Diemschutz arrival

[miakaal4]

Hi Lynn,
Yes I think the list shrinks considerably, and of course Maybrick will still be on it.But who else?
Hi DVV, actually JM did 7, however the 5 in London yes.
Hi Abby,
Well we are in agreement there more or less. I think the killer may have even chosen to cross into City police territory on purpose too, the man was a real fox. But what a character! He meets Eddows with his knife barely dry, and manages to get her alone, in a very dark place, and strangle, slit the throat, mutilate and remove organs, in, if everyone is right, about 8 minutes?

[DVV]

Hi DVV, actually JM did 7, however the 5 in London yes.

Ah, ok. I stand corrected.
Thanks Miakaal

[Lechmere]

Yes Monty - I was open mouthed at your conversion to conjecture based 'Ripperology'. Very perceptive.

[Monty]

Yes Monty - I was open mouthed at your conversion to conjecture based 'Ripperology'. Very perceptive.

Indeed. However my odds are greater that the Cross as the killer idea.

Otherwise I wouldn't have dirtied my shoes on crossing to the other side of the field.

Monty

[Lechmere]

Now you have soiled yourself, could you tell me the name of your bookmaker - the prices he has given you are very odd indeed.

[Monty]

Soiled myself?

Oh no no no Ed, the excrement I wade through is purely Cross defecation.

As for odds, seeing as you back Cross, I think your backing is purely limited to the housewifes choice.

Monty

[Lechmere]

Housewives choice? More like the thinking women's crumpet.
Don't know about Cross but Charles lechmere is a sure bet for the double event. Stride and eddowes - to bring you back on topic as you constantly seem to be trying to derail threads lately.

[Monty]

Ðementia seems to be setting in early for you Ed.

I was bang on topic until you decided to try and inject a lil humour. It was you who decided to pour scorn over my post and, inturn, derail the thread.

I won't have you pulling a Phil Carter here, no matter how much you enjoy it.

Monty

[lynn cates]

J M

Hello Miakaal. Thanks.

Why should James Maybrick be on the list? Can't think of a single reason.

Cheers.
LC

[Lechmere]

Ill humour and scorn? I merely pointed out your interest in conjecture which seemed to me to be in marked contrast to the affected position you adopt on other threads.
It is a common affliction on here that critics of conjecture on theories they depreciate deplore the practice, while enthusiastically conject on theories they agree with.

[Monty]

Either put your glasses on Ed or change the font size on your I-phone.

I stated lil, as in little. Not ill.

It is a common affliction, and one which you are not immune from.

All this distraction for such a small point, and one nobody really cares about.

Well done you.

Then again, my conjecture is not aimed at an individual, more the action. I don't do condeming without damning evidence. So your accusations are really quite misleading. And that is becoming a habit of yours.

Monty

[Lechmere]

Ah yes I see know - but I would have suspected a spelling mistake.
Conject away

[Monty]

And back to Diemshitz.

Monty

[Garry Wroe]

The Casebook notes on Stride, discuss the idea that upon the arrival of Diemschutz, the Ripper took fright and hid, until the startled man left to get help, and then made off into the night. This is all very plausible and I do not doubt that is what happened.

With respect, Miakaal, you should doubt it.

It is most likely Strides killer was not disturbed by Diemshitz, and that mutilations were not on the killer agenda.

And due to that, the idea Nichols and Chapmans killer did for Stride is doubtful.

Extremely doubtful if we trust to the medical and other evidence.

[Tom_Wescott]

It is most likely Strides killer was not disturbed by Diemshitz, and that mutilations were not on the killer agenda.

I would mostly agree with this statement, except I would replace 'most likely' with 'possible', and it's certainly possible that mutilations were not the killer's intention with Stride.

And due to that, the idea Nichols and Chapmans killer did for Stride is doubtful.

However, this is a massive, huge leap of judgement. The single fact that Stride wasn't mutilated does not by any means outweigh the wealth of evidence which does suggest her murder was associated with that of Catherine Eddowes.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott