Maybrick Diary - Fake or Genuine

[Iconoclast]

I guess so. Otherwise we’d all have to be unanimous. Right?

Can some of us be unanimous, Lombro?

[Lombro2]

I guess so. Otherwise we’d all have to be unanimous. Right?

[Lewis C]

Yeah. They also send tens of thousands of innocent people to jail every century.

In that case, I guess it's for the best that the participants in this poll aren't a jury.

[Iconoclast]

Either that, or Observer tapped on the wrong button.

Somewhat obviously, RJ - but, man, he had ONE job!

(By the way, when we’ve been there ten thousand years, it’ll still be Maybrick.)

[rjpalmer]

Either that, or Observer tapped on the wrong button.

[rjpalmer]

I sense those that think Maybrick was the Ripper are getting more and more.

Even Observer's come over to the cause.

Indeed, Ike. After 30+ years of skepticism, the tide has turned.

The conversion comes quickly--similar to when the apostle Paul was struck blind on the road to Damascus.

One moment the skeptic is having a cup of tea and a cinnamon bun, flicking idly through Dan Farson's Jack the Ripper (1971), when his eyes grab hold of it.

It is obvious and unmistakable; the blood rushes to his head, the sky goes white, his entire world tilts.

FM.

Suddenly, it all makes sense. The anagrams. Diego Laurenz. JAmes MaybriCK.

I once was lost but now am found
was blind but now I see

[Iconoclast]

I sense those that think Maybrick was the Ripper are getting more and more desperate.

I sense those that think Maybrick was the Ripper are getting more and more.

Even Observer's come over to the cause.

[John Wheat]

I sense those that think Maybrick was the Ripper are getting more and more desperate.

[Iconoclast]

So if you vote, we automatically win and they can’t talk ever again. Them’s the rules we agreed on.

Let them have their fun. We stoics can afford them that.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I thought not

[Iconoclast]

There is no way on God’s good earth that Observer meant to vote ‘Genuine’.

[Herlock Sholmes]

I can only assume that an error has been made because one of the two votes for genuine has come from someone who has until very recently been someone who believes the diary to be a fake

[Lombro2]

Just to be absolutely clear here - I won't be voting.

Unless you are willing to add in the 5,700 people who rang in to LWT in 2001 to say they thought James Maybrick was the Whitechapel murderer?

Ike, you should vote. Jay, Scott and I are the only approved jurors and the Judge and yourself have a vote.

So if you vote, we automatically win and they can’t talk ever again. Them’s the rules we agreed on.

[Lombro2]

Yeah. They also send tens of thousands of innocent people to jail every century.

[Herlock Sholmes]

You're the one who said juries decide verdicts. Juries are selected by prosecution and defense. But I guess James bought the court. Another rigged jury.

They do…in real courts.