The Diary — Old Hoax or New or Not a Hoax at All?​

[Herlock Sholmes]

I don’t care about that Ike. What gets badly on mine is this absolutely deliberate act of ignoring. You have a rebuttal and the only response is “well surely there must be a chance that he could have used it…” That’s all that you have. There is no rebuttal to the point. And it has been around 10 years whether you like it or not. Absolutely barking mad, desperate and embarrassing attempts at dismissing this have been made and they have failed miserably.

If ‘one off instance’ can’t be disproven after 10 years (and it can’t) then we’re on safe ground to say it’s the proof that was asked for. The diary has been categorically proven a forgery. It doesn’t deserve to be discussed as a ripper-related item.

[Iconoclast]

In fact Ike, much as it annoys you, it’s a categorically, unequivocally proven modern fake.

This is where I can't engage with you because it hasn't been proven to be a fake. You've just 100% bought into Orsam's argument, but that's all it is - an argument.

PS No-one - absolutely no-one - has been searching for 10 years to discount Orsam's theory so please stop saying it. I give it almost no thought whatsoever as - although it hasn't yet been contradicted by a word-specific example - it simply isn't categorical (it's also ambiguous). You can't take Orsam's opining and make of it an unquestionable truth. This is where you absolutely get on my tits, mate.

PPS Let this be the last of it - feel free to state it again and again but I won't be engaging in it.

[Herlock Sholmes]

It is only inference that James Maybrick actively disguised his handwriting. I have shown here on the Casebook - in a brilliant randomised, placebo-controlled study of one - that my own formal handwriting way back in 1989 or so (when people actually wrote to one another with all vowels preserved, no numbers substituting for letters, and no emojis) looked absolutely nothing whatsoever (to me) like my informal handwriting for my own eyes. Maybe Audrey Giles or Sue Iremonger or Anna Koren or whoever could tell me the similarities but I can't see any.

As Lao Tzu so famously nearly said, every journey starts with a single study of one ...

PS Wasn't Anna Koren that speccy lass from 'On the Buses'?

I’d prefer the explanation that everyone else in the world (apart from those in the Maybrick Club) would accept as by a huge distance the most likely. That the diary is clearly a fake. In fact Ike, much as it annoys you, it’s a categorically, unequivocally proven modern fake.

[Herlock Sholmes]

It wasn't MJD (sorry Keith).


PS It was Maybrick.

Is it good logic to outright dismiss one suspect because of your confidence in another?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Carrie Brown was a New York prostitute known as Old Shakespeare, murdered in a room of the East River Hotel in 1891.