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  • Woolf's Luck

    Hi chaps,

    Not content with being best mates with dear old Klosowski, and getting rather a rough time from the Whitechapel prostitutes at the time of the Whitechapel murders, I think this might be Woolf Levisohn mixed up in a third case. He never seems to keep appropriate company, does he?

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    Regards,

    Mark

  • #2
    Fascinating, Mark... "You robbed a woman in Poland before you came over here", Levisohn claims to have said to the defendant. "How do you know?", he's asked. "Because I know", Levisohn replies. Comes across as a bit "knowing" and sanctimonious, even in 1890, doesn't he?

    Incidentally, I wonder if the Greenfield Street mentioned in that case is the same Greenfield Street where Klosowski lived with Lucie Baderski around 1890. Looks like it might be.
    Kind regards, Sam Flynn

    "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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    • #3
      As reported in the Times, 27th May 1890:

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      "Balberski... was removed shrieking from the dock"
      Kind regards, Sam Flynn

      "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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      • #4
        missed calling

        Hello Sam.

        ""Because I know", Levisohn replies. Comes across as a bit "knowing" and sanctimonious."

        This guy should have been a ripperologist! (snicker!)

        The best.
        LC

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        • #5
          Originally posted by lynn cates View Post
          Hello Sam.

          ""Because I know", Levisohn replies. Comes across as a bit "knowing" and sanctimonious."

          This guy should have been a ripperologist! (snicker!)
          Oh, I don't know, Lynn. In Levisohn's own words, with my underlining:

          Kancrovitch said [to me, Levisohn], "Whatever you do, don't come to my place". I [Levisohn] said, "Mr. Kancrovitch, I have known you twenty years, and never wished to come into your place". I did not want to go in because he is too low. I sold him razors, but I should not make acquaintance with him because I am more honest.


          ...no ripperologist I know could be that sanctimonious! Well, perhaps one or two
          Kind regards, Sam Flynn

          "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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          • #6
            honesty

            Hello Sam. Indeed! More honest than thou? Hmmppff.

            In ripperology it would be, "More scholarly than thou." (snicker!)

            The best.
            LC

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Sam Flynn View Post
              As reported in the Times, 27th May 1890:

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              "Balberski... was removed shrieking from the dock"
              Sam,
              Never mind the bollocks .....isnt this a great find!


              Many Thanks to m-w-r and your good self for posting this fascinating info!
              All the Best
              Norma
              Last edited by Natalie Severn; 12-30-2009, 05:26 PM.

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