Originally posted by rjpalmer
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You're getting us off topic (again)...
I've been the one trying to steer us back to the typescript. Trying and failing is better than making no attempt at all.
...but if Carol Emmas is correct, and Robbie did live in Goodwin Avenue in the 1960s...
...then an explanation is in order why Olga Maybrick Ellison already knew by the mid-1980s (at the latest) that someone in Goodwin Avenue had had Maybrick's watch, when Albert, formerly of Goodwin Avenue, claims he didn’t buy the watch until 1992.
I have two explanations, and neither is good news for your theories.
1. Mrs. Meagher's memory was polluted by Feldman and his team, and she never actually mentioned Goodwin Avenue. The street name was inadvertently 'planted.'
2. Someone in Goodwin Avenue did have Maybrick's genuine watch in the 1960s, and unless you're willing to swallow an enormous coincidence, this was the inspiration for Robbie Johnson's later hoax.
Let's go with No. 1, since it seems to be your preferred explanation.
1. Mrs. Meagher's memory was polluted by Feldman and his team, and she never actually mentioned Goodwin Avenue. The street name was inadvertently 'planted.'
2. Someone in Goodwin Avenue did have Maybrick's genuine watch in the 1960s, and unless you're willing to swallow an enormous coincidence, this was the inspiration for Robbie Johnson's later hoax.
Let's go with No. 1, since it seems to be your preferred explanation.
This would mean that on three known occasions Feldman and/or Feldman's team managed to elicit false information from the people they had interviewed, whether through 'pollution,' leading questions, or from people telling Feldman what he wanted to hear.
1. Mrs. Meagher.
2. Anne Graham.
3. Billy Graham.
Three strikes and one is usually out, but you're banking on Feldman eliciting genuine information from the electricians--not a great bet considering Feldman's track record for the other three--as well as the irony that with the electricians even Feldman himself believed that his own clumsy interviewing techniques had led to false leads, a rumor mill, and (ultimately) one of the electricians offering to the give the diary a bogus provenance "for the right price."
Considering all that, it's going to be a tough sell, Caz. Good luck with it!
1. Mrs. Meagher.
2. Anne Graham.
3. Billy Graham.
Three strikes and one is usually out, but you're banking on Feldman eliciting genuine information from the electricians--not a great bet considering Feldman's track record for the other three--as well as the irony that with the electricians even Feldman himself believed that his own clumsy interviewing techniques had led to false leads, a rumor mill, and (ultimately) one of the electricians offering to the give the diary a bogus provenance "for the right price."
Considering all that, it's going to be a tough sell, Caz. Good luck with it!
If Feldman's instincts were wrong concerning Anne Graham and Billy Graham - which is something we can both believe in - then the chances are good that his instincts were also wrong when he dismissed the electricians only to go charging down the Graham rabbit hole. Perhaps he was judging all workmen by his own standards, when he assumed that the one offering to reveal all wanted money for old rope.
As for Norma Meagher, I'm not sure we can say with any certainty whether she only said what she said because of what Carol Emmas said first, or whether she would have said it anyway.
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