Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine

[rjpalmer]

Now you're confusing the muddled tests conducted by Leeds with Dr. Simpson's earlier findings. Whether you're doing this deliberately, I couldn't say.

Either way, there is nothing to be gained by discussing it further. So long, Markus.

[Lombro2]

But they were able to find trace evidence of Chloroacetamide. So the test was good enough.

But they then concluded the traces came from the control. The machine was apparently cleaned and voila! No traces of Chloroacetamide.

Game over. Set and match. A long time ago.

[rjpalmer]

What’s the point of academia doing a non-blind analysis, meaning they don’t know what they are examining lest they be biassed?

There was nothing 'biased' about Dr. Simpson checking for the presence of chloroacetamide. She could have detected it, or she could have not detected it. Her conclusion is that it was present in the ink.

Voller, the chemist for Diamine, was the one who informed diary researchers that it was a trace ingredient in his ink.

Harris, who helped organize the test, did not believe Barrett was one of the hoaxers and didn't know what to expect. In that sense it was 'blind.' He wanted test whether Barrett's claim to have purchased the ink in a certain shop in Liverpool would hold up to scrutiny.

But whatever. I'll leave you to your Sasquatch dreams.

Regards.

[Lombro2]

What’s the point of academia doing a non-blind analysis, meaning they don’t know what they are examining lest they be biassed?

[rjpalmer]

I get the feeling, Lombro, that you could sit bare naked on a thumbtack and still miss the point.

[Lombro2]

“The chemical is very difficult to detect.”

So when you find it, it’s not contamination.

But when you can’t find it, it’s because it’s elusive. It’s a veritable ninja.

Then you wonder why I equate mainstream Ripperology with mainstream Squatchology.

[rjpalmer]

Written by a man with a fountain pen and ink without Chloroacetamine.

You make three claims in one short sentence, all of them quite possibly wrong.

A fountain pen has an internal reservoir, often a cartridge; the diary, by contrast, was almost certainly written with a dip pen. Even in facsimile one can see the ink is uneven, fading in and out. This is characteristic of a dip pen.

That Leeds failed to find chloroacetamide on their second test is inconclusive because the chemical is very difficult to detect; indeed, Mr. Voller warned researchers that they might fail to find it. Far more significant, then, is that Leeds did detect it on their first run (which they put down to contamination) and Dr. Simpson detectied in her own expertly conducted analysis at AFI. You're whistling past the graveyard, Old Boy. The ink probably did have a trace amount of chloroacetamide.

As for the pen person, as far as I know there is no way to determine, with any degree of certainty, the gender of an unknown writer, so 'written by a man' is merely a guess, and perhaps not a very good one.

One of the handwriting experts told Melvin Harris that the writer was probably schooled in the 1930s. If correct, this would not necessarily eliminate Anne Graham from our inquiries. The poster George from Oz has written that his handwriting has elements of Edwardian penmanship because his grammar schoolteacher was an elderly relic from that bygone era. In The American Connection, Anne Graham tells us that she attended a convent school in Liverpool thanks to the largesse of an elderly relative. How old were the nuns who taught her? I don't know, nor do you, but it is a relevant question to ask.

Regards.

[Iconoclast]

Good evening Iconoclast,

Oh yes, the first event was certainly the UK premiere of the top-grossing movie of the year, Basic Instinct.



But the second event escapes me at the moment.

Don't get your knickers crossed (if you have any) on this one, Goosey, but I'm afraid the double event occurred at least nine days before the cinematic parting of the ways, as it were ...

Basic Instinct premiered in Los Angeles on March 18, 1992, and was theatrically released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on March 20, 1992 [Wiki].

The UK release was not until May 8 [Wiki], some six days after Newcastle United beat Leicester City 2-1 at the old Filbert Street ground and thereby avoided an ignominious drop into the 3rd-ranking division for the first time in their history (and in their 'centenary' season if you don't count the formation of Stanley FC in 1881).

Still, good excuse for a picture of Ms. Stone.

Cheers,

Ike

[Paddy Goose]

Good evening Iconoclast,

...the March 9, 1992 double event...

Oh yes, the first event was certainly the UK premiere of the top-grossing movie of the year, Basic Instinct.



But the second event escapes me at the moment.

[Lombro2]

British waffle anyone?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Like the theory that the diary is real.

[Lombro2]

Toast.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Waffle

[Lombro2]

Parables for those who have ears.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Still talking in riddles I see.