New Ideas and New Research on the Diary

[Iconoclast]

In the Diary, Lowry "makes him" rip out the pages after the MJK murder.

I'm fairly confident he wrote that long before the Kelly murder. Could be wrong, of course ...

[Herlock Sholmes]

I'm fairly confident he wrote that long before the Kelly murder. Could be wrong, of course ...

But, also, the diary author doesn't say that Lowry made him rip out the pages, does he?

[Lombro2]

I'm fairly confident he wrote that long before the Kelly murder. Could be wrong, of course ...

I thought so too. Imagine my shock when I read it was after.

The Diary does mention Lowry asking for the book “long before” the Kelly murder. It’s before his visit to Michael at the “end of June”.

So he’d have waited about six months before returning the pages and/or the “items” in them.

[Iconoclast]

I thought so too. Imagine my shock when I read it was after.

The Diary does mention Lowry asking for the book “long before” the Kelly murder. It’s before his visit to Michael at the “end of June”.

So he’d have waited about six months before returning the pages and/or the “items” in them.

I put that one on a par with "Which is further west, Carlisle or Edinburgh?".

[Lombro2]

You and I probably just assumed James ripped the pages out and handed the sheaf of papers to Lowry like that. The author, of course, thought it through…

He removed the items from the original journal, including the business label on the inside cover. And then waited for a suitable alternate journal to stick them in. Before “returning” it.

[Lombro2]

A forger would therefore be implying that Maybrick waited for an appropriate office journal and then used it to create a--shall I say it--Doppelganger.

You really can't make it up. It must be true.

Call it the Double Doppelganger Theory!

[Lombro2]

It was a dark and stormy night one wet weekend, Michael Barrett was thinking about the Hitler Diary and how he himself was a frustrated artist just like Adolf. Jack the Ripper, he thought, must be a frustrated artist too.

He also was probably a guy who felt inferior and liked the letter M and rooted for Manchester because Manchester is so manly with a Man Chest. That's why he liked to put Ms all over the place in Whitechapel. He probably had an M in his name too like Monty but not Monty. "Now if I could just find someone with the letter M in his name, I know I can write a Diary of Jack the Ripper."

He looked in all the indexes of his British History books and then remembered Tales of Liverpool which told the story of Florence Maybrick. Her husband was James Maybrick. It says he went to London in 1889 to visit his doctor. That's it! His name has an M and it has a brick like the Wentworth Buildings. He even has a famous artist brother. He's probably jealous of him.

"Oh Anne! Where's that old Victorian photo album you had? You know the one with the picture of the donkey on a grave!"