Originally posted by Kattrup
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If you believe it is proper and respectful to refer to him by the name he used when he found the mutilated body of a prostitute in preference to the name he used when he married, the name he used when he celebrated the births of his children and the name his grieving family used at his funeral, that is your prerogative.
Genealogically he is Charles Allen Lechmere. Sadly, in the strange world of Ripperology some refuse to acknowledge the man’s existence outside of the few minutes he spent with Polly Nichols’ body.
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