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This has been found on the other site:
It backs a theory that the reason police interest in Tumblety dwindled to nothing, and that he was something an embarrassment to be forgotten, was initially because they could not get him back, but mostly because he was seemingly 'cleared' of all the Ripper crimes by the Alice McKenzie murder -- assumed by police and press to be by the same maniac's hand.
Not necessarily all police (doctors disagreed) but an element of this case lodged in Anderson's mind, eg. the broken pipe, which his fading memory later transferred across to the Kelly murder as that involved, to a very minor degree, a [non-broken] pipe as well.
In his 1910 memoirs Anderson denies, in a footnote, that McKenzie was a Ripper victim, but that is arguably a later redaction. The even later Coles murder will be entirely obliterated from his memory, even though he appeared at the scene of the crime. It was so seriously taken to be the return of 'Jack' that Swanson and Macnaghten were there too.
That Kelly was the final murder and that this was known to the police at the time is a redacted notion which, I argue, contaminated many policemen's memories, including Littlechild. He thinks that the murders stopped after Tumblety jumped his bail and vanished, perhaps a suicide.
Limiting the 'Jack' murders to Kelly was Macnaghten's idea because he had no choice: he believed -- rightly or wrongly -- that the deceased Druitt was the fiend and so this embarrassing and inconvenient timing had to be adopted. For fifteen years, to the public, Macnaghten tried to shove the square peg into the round hole by claiming, through proxies, that the police knew that all subsequent murders were not and could not be by the one and only 'Jack'.
This fooled some but by no means all. Reid knew it was bunkum, Abberline too, though fumblingly so, and William Le Queux, a professional fantasist/alarmist could spot a fellow phoney -- and did.
This truncated 'autumn of terror' inadvertently resurrected Tumblety in Littlechild's mind. Did he not flee and ... the murders stopped?
This may have been simply a coincidence; the police on the hunt for a middle-aged, affluent, semi-employed doctor who fled at the time that the real murderer -- to Mac -- a local barrister had imploded and taken his own life.
Yet the police chief decided to use elements of this American suspect later.
Hence the intertwining of these two suspects to the point where Littlechild thinks that 'Dr T' might have committed suicide and that is who 'Dr D' really is -- if Littlechild is being sincere about that detail and not just deferentially polite to Sims; to give him something as he shreds the famous, upper class, leftist writer's Ripper solution.
It backs a theory that the reason police interest in Tumblety dwindled to nothing, and that he was something an embarrassment to be forgotten, was initially because they could not get him back, but mostly because he was seemingly 'cleared' of all the Ripper crimes by the Alice McKenzie murder -- assumed by police and press to be by the same maniac's hand.
Not necessarily all police (doctors disagreed) but an element of this case lodged in Anderson's mind, eg. the broken pipe, which his fading memory later transferred across to the Kelly murder as that involved, to a very minor degree, a [non-broken] pipe as well.
In his 1910 memoirs Anderson denies, in a footnote, that McKenzie was a Ripper victim, but that is arguably a later redaction. The even later Coles murder will be entirely obliterated from his memory, even though he appeared at the scene of the crime. It was so seriously taken to be the return of 'Jack' that Swanson and Macnaghten were there too.
That Kelly was the final murder and that this was known to the police at the time is a redacted notion which, I argue, contaminated many policemen's memories, including Littlechild. He thinks that the murders stopped after Tumblety jumped his bail and vanished, perhaps a suicide.
Limiting the 'Jack' murders to Kelly was Macnaghten's idea because he had no choice: he believed -- rightly or wrongly -- that the deceased Druitt was the fiend and so this embarrassing and inconvenient timing had to be adopted. For fifteen years, to the public, Macnaghten tried to shove the square peg into the round hole by claiming, through proxies, that the police knew that all subsequent murders were not and could not be by the one and only 'Jack'.
This fooled some but by no means all. Reid knew it was bunkum, Abberline too, though fumblingly so, and William Le Queux, a professional fantasist/alarmist could spot a fellow phoney -- and did.
This truncated 'autumn of terror' inadvertently resurrected Tumblety in Littlechild's mind. Did he not flee and ... the murders stopped?
This may have been simply a coincidence; the police on the hunt for a middle-aged, affluent, semi-employed doctor who fled at the time that the real murderer -- to Mac -- a local barrister had imploded and taken his own life.
Yet the police chief decided to use elements of this American suspect later.
Hence the intertwining of these two suspects to the point where Littlechild thinks that 'Dr T' might have committed suicide and that is who 'Dr D' really is -- if Littlechild is being sincere about that detail and not just deferentially polite to Sims; to give him something as he shreds the famous, upper class, leftist writer's Ripper solution.
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