(yet another) New suspect

[Wickerman]

.... Indeed, Beaman was Martin Fido's favourite writer when Martin was 6 .....

My goodness, does anyone have a favourite writer at 6 years old?, I can't even remember reading anything when I was 6.

Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachshund are my first media memories!

So now we can safely add, ...Jack Russell the terrier of Mitre Square?

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I have yet to read anything in the book that was not common knowledge, or that couldn't have been gleaned from information available at the time.

I guess the question we must ask (those who might take it seriously), is what 'factual' information was publicly available in the 1920's.
The work by Leonard Matters, The Mystery of Jack the Ripper, 1929, comes to mind. If that is the best example then the answer to the question is, "not much".

He wouldn't be the only one-legged killer.

We might recall the suspect seen by Mrs Kennedy walked with "an awkward gait".
Another suspect was seen with a knife blade protruding from his jacket and he walked "as if he had stiff knees".

Regards, Jon S.

[Robert]

I suppose the one-legged man, after slaughtering Kelly, gave her a shove, cried "You're it" and hopped nimbly off into the night.

[Bridewell]

It's Not Impossible

A uniped ! No wonder he could hop so silently from the crime scenes...

He wouldn't be the only one-legged killer. Remember Michael Sams?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/the-michael-sams-trial-kidnapper-who-killed-teenager-is-jailed-for-life-jury-told-of-an-obsessive-characters-cruel-campaign-to-extract-ransoms-and-outwit-his-pursuers-1483709.html

[curious4]

subliminal messages

Ah yes! The organgrinder - it was the monkey what dunnit! Actually, I believe that was suggested at the time, although the animal in the Rue Du Morge was an orangutang, I think. lol

C4

[curious]

Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachshund are my first media memories!
Little did the little me know I'd grow up to find I was being entertained by a ripperologist. Must be his fault I turned out this way.

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Maybe he used subliminal messages -- a man ahead of his time. Those subliminal messages are for more than getting you to buy extra sodas and popcorn at the drive in.

[stthrobber]

I'm currently reading this book and as a new addition to the forums here I can say I'm not overly impressed by it.

For instance he claims to have killed Martha Tabram with a scalpal and a Malayan dagger, yet the coroner's report suggests a pen knife was used for one wound only.

I also find it a bit glib and vague, particularly when names and locations that could be used to verify his claims are glossed over with a "to protect" kind of disclaimer.

I have yet to read anything in the book that was not common knowledge, or that couldn't have been gleaned from information available at the time. I'm about halfway through now and am, to say the least, dubious

[Rubyretro]

[QUOTE][QUOTE=Robert;200969]The answer at last ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0igRKYQUfpg[/QUOTE[/

Yes, Robert...even as you posted that I was busy googling 'Derek and Clive'
together with 'Muffin the Mule'...sadly I couldn't find a link.

It must be a dim childhood memory.

[Robert]

The answer at last ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0igRKYQUfpg

[drstrange169]

Larry the lamb and Dennis the dachshund are my first media memories!
Little did the little me know I'd grow up to find I was being entertained by a ripperologist. Must be his fault I turned out this way.

[Stewart P Evans]

Alan

I hope for Alan's sake that it is a great success, he's a dear old boy (albeit he's a lot younger than me).

[PaulB]

Hi Hunter,
I can't say too much about the ms, but for me what really matters is that it seems to be the work of S.G. Hulme Beaman, whose importance isn't going to be appreciated by Brits under a certain age or probably by American's at all, but his creation of Toytown and Larry the Lamb was hugely important to those who grew up in the 40s and 50s (and before). Indeed, Beaman was Martin Fido's favourite writer when Martin was 6 and Alan Bennett recalls the Toytown radio broadcasts as a light of normality during the darkness of the war and post-war years. So, if this is a novel by Beaman then it is an important and extraordinary and unique diversion from his literary output. However, it is such an extraordinary diversion that it raises the question of whether or not he did write it, and, if he didn't, who did. But look beyond the inevitable hype, and judge the ms responsibly as a novel by an important children's writer, as an early example of Ripper fiction, and as a singular crime novel from the Golden Age, and you should find it an interesting and rewarding read. That it could be anything else is up to you to decide.

[richardnunweek]

Hi,
I have often speculated that the killer may have had some leg deformity , and a one legged man fits the bill.
BS seen to have been walking as if partly ''intoxicated'' for instance , and a possibility that Polly Nichols may have initially pulled away from her assailant, and was not caught up with until the place she fell.. fascinating but not another diary?
Regards Richard.

[Trevor Marriott]

A uniped ! No wonder he could hop so silently from the crime scenes...

All he ever wanted with these protitutes was a `leg over`

On his way home he stopped off in a karaoke bar and was heard singing "Wide eyed and legless"

[Rubyretro]

A uniped ! No wonder he could hop so silently from the crime scenes...

[Trevor Marriott]

>>..Jack the Ripper was a one-legged man named Carnac.<<

Is that an anagram of Long John Silver?

"The pirates are the men that will not be blamed for nothing."

and he was seen by a witness legging it down the road