The Curious Case of History vs. James Maybrick

[Dane_F]

You are in top form despite being under the weather, sir!

I appreciate your good-naturedness about it all. If we ever stumble across each other at a pub I'll buy you a beer.

[Dane_F]

But if you have found "Dane is" surely there's a JTR in there somewhere.

I will see whatever I want to see good sir!! Thank you very much.

[GUT]

Great, Now I'm going to spend the next half hour trying to spell "Dane is JTR". Thanks.

Edit: I couldn't make it say that but I have been feeling under the weather today. . .this is starting to get freaky it's so accurate. My message even makes the sign of the cross when you draw a line between Dane and is ill. Like it's giving me my last rights. . .oh no!

But if you have found "Dane is" surely there's a JTR in there somewhere.

[Iconoclast]

Great, Now I'm going to spend the next half hour trying to spell "Dane is JTR". Thanks.

Edit: I couldn't make it say that but I have been feeling under the weather today. . .this is starting to get freaky it's so accurate. My message even makes the sign of the cross when you draw a line between Dane and is ill. Like it's giving me my last rights. . .oh no!

You are in top form despite being under the weather, sir!

[Dane_F]

I always thought it was Dane.

Great, Now I'm going to spend the next half hour trying to spell "Dane is JTR". Thanks.

Edit: I couldn't make it say that but I have been feeling under the weather today. . .this is starting to get freaky it's so accurate. My message even makes the sign of the cross when you draw a line between Dane and is ill. Like it's giving me my last rights. . .oh no!

[Dane_F]

Dane, the 4-0 represents 'win' as in ed-win.

It seems I was even trying to give Maybrick more credit by thinking the 4-0 win message was him killing 4 people and Police 0 having not caught him.

[Iconoclast]

Let's assume there were 7. What were the dates of the 7 murders? Did any of the "non C5" happen before the GSG (I'm pretty sure at least one did)? If so then that would kinda blow the whole 4-0 thing out of the water. He would have claimed all the murders up to that point, not just the canonical we think of now.

Dane, the 4-0 represents 'win' as in ed-win.

[Iconoclast]

So I did some word search of my own on the GSG. Some will be shocked at what I found.

Very good - I like it!

[GUT]

So I did some word search of my own on the GSG. Some will be shocked at what I found.

I always thought it was Dane.

[Dane_F]

Not in any great disagreement on your points, Dane - opinions differ, go figure, etc..

But I'm sure there were 7 sets of initials in the watch corresponding (one assumes) to the seven women he believed he killed.

I'm probably wrong on that but I'll check it anyway ...

Your old mate,

Icon

Let's assume there were 7. What were the dates of the 7 murders? Did any of the "non C5" happen before the GSG (I'm pretty sure at least one did)? If so then that would kinda blow the whole 4-0 thing out of the water. He would have claimed all the murders up to that point, not just the canonical we think of now.

[Dane_F]

So I did some word search of my own on the GSG. Some will be shocked at what I found.

[Iconoclast]

Hello Icon,
3) A watch that has some carvings in it that don't even list all of the proposed victims that he supposedly killed possibly being linked to one of his old friends.

Not in any great disagreement on your points, Dane - opinions differ, go figure, etc..

But I'm sure there were 7 sets of initials in the watch corresponding (one assumes) to the seven women he believed he killed.

I'm probably wrong on that but I'll check it anyway ...

Your old mate,

Icon

No - looks like it was just the canonical five ...

[GUT]

Hello Icon,

You are completely free to believe whatever you want and to take whatever logical leaps you think probable.

As Hatchett points out however, and was one of my points in the post you quoted, none of this GSG stuff would ever be admitted into court. Since your original post was as presenting it to a jury that is how I took it and responded.

When you boil down everything to its core the case against Maybrick is based: 1) around a diary not in any of his known handwriting, missing pages, which cannot even be proven to be his and is inconclusive as to whether it is even from the period and quite possibly a hoax. 2) writing on a wall which possibly has no link to JTR, if link is accepted has no visible connection to Maybrick at all, no actual picture of it even exists and the contemporary records of it contradict each other, and any link can only be established based off of flipping, rotating, and rearranging letters seeming at random to present whatever message the person wants to. 3) A watch that has some carvings in it that don't even list all of the proposed victims that he supposedly killed possibly being linked to one of his old friends.

This wouldn't even make it to trial much less come back a guilty verdict. If I were looking to build a circumstantial case around any suspect, Lechmere would have 100x a stronger argument simply because he was actually known to be the first person to discover a body.

In fact would most like get the prosecutor assigned to traffic court, (if they were really lucky).

[Dane_F]

Dane,

Your post rattled around in my head for an hour or so until I finally remembered where I had heard it all before. From the video of The Diary of Jack the Ripper, on the subject of 'Juwes' making 'James in the GSG:

Martin Fido [obsessive diary-debunker, slightly right of Attila the Hun in his views]: To try to turn it into a James Maybrick message is to produce sheer, raving nonesense and anyone who holds it up as proof that the diary is genuine is going to be seen as barking mad. [No doubts where he stood on the matter, then, and probably representative of every Ripperologist/crime writer in town?]

Cut To:

Colin Wilson [Ripperologist and crime writer, bucking the trend slightly]: I don't think the 'Juwes' on the wall making 'James' is at all silly. On the contrary, you know, I think it's just one more little piece of evidence.

I don't think Colin Wilson was viewed as preposterous, Dane - but by implication of your post he surely would be (not as preposterous as I, of course, but getting there all the same).

If it is possible that 'Juwes' was James Maybrick's attempt to place his name in the records, then the rest of his message must yield some intentionality also. That's the position I took when I first sought to pursue the point, and I was not disappointed, nor - to be honest - terribly surprised. The rest of the GSG was Maybrick's attempt to place all of his significant adult family in the record. I don't think this is at all silly. On the contrary, you know, I think it's just one more little piece of evidence.

Icon

Hello Icon,

You are completely free to believe whatever you want and to take whatever logical leaps you think probable.

As Hatchett points out however, and was one of my points in the post you quoted, none of this GSG stuff would ever be admitted into court. Since your original post was as presenting it to a jury that is how I took it and responded.

When you boil down everything to its core the case against Maybrick is based: 1) around a diary not in any of his known handwriting, missing pages, which cannot even be proven to be his and is inconclusive as to whether it is even from the period and quite possibly a hoax. 2) writing on a wall which possibly has no link to JTR, if link is accepted has no visible connection to Maybrick at all, no actual picture of it even exists and the contemporary records of it contradict each other, and any link can only be established based off of flipping, rotating, and rearranging letters seeming at random to present whatever message the person wants to. 3) A watch that has some carvings in it that don't even list all of the proposed victims that he supposedly killed possibly being linked to one of his old friends.

This wouldn't even make it to trial much less come back a guilty verdict. If I were looking to build a circumstantial case around any suspect, Lechmere would have 100x a stronger argument simply because he was actually known to be the first person to discover a body.

[Hatchett]

Hi,

Not to be picky, but you started this thread as submission in a court of law, but now you are resorting to blind speculation which would never been admitted into a court.

I think by doing this you have to admit that Maybrick has to be innocent, in law and in reasonable application of the law.

Best wishes.