTomKent]

(RLS with his father Thomas Stevenson)

When RLS was younger he adopt a false identity on his trips to the old part of Edimburgh.

Which most likely is not something in common with JTR.

The entire "case" for stephenson is too much wishful thinking and too little evidence. He could have signed a confession and been a master of disguise, but if you cant place him in the right place, at the right time, with no alibi, what does it matter? If you can't put the knife in his hand.

The same cherry picked facts could be summoned for any celebrity.

[Rubyretro]

[QUOTE]

(RLS as student)

RLS as student he was involved with at least one prostitute.

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Considering that young male students didn't have a plethora of young female
students to sleep with at the time, I would guess that that the majority of them were "involved with at least one prostitute", if only to try it once.

(The photo is beautiful).

[jsantos]

(Alison Cunningham or "Cummy")

Robert inherited tuberculosis from his mother. With his mother always sick and his father always in voyage, Robert was educated by his nurse Alison Cunningham, who was called Cummy within the family.

[jsantos]

(RLS as student)

RLS as student he was involved with at least one prostitute.

[jsantos]

(RLS with his father Thomas Stevenson)

When RLS was younger he adopt a false identity on his trips to the old part of Edimburgh.

[TomTomKent]

"all the imformation could have been available to RLS" - I don`t think so, but if you said...
It`s easier for you to say i`m wrong than to say i`m right. Any theory about Jack the Ripper identity will always be destroyed by someone, and it will always be like this.

This falls down for the same reason that Walter Sickert falls down. All you have proven is that the man had an interest in the murders. Sickert painted pictures with details known only to him and anybody else with access to the mass press coverage and public records of coroner courts, etc.

The theory would only be able to work if RLS knew something nobody else could. The name of Druit before it was made public, etc. But even then, we would have to accept that Wreck of the Titan/ Titanic coincidences are possible.

Who is to say what RLS has in common with an as yet unidentified assailant?

[Phil H]

It`s easier for you to say i`m wrong than to say i`m right.

Not if your case is argued factually, rests on evidence and is well-argued.

Any theory about Jack the Ripper identity will always be destroyed by someone, and it will always be like this.

Not necessarily, for the reasons just given. But plucking a suspect from thin air is simply akin to all the anagrammatical ideas we have had in the past - so unlikely that i am unsure what drives them on.

If you want to promote RLS as a suspect then please let us have some proof that he was in the East End ever, in London at the time, ever showed any evidence of violent behaviour etc etc.

Phil

[jsantos]

"all the imformation could have been available to RLS" - I don`t think so, but if you said...
It`s easier for you to say i`m wrong than to say i`m right. Any theory about Jack the Ripper identity will always be destroyed by someone, and it will always be like this.

[Phil H]

The Ebb-Tide was a book published, some years after the Jack the Ripper murders.

So all the imformation could have been available to RLS - I can write a novel about the Yorkshire Ripper and include lots of references and allusions to things that are relevant. It doesn't mean I was the killer!!!

Phil