Let's narrow down some Ripper 'facts'

[Scott Nelson]

And this precisely describes my lad, JI.

Your lad was too crazed looking to entice women to go with him to a dark place. Look at the pictures again.

[Malcolm X]

JI full name please/ link/ photo etc

[curious]

Your lad was too crazed looking to entice women to go with him to a dark place. Look at the pictures again.

Maybe he did not have to . . .

[lynn cates]

impaired

Hello Scott. Thanks. His image could not be forgotten if I tried.

I doubt he enticed anyone. But please to recall that both Polly and Annie were physically impaired at the time.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

link

Hello Malcolm. Jacob Isenschmid.

Here you go.

http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=4590

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

correct

Hello Velma. Precisely.

Cheers.
LC

[curious]

Hello Velma. Precisely.

Cheers.
LC

Hi, Lynn,
You probably know that I don't necessarily embrace your belief in his guilt, but I can see the possibility.

In fact, for what my mind has reconstructed for Annie Chapman, he or someone very like him, is really the only possibility.

Of course, if I have reconstructed wrongly . . .

[lynn cates]

wanderers

Hello Velma. Yes, fully aware.

I like your codicil, "or someone like him." I have turned up possibly 3 more wandering lunatics for early September. Of course, only JI is on record as trying to strangle a woman and he is the same one who was a butcher and carried knives with him.

Cheers.
LC

[The Good Michael]

Is there an abundance of folks from Tennessee here? Curious, Errata, Hunter... what gives? Maybe I don't want to know.

Mike

[curious]

Hello Velma. Yes, fully aware.

I like your codicil, "or someone like him." I have turned up possibly 3 more wandering lunatics for early September. Of course, only JI is on record as trying to strangle a woman and he is the same one who was a butcher and carried knives with him.

Cheers.
LC

The part that interests me is that he was caught staying in empty houses. So I can imagine him "dossing" there at 29 Hanbury, where that was apparently a common occurrence.

Since my "reconstruction" has Annie going to a house she knew for the same purpose . . . Her being in the yard is a problem. But it can be solved by a simple trip to the privy -- and she almost made it back.

But if he followed her outside . . .

There he is waiting in the shadows by the steps.

Did any of the other wandering lunatics have violence in their record?

For Polly, she was wandering drunk down dark streets in the wee hours of the morning. Who knows whom she might have met? So, it was not necessary that she and her killer talked. He could even have spotted her and wandered along behind her for a ways before pouncing.

Yes, I can see your fella, or someone like him, for those two.

[curious]

Is there an abundance of folks from Tennessee here? Curious, Errata, Hunter... what gives? Maybe I don't want to know.

Mike

And maybe you do. I happen to think Tennessee produces some pretty good people and some very interesting folks.

But, that's just the way I see things.

[DVV]

Your lad was too crazed looking to entice women to go with him to a dark place. Look at the pictures again.

Unless we underestimate the enticing power of sheep's heads.

[lynn cates]

ideas

Hello Velma.

"The part that interests me is that he was caught staying in empty houses. So I can imagine him "dossing" there at 29 Hanbury, where that was apparently a common occurrence."

I'm delighted that you brought this up. Recall that, "the man in the passage"--whom Sugden suggests was there a month before the murder--had a foreign sounding voice. He explained that he was waiting on the market to open.

"Since my "reconstruction" has Annie going to a house she knew for the same purpose . . . Her being in the yard is a problem. But it can be solved by a simple trip to the privy -- and she almost made it back."

Or her misunderstanding of what her assailant was suggesting.

"But if he followed her outside . . .

There he is waiting in the shadows by the steps."

Of course, Mrs. Long thought they were talking together.

"Did any of the other wandering lunatics have violence in their record?"

Well, one was rumoured to have; but, Henry James was regarded as harmless.

"For Polly, she was wandering drunk down dark streets in the wee hours of the morning. Who knows whom she might have met? So, it was not necessary that she and her killer talked. He could even have spotted her and wandered along behind her for a ways before pouncing."

Could be. I think she was headed to Harrison and Barber to see if she could get some spare change from a slaughterman. Her assailant was watching the animals being butchered. What followed may have been a classic (and tragic) misunderstanding.

"Yes, I can see your fella, or someone like him, for those two."

Thanks.

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

I happen to think Tennessee produces some pretty good people and some very interesting folks.

How do you call them, btw ? Tenness...ians ? hmm....no...must be something else...

[Errata]

How do you call them, btw ? Tenness...ians ? hmm....no...must be something else...

Tennesseans.