A Case of Misattribution?

[Cogidubnus]

Anarchy

Hi Tom/Maria

I'm only a right pond Brit, but wasn't it McKinley in 1901?

Dave

[mariab]

Mc Henry? Sorry. If you're not kidding, I'm coming up short on him. Who was he?

PS.: My Pro snowboarder pal Alex Doumergue just walked in. Now it's getting serious. And did I mention I DON'T WANNA LEAVE tomorrow afternoon? :-0

[Tom_Wescott]

Yeah, because that was about 20 years after. I'm talking about McHenry.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Tom, which American president can you possibly mean? JFK?

I'm kinda tipsy on Génépi and feelin' GOOD right now.
Just thought of Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Maria. "Those days" weren't too long ago, and only 20 years prior to one of those anarchists killing an American President. I actually have a lot of material relating to London anarchists from that period, so I'm not confusing today with then when I talk about anarchists.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[lynn cates]

domestic

Hello Maria. Thanks. Yes, a domestic; but, a sudden flare up of temper and, ostensibly, an unintended killing.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

anarchists

Hello Tom. Yes, and we sometimes lose sight of that fact.

Cheers.
LC

[mariab]

Sure Tom, but we're talking anarchists then and now. In those old Victorian days, anarchists used to be the good guys. (More or less.)

PS.: And Christer's idea was for a domestic, Lynn.

[lynn cates]

unintentional

Hello Maria. I think Rob's idea is that it was a sort of "oops" event--something unintentional. (Do you recall Christer's old thesis here?)

As I say, it could use some working out of details, but has some things to commend it.

Cheers.
LC

[Tom_Wescott]

Anarchists are reckless, people. They shoot U.S. Presidents and do all kinds of nutty stuff.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[mariab]

Ouch, poor Lynn! The detail I'm agreeing with Simon Wood is the fact that he too doesn't buy it that an IWEC member would have been so reckless as to murder a prossie for a bit of hassling when the police was on to them big time for cigar contraband and political surveillance.
's matter of fact, I'm slightly drunk on Génépi, which is liquor made from a local flower which looks a bit like edelweiss: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Génépi). It's my last evening here on the hills, riding for the last time early tomorrow. In other words, feeling semi-suicidal. :-(

[lynn cates]

cry of pain

Hello Maria. Statistics?

Try to imagine a yell of pain, excruciating, loud, miserable and despairing (like the piercing, shrill, singing of Master Nicolas Francken). Let it go on at about 130 decibels for, oh, say, 3 minutes.

That was merely a sigh compared to the sound I just emitted! (heh-heh)

Cheers.
LC

[Scott Nelson]

Hi Maria. A club attendee may also have killed Eddowes.

That's right. You get tired to listening to lectures on socialism, followed by prayers and singing. So you take your frustration out on a woman standing outside and you hot-foot it over to the Imperial Club on Duke Street, where the entertainment is a bit less ponderous.

Except that the piano recital by Jessie Kosminski you were hoping to see was last week. This evening, the club is open to only adult Jewish men and you decide to forego another late night's drudgery of endless circular debate and venture outside again.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Maria,

"Simon Wood seems to be agreeing with me"?

I'm flattered, but please explain.

Regards,

Simon

[mariab]

Hello Maria. If this is not math or philosophy, why are you doing probability and statistics? (heh-heh)

Am under the impression that Simon started talking about statistics, which are one of your special fields of study and teaching, Lynn. :-p

Stride was found dead outside a club. Just because I don't consider it 'wild speculation' that someone FROM that club killed Stride, does not mean I'm married to the idea, or that I think Russian spies did it.

Point taken. I consider it a wild idea for this particular Club for reasons I've explained twice in this thread, and in this case, interestingly enough, Simon Wood seems to be agreeing with me. As for Russian spies, I'm interested in exploring Lynn's hint that one of Okhrana's MOs was to instrumentalize local private agencies on the spot.