The Jack the Ripper Mystery is Finally Solved — Scientifically

[GBinOz]

The attacks on Farmer, Tabram and Mylett might conceivably be attributed to Bury, but I would label him as being capable of the attacks on Chapman, Eddowes and Kelly as tripe, were I not so fond of tripe, particularly with white parsley sauce.

[GBinOz]

Compared to Bury, Thompson only has the ‘advantage’ of medical knowledge and we can’t even be certain of what level of medical or anatomical knowledge the ripper had.

Hmm. I'm just trying to imagine a drunken little no-hoper falling off his sawdust cart and executing, in the dark, an abdominal hysterectomy, without damaging the bladder, and a kidney extraction with his trusty little penknife. Unless, of course, these were done afterwards.

[GBinOz]

Some time between October and December of 1888 Thompson spent around 6 weeks in hospital due to being in a state of near total collapse. Thompson was often in poor health.

Interesting. Isn't that around the time that there was a pause in the ripper murders?

[GBinOz]

It’s an attempt at shoehorning a suspect as you probably suspected Fiver.


Thompson the arsonist:

As an alter boy he took some candle lighters and started a fire at the alter - so it looks like a case of a boy playing around with matches. POSSIBLE ACCIDENT

On another occasion, after an argument, he spun an incense burner around his head and accidentally caused a small fire. ACCIDENT

Later he kicked over a lamp in his lodging house (probably under the influence) - ACCIDENT

He caused a small fire at the house of his editor by absent-mindedly leaving a lit pipe in his coat that he’d hung up. ACCIDENT


Francis Thompson wasn’t an arsonist.

That does seem to be a lot of "accidents".

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thompson, rather like Van Gogh, was a tragic figure. Mental health issues and drug addiction. Poor health in general. Absolutely no history of violence. Richard Patterson has woven a fantasy around him portraying him as some Dracula-type figure skulking around the East End with a violent vendetta against prostitutes. It’s nonsense.

Compared to Bury, Thompson only has the ‘advantage’ of medical knowledge and we can’t even be certain of what level of medical or anatomical knowledge the ripper had.

To even mention him on the same breath as Bury is in act of falling for a con job from the guy that produced the despicable tripe that Geddy highlighted in post #1.