Francis Spurzheim Craig

[jmenges]

If someone has the full illustration of the Chapman inquest maybe they can post it. I recall that there is a man on the left side at the other table that looks similar to the person suggested to be Craig. Which led me to wonder if artists might have not drawn exact portraits but fell back on "stock" figures. Or, equally as likely, that the side burns and granny glass look was very popular.

(Forgive me I'm posting from a phone)

JM

[Abby Normal]

1903

Razor, apparently.

thanks Sally. Wow. what way to go

[Hunter]

[Sally]

thanks Sally. Wow. what way to go

Relatively common at the time, Abby - but horrible, nonetheless

[Robert]

Even more horrible for poor Craig - it took him a couple of days to die.

[jmenges]

Thanks, Hunter.

It appears that the person I was remembering is wearing a monocle.

JM

[Chris2307uk]

Anyone notice in that pic how the guy in question looks just like the guy above him with the monical?

[jmenges]

I believe that's what I'm talking about.

JM

[Sally]

Even more horrible for poor Craig - it took him a couple of days to die.

Yes, he must have been desperate to have done that to himself - I don't intend to imply that he was wracked with guilt or anything like that, mind you

[Digit]

so the theory is that an ex husband paid his ex wife for prostitution and then killed her. And risked getting caught 4 times before that for killing other women in the hope that his ex wife would accompany him to her lodgings in the middle of the night alone.

sorry, cant buy that.

[Robert]

That's good then, Digit, because that's not the theory.

[Livia]

I agree Robert, that Craig sr. looks much like
Anthony Hopkins. I noticed that right away.

[Debra A]

I wonder if Craig did write the Dear Boss letter? Is this covered in the forthcoming book, I wonder? It seems to me that there's a case to be made there...

I think it might be tricky to discount the possibility, all things considered.

Hi Sally,
I noticed one time I looked at the google book preview that Craig's signature was presented alongside the Dear Boss letter and the handwriting similarity was quite striking.

[Digit]

That's good then, Digit, because that's not the theory.

The body of Jack the Ripper’s final victim is set to be exhumed as a new book claims the world’s most famous serial killer was her estranged husband.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11771381/Jack-the-Ripper-identity-mystery-solved-in-new-book.html

[Trevor Marriott]

Hi Sally,
I noticed one time I looked at the google book preview that Craig's signature was presented alongside the Dear Boss letter and the handwriting similarity was quite striking.

But bearing in mind the Victorians were all taught to write in the same way that may be just coincidence.

https://www.trevormarriott.co.uk