Robert Louis Stevenson

[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.

[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).

[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.

[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]

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]

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)

[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?

[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...

[Lechmere]

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

[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.

[jsantos]

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

[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

[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

[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]

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