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Hi. I’m the man whose biography on Thompson has been up on Casebook for many years now at:
I’m going to talk about a remarkable coincidence about the Jack the Ripper case that you may not know about. The second half provides a solution to why the murder site may have been deliberately choosen which needs not be considered more than a good story. The murders occurred in the Whitechapel district whose name as old historical records show is named after the Catholic Saint St Mary Matefelon. Later renamed Whitechapel, for its tower painted in whitewash. It had been a Catholic sanctuary for six centuries. The origins of the name Matefelon were told by the Historian John Stowe's in his “Survey of Westminster”. Stow explained the meaning of came from1428. During the time of Henry VI, a parish widow of the area was murdered while she slept. The felon fled with her jewels and he was pursued across to the Church of St. George in Southwark, where he claimed the right of sanctuary. The constables ignored his claim and brought him back to the city of London. As he was being brought back, the women of flung the filth of the street upon him. Hence, St. Mary's was given the latter name of Matefelon for unclean felon. Of the eighty-five names of districts of London and its surrounds in the 1880’s, Whitechapel is the only one whose name means a place of religious worship. Both the biggest murder case 1888 and the oldest murder case 1428 bear the striking coincidence for both the most horrific killing involved that of a woman in her own room and a cross country hunt for the criminal. Such facts about Whitechapel were easily accessible at the nearby Guildhall library where the original works of Stow and medieval maps were kept. Out of all the thousands of suspects only 1 was a voracious reader, spending very many hours of their time in the Guildhall library pouring through old books. That was until the librarian grew suspicious and had him thrown out by the police. It requires little imagination, if we were to seek the Ripper, to look for a suspect who had been trained to cut up bodies and exhibited strong religious fervor. Someone with many solid years of training for the Catholic priesthood and as a surgeon. A suspect who may have been dismissed or bore a grudge. A suspect with high literacy and an ultra-conservative warlike religionist with intimate knowledge of the East End. Out of the thousands of suspects can anyone bring to me one better than Francis Thompson. A knife, a motive, He consorted with prostitutes, and knew how to cut up dead bodies. The Ripper is thought to have wielded a sharp strong cutting knife, like a dissecting scalpel. Thompson’s last job, before running away to London on November 9th 1885,was working on the assembly line of a medical instrument factory. In London he would live mostly homeless for the next three years and have an ill begotten love affair with a prostitute who went missing. If anyone asked a homeless Thompson why he was carrying a dissecting scalpel, he would assure, with the cultured voice of a poet that he only used it to shave.
I’m going to talk about a remarkable coincidence about the Jack the Ripper case that you may not know about. The second half provides a solution to why the murder site may have been deliberately choosen which needs not be considered more than a good story. The murders occurred in the Whitechapel district whose name as old historical records show is named after the Catholic Saint St Mary Matefelon. Later renamed Whitechapel, for its tower painted in whitewash. It had been a Catholic sanctuary for six centuries. The origins of the name Matefelon were told by the Historian John Stowe's in his “Survey of Westminster”. Stow explained the meaning of came from1428. During the time of Henry VI, a parish widow of the area was murdered while she slept. The felon fled with her jewels and he was pursued across to the Church of St. George in Southwark, where he claimed the right of sanctuary. The constables ignored his claim and brought him back to the city of London. As he was being brought back, the women of flung the filth of the street upon him. Hence, St. Mary's was given the latter name of Matefelon for unclean felon. Of the eighty-five names of districts of London and its surrounds in the 1880’s, Whitechapel is the only one whose name means a place of religious worship. Both the biggest murder case 1888 and the oldest murder case 1428 bear the striking coincidence for both the most horrific killing involved that of a woman in her own room and a cross country hunt for the criminal. Such facts about Whitechapel were easily accessible at the nearby Guildhall library where the original works of Stow and medieval maps were kept. Out of all the thousands of suspects only 1 was a voracious reader, spending very many hours of their time in the Guildhall library pouring through old books. That was until the librarian grew suspicious and had him thrown out by the police. It requires little imagination, if we were to seek the Ripper, to look for a suspect who had been trained to cut up bodies and exhibited strong religious fervor. Someone with many solid years of training for the Catholic priesthood and as a surgeon. A suspect who may have been dismissed or bore a grudge. A suspect with high literacy and an ultra-conservative warlike religionist with intimate knowledge of the East End. Out of the thousands of suspects can anyone bring to me one better than Francis Thompson. A knife, a motive, He consorted with prostitutes, and knew how to cut up dead bodies. The Ripper is thought to have wielded a sharp strong cutting knife, like a dissecting scalpel. Thompson’s last job, before running away to London on November 9th 1885,was working on the assembly line of a medical instrument factory. In London he would live mostly homeless for the next three years and have an ill begotten love affair with a prostitute who went missing. If anyone asked a homeless Thompson why he was carrying a dissecting scalpel, he would assure, with the cultured voice of a poet that he only used it to shave.
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