Mary Kelly's Room

[DVV]

Or what???
Another stupid book tells us that the "M" means "Melville" or "Macnaghten". The only coincidence I can see here is the common use of such an "argument" by cheap historians.

Amitiés,
David

[Soothsayer]

I can see an apparent "FM" in some versions of the photograph, sure, but I know there are natural means by which such a phenomenon, and the interpretation of it, might come about.

Sam,

You can see an apparent 'FM' in some versions of the photograph, and the diary makes an 'apparent' reference to them.

Either a truly remarkable coincidence (like no other!), or the original inspiration for the whole Maybrick fraud, or ...

No, I can't bring myself to say it. The abuse hurts me so.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello David!

Ronald McDonald as the Ripper?! My God...

Well, at least he ripped me off with his hamburger!

All the best
Jukka

[DVV]

The shape of the M on the wall irresistibly leads me to a MacDonald's restaurant.

Amitiés,
David

[Fisherman]

Sam Flynn writes:

"They obviously used Swiss cheese - of the holey variety."

Is there not a warning flag or something that you could mark these posts of yours with, Sam?

The best!

Fisherman

[Fisherman]

Bailey writes:

"...and in odd humour"

A good thing that I read it all through before answering, Bailey!

The best!
Fisherman

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Tom!

There simply are not enough people named Mike posting on the Casebook these days.

Yours truly,

Mike Wescott

I wonder, what Michael Moore would make of it!

All the best
Jukka "Mike" J.R-ahde

[Bailey]

Just on a side note, Mike: "It" is there, alright - the thing is that "it" in all probability is nothing but the result of blood spurting onto the wall.

Ah, but what if, as per the argument many folks make re the GSG, it was already there, Sir Jim saw it and decided, "That'll do me!" He didn't put it there, but claimed it anyhoo.

Cheers,

"Mike" Bailey

(Early morning, sick as a dog and in odd humour)

[Tom_Wescott]

Perry "Mike" Mason, Mike Covell, the Good Michael, Mike74...

There simply are not enough people named Mike posting on the Casebook these days.

Yours truly,

Mike Wescott

[The Good Michael]

They obviously used Swiss cheese - of the holey variety.

Damn!

Mike

[Sam Flynn]

What about the grilled cheese sandwich whose toasted area looked like Jesus? Try and explain that away, naysayer

They obviously used Swiss cheese - of the holey variety.

[The Good Michael]

Gareth,

What about the grilled cheese sandwich whose toasted area looked like Jesus? Try and explain that away, naysayer!

A Believer

[Sam Flynn]

If you want something to stay a mystery or dismiss a theory of course you will say it's not there.
There are believers and disbelievers, thats why this would never be solved in a million years!

It's not quite a matter of "belief and disbelief", Mike. I can see an apparent "FM" in some versions of the photograph, sure, but I know there are natural means by which such a phenomenon, and the interpretation of it, might come about. In that very real sense, I have no desire for it to remain a mystery - because I have an explanation for it. An explanation which, furthermore, ties in rather well with eyewitness observations at the time (viz., the blood having struck, in a number of separate splashes, the wall to the right of the corpse). The perpetuation of the mystery, inasmuch as it exists, is rather more the preserve of those who believe - or want to believe - that it's a message from the killer.

[Fisherman]

Just on a side note, Mike: "It" is there, alright - the thing is that "it" in all probability is nothing but the result of blood spurting onto the wall. It´s much the same as lying on your back on a summers day, looking at the clouds and interpreting them as all sorts of things.

All the best,

Fisherman

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Mike!

This debate is like saying, that the one shooting Kennedy had carved "L.H.O." on the Carcano in 1963...

Had there been any letter formations as clear as people indicate with "F" and "M" (and some even "H"), most obviously there would be contemporary notes about it!

All the best
Jukka