The Ripper : A Discharged Inmate Of The Asylum

[Howard Brown]

CD:

You're very welcome ...hope it will create some discussion here.

It's interesting to read Sims, who I understand was an adherent of Macnaghten's position on the identity of the Ripper, make this statement, isn't it ?

In an issue of The Referee ( January 22nd, 1899 ) he refers to the "drowned doctor".

Yet here, 11 years later, he makes this unusual statement.

[c.d.]

Professor Brown,

Haven't addressed you for a while. Glad to see you posting here. Thanks for the article. I am going to have to make it over to the JTR Forums one of these days.

c.d.

[Howard Brown]

The following excerpt may be found in an article I just located...it may be worth discussing here.

The entire article may be found on The Forums :

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?p=190498#post190498

Black & White
London
October 1st, 1910
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The released lunatic, under the stress of a fancied wrong or in a sudden fit of homicidal mania, has proved another object lesson in the madness of letting him loose upon the world without the slightest provision being made for that after-care which, in such cases , is of the first necessity.

There is no need to labour the point. It leaps to the eyes of every thinking man or woman.

Many of the mysterious cases that baffle our police and remain mysteries are crimes of insanity committed by lunatics who have been released from control and allowed to go at large without the slightest attempt at supervision. The whole series of Whitechapel atrocities were committed by a man who had been discharged from an asylum.

George R. Sims