If you eliminate the impossible

[cotty]

By which logic... it is impossible to prove that the vast majority of people alive in 1888 weren't the Ripper. And therefore they all were.

Aye, but only one had a Coat of Arms with the words 'Tempus Omnia Revelat' on it.

[cotty]

Cotty:

The only thing is... the handwriting of the real James Maybrick does not remotely look like the handwriting in the diary. And that is one of the fatal mistakes the forger has done, he never imagined that investigators would take the trouble in searching for documents written by the real James Maybrick´s hand to compare them both. If the two handwritings had been identical...then that would have proven that the diary was genuine. The fact that they are not, has proven its undoing. A forger has to do only one mistake to be caught. In this case, the forger did more than one.

Sorry, but I don't believe Anne forged the Diary. I don't think her handwriting matched either, does it? And neither does Mike's.

[Graham]

Maria,

I'm not in any way promoting this hoax, for hoax the Diary is. It's just that you've missed the point of my last post, especially the last paragraph.

But never mind.

Graham

[Bailey]

Aye, but only one had a Coat of Arms with the words 'Tempus Omnia Revelat' on it.

I'd be more excited by a coat of arms with the motto "Ripperus Sum." Perhaps with some diaries rampant over a field of dead prossies... Time reveals all is hardly a sentiment unique to the context of the diary and the accompanying watch, and is certainly not conclusive by any stretch. While it seems spiffy in retrospect, who knows (and perhaps someone does?) what it actually meant to the Maybrick family?

I must confess to having been convinced on first watching the diary doco way back when, and more so upon reading Shirley Harrison's book, but there's an awful lot running against it since. How much reading on the subject have you done, Cotty - have you taken the time to look at any of the arguments against the diary, and if so, what do you have to say about them? I just wonder if you have anything more solid than a small selection of one liners, most of them cribbed from Harrison or the doco? Or perhaps your latest, deeply insightful post re Alice Yapp is the best you've got?

B.

[Dan Norder]

I eliminated this crazy idea that the Diary is a hoax.

So, the supposed "impossible" thing you eliminated is not only not impossible but the very thing that all credible experts on the topic say is most likely.

You're definitely no Sherlock Holmes.

[Moriarty]

Sherlock Holmes was a half wit who confused deductive with inductive logic. Then, what to expect from a drug addict?

[Mrsperfect]

What the...........................

And don't forget the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.

JFJ

What an excellent book that was!

Regards

Eileen

[Dan Norder]

Leave it to Moriarty to badmouth Holmes...

[Moriarty]

Leave it to Moriarty to badmouth Holmes...

I swear he'll be the death of me.

[The Good Michael]

Eliminating the impossible just means taking more X-Lax.

Mike

[Robert]

Which is why, in "The Dying Detective," Holmes spoke to Watson in the intervals of his toilet.

[Sam Flynn]

Eliminating the impossible just means taking more X-Lax.

"Alimentary, my dear Michael!"

[Robert]

It's all there in His Last Bowel.

[Sam Flynn]

It's all there in His Last Bowel.

...by Colon Doyle.

[Graham]

...by Colon Doyle.

All this is becoming something of a strain.

G