Hi All,
After reading Dew's memoirs, I thought I would start this thread, as a few ideas occurred to me whilst reading it.
Dew does hypothesise that the ripper may have been someone of respectability:
Let us assume for a moment he was a man of prominence and good repute locally. Against such a man, in the absence of direct evidence, it is too much to expect that local police officers would hold such a terrible suspicion.
And, assuming this to be the case, the man's amazing immunity can be the more readily explained. The same qualities which silenced the suspicions of his woman victims would keep him right with the police officers who knew and respected him.
I am not putting this forward as anything more than a reasonable deduction from the facts as they are known. It is merely one of the many possibilities, though, I must say, far more likely than some of the wild theories that have been advanced.
Now here is my theory on this matter.
What if the ripper was a police official? Could that be possible? This idea could trip me up slightly because it might have been difficult for him to gain the confidence of the victims, but Stride having being attacked by BS man and pipeman would surely be relived to see a policeman, right?
Mrs. Mortimer sees a man dressed in black walking away, after the death of Stride, she sees him carrying a small shiny black bag. But wait what if it was a lantern rather than a bag (perhaps nearby lights reflected off the metal when he was carrying it)? Didn't the police carry lanterns?
Dew says : Ironically enough, a police officer lived in one of the houses (Mitre Square). He had gone to bed at midnight, worn out by a long day of Ripper hunting, and was doubtless fast asleep by the time the murder was committed, almost under his own window.
Is it too coincidental, am I reading too much into this?
After reading Dew's memoirs, I thought I would start this thread, as a few ideas occurred to me whilst reading it.
Dew does hypothesise that the ripper may have been someone of respectability:
Let us assume for a moment he was a man of prominence and good repute locally. Against such a man, in the absence of direct evidence, it is too much to expect that local police officers would hold such a terrible suspicion.
And, assuming this to be the case, the man's amazing immunity can be the more readily explained. The same qualities which silenced the suspicions of his woman victims would keep him right with the police officers who knew and respected him.
I am not putting this forward as anything more than a reasonable deduction from the facts as they are known. It is merely one of the many possibilities, though, I must say, far more likely than some of the wild theories that have been advanced.
Now here is my theory on this matter.
What if the ripper was a police official? Could that be possible? This idea could trip me up slightly because it might have been difficult for him to gain the confidence of the victims, but Stride having being attacked by BS man and pipeman would surely be relived to see a policeman, right?
Mrs. Mortimer sees a man dressed in black walking away, after the death of Stride, she sees him carrying a small shiny black bag. But wait what if it was a lantern rather than a bag (perhaps nearby lights reflected off the metal when he was carrying it)? Didn't the police carry lanterns?
Dew says : Ironically enough, a police officer lived in one of the houses (Mitre Square). He had gone to bed at midnight, worn out by a long day of Ripper hunting, and was doubtless fast asleep by the time the murder was committed, almost under his own window.
Is it too coincidental, am I reading too much into this?
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