New Tests on Tilly letter prove it genuine

[New Waterloo]

I just get the feeling that scissors being involved is not as unlikely as you think. Having had a quick read of the postmortem and thinking of the cuts to the eye lids of Eddowes i think there may have been scissors used. Any knife used on her torso would need to be pretty strong i would think but probably however sharp not great for snipping eye lids. Something like an experiment with a tomato may be useful. I will try later but it seems to me the knife would pull the skin. If you see what I mean. You know snag. Maybe same with facial injuries maybe another knife/instrument. Is the evidence of the postmortem telling us this. Does it mean a nag or parcel would be required.

NW

[New Waterloo]

Should read bag

[rjpalmer]

I have to correct myself here. I’d made an assumption which I think was wrong. I can’t see anyone at the time referring to the ripper victims as ‘girls.’ I agree with Karsten Giese that, if genuine, the Reverend was referring to The Bell Club incident.

Hi Herlock

but the Bell Club interpretation has its own problems, doesn't it?

The line reads:

"It’s a wonder he hasn't hung for what he did to those poor girls"

Abrahams' involvement in the Bell Club incident was supposedly the seduction of a girl. Singular.

And that's hardly a death penalty case.

Why would 'Dott' be surprised that Kosminski hadn't been executed for mere seduction? Prison maybe, but capital punishment?

No; it seems to me that the writer wants us to believe that 'Dott' knows that Kosminski is a murderer. That he should hang. The use of the term 'girls' is indeed clumsy--but that could only mean that the writer didn't put a lot of thought into it.

I would use 'wooden nickel' instead of 'three-dollar bill.'

[Herlock Sholmes]

Hi Herlock

but the Bell Club interpretation has its own problems, doesn't it?

The line reads:

"It’s a wonder he hasn't hung for what he did to those poor girls"

Abrahams' involvement in the Bell Club incident was supposedly the seduction of a girl. Singular.

And that's hardly a death penalty case.

Why would 'Dott' be surprised that Kosminski hadn't been executed for mere seduction? Prison maybe, but capital punishment?

No; it seems to me that the writer wants us to believe that 'Dott' knows that Kosminski is a murderer. That he should hang. The use of the term 'girls' is indeed clumsy--but that could only mean that the writer didn't put a lot of thought into it.

I would use 'wooden nickel' instead of 'three-dollar bill.'

Hi Roger,

Yeah that’s a good point which hadn’t registered with me. I should have re-read the Bell Club stuff first. I started off being suspicious of the letter and I can only say that things haven’t improved. You’ve just pushed me further in that direction.