From Mitre Square to Goulston Street - Some thoughts.

[Trevor Marriott]

Well, Trevor, you quoted it and it states that the heart was found on the table.

If it is not correct, then where was the heart found?

Having always stated that press reports are unsafe that doesn't mean to say that they should be disregarded. In this instance, the two reports I published corroborate what Insp Reid said that the heart was not taken away by the killer

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[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

I have said before press reports are unsafe to totally rely on

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Well, Trevor, you quoted it and it states that the heart was found on the table.

If it is not correct, then where was the heart found?

[Losmandris]

Lets try and stay on topic everyone!

[Trevor Marriott]

Can you please clarify whether you are saying that the postmortem report attributed to Dr Bond was written by Dr Hebbert.

Yes Hebbbet was Dr Bonds assistant

Whoever wrote that report, it contradicts the Lloyds Weekly report you quoted about the heart being found with the breasts on the table.

The post-mortem report has the breasts in different locations and no mention of the heart being found at all.

I have said before press reports are unsafe to totally rely on

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[Trevor Marriott]

"Despite having his hands full with the Whitechapel murders in the autumn of 1888, Reid was able to leave the direction of the inquiry to Scotland Yard, represented by the more-than-able Abberline. He himself gave his attention to some of the other major crimes that were still being committed in the East End."
The Man who Hunted Jack the Ripper, Connell & Evans, 1999, p.64.

Reid was only the local inspector, the mutilation murders were above his station and their investigation was controlled by Scotland Yard.

Reid was a detective inspector promoted by Scotland Yard and was head of Whitechapoel CID and he was a highly respected officer stop muddying the water by trying to malign his status

I know, Connell & Evans mention Reid showing up at Millers Court with Thicke to conduct investigations "on the spot". The quote is not referenced and could mean a number of things. Regardless, Reid was at the inquest but there is no surviving paperwork to clarify his involvement in the case.

I have answered this several times clearly you do not read the previous posts

In 1888?, yes I would agree, but neither do you.
Being in police today does not mean you know the procedures back in 1888.

It is basic procedure all paperwork goes through the chain of command and it was the same in 1888

I do know that Warren had dictated that Swanson was to be the hub where every paper, memo or report was to go across his desk. That nothing is to bypass his eyes. So lets not over-egg the pudding, Reid had been transferred from J Div. to be the Local Inspector of H Div. CID, replacing Abberline who had moved up to Scotland Yard.
Reid was not in a key position to know everything about the investigation.

Well I beg to differ on that point as I keep stating and you don't listen all the case papers would have had to have gone through Reid before they went to Swanson and besides swanson was taken off the case in December 1888

Reid's memory is just as deficient as all the other officers who reflect back on the case, and there is plenty of evidence of missing organs in the cases of Chapman, Eddowes & Kelly, regardless of your preference to cherry-pick what suits your theory.

There is no cherry picking I am stating facts and there is nothing wrong with Reids memory in 1896 below is the part of the interview relating to Kelly I have highlighted the facts that are proven facts about the case and have to ask where in that piece can it be said that his memory had failed him and he got things wrong. Either his memory was spot on or he had his own police report which he had retained to rely on.

“This was a case in which a pretty, fair-haired, blue-eyed, youthful girl was murdered. She rented a room in a house in Dorset-street, or which she paid 4s 6d a week rent. The room was badly furnished for the reason that her class of people always pawn or sell anything decent they ever get into their places. The curtains to the windows were torn and one of the panes of glass was broken.

Kelly was in arrears with her rent and one morning a man known as ‘The Indian’, who was in the employment of the landlord of the house, went round about eight o’clock to see the woman about the money. Receiving no answer to his knock at the door, he peered through the window, and through the torn curtain saw the horrible sight of the woman lying on her bed hacked to pieces and pieces of her flesh placed upon the table.

I ought to tell you that the stories of portions of the body having been taken away by the murderer were all untrue. In every instance the body was complete. The mania of the murderer was exclusively for horrible mutilation. The landlord was brought round to the house by his man, and the sight of the poor mutilated woman turned his brain.

The suggestion having been made that in the eyes of a murdered person a reflection of the murderer might be retained, we had the eyes of Kelly photographed and the photographs magnified, but the effort was fruitless. We tried every possible means of tracing if the woman had been seen with a man, but without avail. An example of the difficulty we had may be found in that women came forward who swore that they saw Kelly standing at the corner of the court at eight o’clock of the morning her body was found, but the evidence of the doctors proved this to be an impossibility. By that hour the woman had been dead not less than four hours.”

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[Trevor Marriott]

In the case of Kelly, one would have to believe that when Bond reported that her heart was missing from the pericardium, he inexplicably failed to mention where in the room it was found, even though he did so for every other organ.

Bond didn't write his own report it was transcribed by Dr Hebbert who was Bonds assistant

In the cases of Chapman and Eddowes, one is bound to ask how common it was for murder victims to be mistakenly declared victims of a mutilating madman when in reality mortuary staff had merely helped themselves to some organs.

You need to read up on the activities of body dealers and corrupt mortuary attendants

If so, how kind of the murderer to open up the victim to make things easier for the mortuary staff and not take anything himself.

I am sure the killer did not have that intention, but do you not think it strange that the killer is alleged to have been seeking to excise organs from his victims yet we see no attempts made to do just that with Tabram, Stride, Nichols, Coles, Mckenzie because no one could remove the organs from those other victims without being detected because the abdomens of those victims had not been opened up by the killer in a way that organs could be removed un-noticed.

Yet the abdomens of Chapman and Eddowes were the only two victims that had been ripped open thereby making it easy for the organs to be removed from the mortuary before the post mortems which were carried out at two different mortuaries and that two different methods of extraction of the uterus were seen to have taken place.

So with that in mind, if the killer had removed these organs at the crime scene then he had to not only be proficient in the knowledge of not only how to locate the organs but highly skilled to be able to use two different methods of extraction

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[Wickerman]

In the case of Kelly, one would have to believe that when Bond reported that her heart was missing from the pericardium, he inexplicably failed to mention where in the room it was found, even though he did so for every other organ.

Exactly, several organs were removed from her body, but found elsewhere on the bed or table, yet none were described as 'absent', this was only attributed to the heart which was not noted to be found anywhere in the room.
That being the case it is quite obvious what 'absent' meant, it was taken away.
This is what the doctors were sifting the ashes in the fireplace for.
The fire would need to be extremely hot to totally reduce a human organ to ashes. What they would have found would be a hardened, shrunken & blackened deformed heart, or pieces of a heart.

In the cases of Chapman and Eddowes, one is bound to ask how common it was for murder victims to be mistakenly declared victims of a mutilating madman when in reality mortuary staff had merely helped themselves to some organs.

And, it would need to be different mortuary staff, not forgetting the dead-house in Whitechapel had no regular staff. They were only inmates of the local workhouse.
However, the City mortuary at Golden Lane was a permanent establishment.
So, Trevor's wild theory also includes conspiracy, as if it needs to get any more complicated.

If so, how kind of the murderer to open up the victim to make things easier for the mortuary staff and not take anything himself.

Which suggests a third member of the conspiracy?

[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

... there is plenty of evidence of missing organs in the cases of Chapman, Eddowes & Kelly ...

In the case of Kelly, one would have to believe that when Bond reported that her heart was missing from the pericardium, he inexplicably failed to mention where in the room it was found, even though he did so for every other organ.

In the cases of Chapman and Eddowes, one is bound to ask how common it was for murder victims to be mistakenly declared victims of a mutilating madman when in reality mortuary staff had merely helped themselves to some organs.

If so, how kind of the murderer to open up the victim to make things easier for the mortuary staff and not take anything himself.

[Wickerman]

It makes all sense as far as Reid is concerned with regard to the Kelly murder you only have to read the report and see all the detail he describes about the murder, which is 99.9% correct apart from one small error.

"Despite having his hands full with the Whitechapel murders in the autumn of 1888, Reid was able to leave the direction of the inquiry to Scotland Yard, represented by the more-than-able Abberline. He himself gave his attention to some of the other major crimes that were still being committed in the East End."
The Man who Hunted Jack the Ripper, Connell & Evans, 1999, p.64.

Reid was only the local inspector, the mutilation murders were above his station and their investigation was controlled by Scotland Yard.

and I beg to differ but Reid did attend the Kelly crime scene

I know, Connell & Evans mention Reid showing up at Millers Court with Thicke to conduct investigations "on the spot". The quote is not referenced and could mean a number of things. Regardless, Reid was at the inquest but there is no surviving paperwork to clarify his involvement in the case.

You clearly don't know how the chain of command works as far as police investigations are concerned.

In 1888?, yes I would agree, but neither do you.
Being in police today does not mean you know the procedures back in 1888.

Reid as head of Whitechapel CID would have had all the relevant paperwork on the case sent to him for him to read and then forward it on to his immediate superior and then down the line to Anderson.

I do know that Warren had dictated that Swanson was to be the hub where every paper, memo or report was to go across his desk. That nothing is to bypass his eyes. So
lets not over-egg the pudding, Reid had been transferred from J Div. to be the Local Inspector of H Div. CID, replacing Abberline who had moved up to Scotland Yard.
Reid was not in a key position to know everything about the investigation.

There is more than enough corroboration of what Reid says that no organs were missing

Reid's memory is just as deficient as all the other officers who reflect back on the case, and there is plenty of evidence of missing organs in the cases of Chapman, Eddowes & Kelly, regardless of your preference to cherry-pick what suits your theory.

[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

But Dr Bond didn't write the report Dr Hebbert did at a later date. Dr Hebbert was not involved any more after the initial post-mortem he left.

So we have another Doctor along with another senior police officer who all corroborate Reid's statement from 1896

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Can you please clarify whether you are saying that the postmortem report attributed to Dr Bond was written by Dr Hebbert.

Whoever wrote that report, it contradicts the Lloyds Weekly report you quoted about the heart being found with the breasts on the table.

The post-mortem report has the breasts in different locations and no mention of the heart being found at all.

[Trevor Marriott]

But Trevor you are only making assumptions. "He would have (this)" or "would have (that)", you have no proof of Reid's personal involvement in any other cases. Being head of a department doesn't mean you see all the evidence, you delegate others to deal with the day-to-day activities. Heads of departments are only decision-makers.
I have pointed out which murders Reid was involved in because we have written evidence of his involvement.



If another poster quoted the above you would say it can't be trusted, it's just hearsay.
You have not indicated Arnold's opinion was verbatim, it could have been the reporters assumption (I'm not subscribed to the BNA at the moment), and anything published in the New York Herald would be at best third-hand commentary.
I do recall the American press also reported Kelly's head had been removed, yet I'll bet you don't accept that detail.



Attending a crime scene after the body & organs have all been taken away does not suggest Reid had firsthand (visual) knowledge of the extent of the mutilations.
Was Reid at Millers Court on the Friday? - No.
Was Reid at the autopsy on Sat. morning? - No.
Your argument is that Reid knows the organs were not removed because he attended the crime scene after the fact.
how does that make any sense?

It makes all sense as far as Reid is concerned with regard to the Kelly murder you only have to read the report and see all the detail he describes about the murder, which is 99.9% correct apart from one small error.

and I beg to differ but Reid did attend the Kelly crime scene

You clearly don't know how the chain of command works as far as police investigations are concerned. Reid as head of Whitechapel CID would have had all the relevant paperwork on the case sent to him for him to read and then forward it on to his immediate superior and then down the line to Anderson.

There is more than enough corroboration of what Reid says that no organs were missing

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[Wickerman]

I think you are mistaken on that point firstly Reid was head of Whitechapel CID and would have had a hands on approach to the Kelly murder and all the paperwork would have first gone through him in the chain of command. He attended the crime scene. I think you are confusing his involvement or lack of direct involvement in some of the other murders...

But Trevor you are only making assumptions. "He would have (this)" or "would have (that)", you have no proof of Reid's personal involvement in any other cases. Being head of a department doesn't mean you see all the evidence, you delegate others to deal with the day-to-day activities. Heads of departments are only decision-makers.
I have pointed out which murders Reid was involved in because we have written evidence of his involvement.

Further corroboration on the missing heart would later come to prove that the heart was not taken away comes in the form of two newspaper articles, the first published in Lloyds Weekly dated November 11th 1888 which the interviewee would appear to have been Superintendent Arnold who was in overall charge of Whitechapel policing, and visited the crime scene shortly after the discovery of the body. The relevant part of the article reads “The kidneys and heart had also been removed from the body, and placed on the table by the side of the breasts.

The second piece of corroboration comes from The New York Herald dated November 10th and is a quote from Dr Gabe who also attended the crime scene while the body was still in situ: “The nose and ears were sliced away. The throat was cut from left to right, so that the vertebrae alone prevented a heads manlike severance. Below the neck the trunk suggested a sheep's carcass in a slaughter house. Ribs and backbone were exposed and the stomach, entrails, heart and liver had been cut out and carefully placed beside the mutilated trunk”

If another poster quoted the above you would say it can't be trusted, it's just hearsay.
You have not indicated Arnold's opinion was verbatim, it could have been the reporters assumption (I'm not subscribed to the BNA at the moment), and anything published in the New York Herald would be at best third-hand commentary.
I do recall the American press also reported Kelly's head had been removed, yet I'll bet you don't accept that detail.

As to Reid attending the crime scene

The Echo, 10th November 1888...

“The investigation made by the doctors yesterday was not the final one, mainly because the room was ill-adapted for the purpose of carrying out a complete autopsy. The post-mortem examination-in-chief was only commenced this morning, at the early hour of half-past seven, when Dr. Phillips, Dr. Bond, Dr. Hibbert, and other experts attended. Some portions of the body are missing, and, says an Echo reporter, writing at two o'clock this afternoon, Dr. Phillips and Dr. Bond, accompanied by Inspector Moore, Inspector Abberline, and Inspector Reid, are again paying a visit to Miller's-court, in order to examine the ashes found in the grate, as it is thought small parts of the body may have been burnt.”

Attending a crime scene after the body & organs have all been taken away does not suggest Reid had firsthand (visual) knowledge of the extent of the mutilations.
Was Reid at Millers Court on the Friday? - No.
Was Reid at the autopsy on Sat. morning? - No.
Your argument is that Reid knows the organs were not removed because he attended the crime scene after the fact.
how does that make any sense?

[Trevor Marriott]

The viscera were found in various parts viz: the uterus and kidneys with one breast under the head, the other breast by the right foot ...

(Doctor Bond)

But Dr Bond didn't write the report Dr Hebbert did at a later date. Dr Hebbert was not involved any more after the initial post-mortem he left.

So we have another Doctor along with another senior police officer who all corroborate Reid's statement from 1896

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[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

Further corroboration on the missing heart would later come to prove that the heart was not taken away comes in the form of two newspaper articles, the first published in Lloyds Weekly dated November 11th 1888 which the interviewee would appear to have been Superintendent Arnold who was in overall charge of Whitechapel policing, and visited the crime scene shortly after the discovery of the body. The relevant part of the article reads “The kidneys and heart had also been removed from the body, and placed on the table by the side of the breasts.

The viscera were found in various parts viz: the uterus and kidneys with one breast under the head, the other breast by the right foot ...

(Doctor Bond)

[Trevor Marriott]

That is a familiar enough quote Trevor, but what Reid doesn't tell the reporter is he was only personally involved in the cases of Tabram, Stride, & McKenzie, all of which were simple murder & mutilation cases which did not include organ removal.
Insp. Reid is therefore speaking of his own personal experience.

I think you are mistaken on that point firstly Reid was head of Whitechapel CID and would have had a hands on approach to the Kelly murder and all the paperwork would have first gone through him in the chain of command. He attended the crime scene. I think you are confusing his involvement or lack of direct involvement in some of the other murders

Further corroboration on the missing heart would later come to prove that the heart was not taken away comes in the form of two newspaper articles, the first published in Lloyds Weekly dated November 11th 1888 which the interviewee would appear to have been Superintendent Arnold who was in overall charge of Whitechapel policing, and visited the crime scene shortly after the discovery of the body. The relevant part of the article reads “The kidneys and heart had also been removed from the body, and placed on the table by the side of the breasts.

The second piece of corroboration comes from The New York Herald dated November 10th and is a quote from Dr Gabe who also attended the crime scene while the body was still in situ: “The nose and ears were sliced away. The throat was cut from left to right, so that the vertebrae alone prevented a heads manlike severance. Below the neck the trunk suggested a sheep's carcass in a slaughter house. Ribs and backbone were exposed and the stomach, entrails, heart and liver had been cut out and carefully placed beside the mutilated trunk”

As to Reid attending the crime scene

The Echo, 10th November 1888...

“The investigation made by the doctors yesterday was not the final one, mainly because the room was ill-adapted for the purpose of carrying out a complete autopsy. The post-mortem examination-in-chief was only commenced this morning, at the early hour of half-past seven, when Dr. Phillips, Dr. Bond, Dr. Hibbert, and other experts attended. Some portions of the body are missing, and, says an Echo reporter, writing at two o'clock this afternoon, Dr. Phillips and Dr. Bond, accompanied by Inspector Moore, Inspector Abberline, and Inspector Reid, are again paying a visit to Miller's-court, in order to examine the ashes found in the grate, as it is thought small parts of the body may have been burnt.”

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