New Ideas and New Research on the Diary

[Lombro2]

What are the odds that the first and only (?) image of a donkey beside a grave that comes up in Google Images is from Liverpool?

Is this Michael Barrett's Donkey Photo--the one he said was in the "photo album" that he allegedly turned into a Ripper Diary?
A Pet Cemetery

A donkey pauses beside a gravestone at the pet cemetery of an R.S.P.C.A. home for animals in Liverpool. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) by Anonymous


A donkey pauses beside a gravestone at the pet cemetery of an... News Photo - Getty Images

[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!"

[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]

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.

[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]

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.

[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?

[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 ...

[Lombro2]

I'm going with a pig's kidney.

The way Anne likes making porkers....

[Lombro2]

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

So if Maybrick was using the inside cover as a cutting board, then the stains obviously wouldn't get on his confession.

Barrett must have done the same. Good thinking! Leave just one page just in case it's still wet which it would probably be in his case.

[rjpalmer]

Sheep, pig, or human?

Knife drippings? Nice touch!

Robert Smith should have the stain tested if he has the courage of his convictions.

What are the odds? Human blood or flaxseed oil?

[Lombro2]

Sheep, pig, or human?

Knife drippings? Nice touch!

[Lombro2]

Until then, how about this mock-up?





"I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise"

[Lombro2]

Wow, it looks like I'm actually going to the one who has to write this. Help! Help!

Maybe we should have a Buwler-Lytton contest on a "wet weekend". Best narrative that begins with "It was a dark and stormy night" wins.

[Lombro2]

4. We (actually I and no one else) can concoct—I mean construct—a seamless narrative of how Michael Barrett created his masterpiece.

The story is “analogued” in my head. I assure you there are no holes or seams visible and it will explain everything. Now I just have to get it down in the casebook. It might take a while but just be patient. I’ll just set the opening scene:

It was a dark and stormy night one wet weekend…