Can you see an 'FM' on the backwall in the famous Mary Kelly photograph?

[Iconoclast]

I can’t see a ‘J’ either, I’m extremely relieved to say.

I think you need to read a bit more of the scrapbook. The line is referring to Florence Maybrick’s initials not James’.

The bit about Mary Jane was therefore not terribly helpful and I suspect you were probably ever so wrong on your sneaky suspicion.

It should be illuminating at this point how very little the vast majority of posters know about the Maybrick case despite how much authority they portray when they post.

[JeffHamm]

In some versions I recall seeing what looked like two blood trails that looked to me like arterial "spurts", that sort of formed an M shape. I don't recall ever being able to discern a J though. In many of the photos online I can't even see the "M", but that could be due to the quality of the digital image. Personally, I suspect that even if the splashes on the wall not been found, the "an initial here an initial there" line (quoted from memory, so possibly not 100% as phrased) would have just been tied to the fact that Mary Jane has an M and J in her initials, as does James Maybrick, and I have a sneaky suspicion that's what the diary writer was actually referring to.

- Jeff

[rjpalmer]

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