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    Hi,
    This thread is pure speculation, but based on oral history, and recorded details.
    It is not a original idea that perhaps the body found on the bed was not Mary Kelly, and many students of ripperology may find any suggestion to the contary not acceptable, but lets put foreward a tonque in cheek scenerio.
    We have several intresting events , or recorded statements in conjunction with the evening/ morning of the 8th, 9th November1888, and i will list them.
    In the early hours of the 9th , several men bear Crossinghams allegedly saw a couple the female being Mary Kelly, poking fun at the reward poster close to the passage of Millers court.
    In the early hours of the 9th a well dressed man was seen with a respectably dressed young woman,accompanied by a poorly dressed woman outside Ringers the man seemingly anxious to entice the better dressed female to accompany him, but she seemed reluctant to do so.
    At around 2am, a witness, by the name of Hutchinson allegedly saw Kelly with a well dressed man [ Astracan] return to the court, with the man uttering the words.'You will be allright , for what i have told you'.
    Oral history has it that Mary Kelly, lent out her room that night to a man, for apparently 'Convenience'
    Maurice lewis allegedly saw Mjk out and about during daylight on the 9th, also Caroline Maxwell not only saw her , but spoke to her , around the same time.
    Taking just those points into consideration, i will suggest the following possibility.
    First of all, allow me to introduce a blast from my past.
    Many years ago , whilst a young teenager, i spent a period on remand, for a petty offence, and it was tradition in this centre, that when a inmate was to be released, his cell was trashed, [ inmates had free access to each cell] which meant, buttons pulled of shirts , ink spilt on the floor, teeth out of combs broken, tooth brushes snapped, etc etc.
    This was done to provide stress to the inmate that was to be released, and the anger of the discharge section.
    Knowing this i trashed my own cell, making sure that, although it looked authentic, no harm was done, so that the perpretrators would believe it had been done by others, and leave alone.
    This worked a treat, and i escaped inconvenience.
    So what if Mary Kelly had extremely good reasons to fake her own death, even if it meant murder was needed.
    That scenerio may seem far fetched, but if her situation was so desperate that only death could escape her plight, then it is not inconceivable, that the following may have happened.
    Knowing that she was in grave danger from someone, and the only way out was to appear to have died, and the only way this could happen , and for her to appear the victim , would be, to be found on her very bed, in a state where her face was destroyed, but other attributes were apparent ,such as hair length/colouring.
    Obviously i am not suggesting that Kelly was the killer, but it is possible that someone, for some reason assisted her, in the gruesome task , and if one takes all the early points into consideration , it is quite possible, that the respectable woman seen with the other couple . may have been the victim, and Kelly made herself visable on the streets, to give the impresssion that she was out and about, and it is not impossible that the whole scenerio that Hutchinson saw was infact staged , for his benefit.
    What happened in that room is of course unknown , but the fact that she was allegedly seen by at least three people on the morning of the 9th, and placing that with the other activities during the night that i have mentioned, and the savagery of the murder, the impossible, may infact be the answer to the millers court affair.
    That being the case the actual Jack The Ripper series ended after Eddowes, which would explain the apparent lull we have always discussed.
    Opinions please.
    Regards Richard.
    Also remember two other points.
    Kelly to Lottie... 'I have had a dream that i was been murdered'
    'Kelly to a young friend.' I shall make away with myself'

  • #2
    Richard,

    Where are the precedents for this? Where are the antecedents? There have been several cases of people missing for the purposes of collecting insurance, but gruesome slaughter of an innocent because you are afraid it could be you next? It is absolutely farfetched.

    Mike
    huh?

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    • #3
      It could well be that Kelly was using an assumed name, so what difference would it have made if she'd just upped-stumps and left? She could always have adopted another identity and - let's face it - it wasn't as if she was leaving much behind.
      Kind regards, Sam Flynn

      "Suche Nullen" (Nietzsche, Götzendämmerung, 1888)

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      • #4
        Hi,
        Fear is a strong emotion, it can cause people to react in many ways, whilst i appreciate my thread is speculative, it is not within the realm of impossibility, that Mjk had a desperate reason to escape the clutches of someone.
        Why not just vanish, many will say.
        But that would not assure that a hunter will not catch his prey somewhere else, and the fear of being found would still be in the victims mind.
        By apparently dying at the hands of the Whitechapel murderer in Millers court, she would escape further persecution, even if she was involved in murder as a conseqence, fear and survival is number one, if faced with a no way out scenerio.
        A bit like Hanratty, he would have sworn on the lives of all his family , if it meant escaping the gallows.
        Regards Richard.

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        • #5
          Hi Richard

          It would be reasonable to suggest that anyone living in such appalling conditions would be regularly "dreaming" of such escapes.

          Actually, falling prey to the murderer was considered as just another "option" for someone in there plight.

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          • #6
            Hi Jon,
            I agree with you, when dreams of being able to escape the horrors of lfe in that area would be a release, however that is not what i am getting at.
            For instance.
            What if Mary Kelly had a fear of someone, who she knew would proberly kill her , if she was found by them?
            What if this fear induced her to have nightmares that she was being killed?
            Fiona Kendall did also state that shortly before Kellys demise, McCarthy sent a man packing , in his own style, a man looking for Mary, saying she stole things from him.
            What if this man was the man Mary feared, and if he had traced her to Millers court, he could find her anywhere?
            All speculation, but taking all the events of that night/morning into account , who knows....
            Regards Richard.

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            • #7
              Hi Richard

              I can easily accept that Kelly may have made an enemy or two along the way. I`m just wondering what she may have done to someone to make them kill three or four women in their search for her, and then do what they did to her ? Unless, that someone was nuts to start with and it was incredibly bad luck she met the man and pissed him off, Fleming? Possibly.

              But the cold reality is that she probably did the same thing that the other victims all did, which was to be on the streets in the early hours and meet the same man.

              There does seem to be an impending doom about her, but "doing away with myself" appears to be a melodramatic Victorian phrase, like we say that "I`m gonna kill you".

              Under a microscope her life will appear desperate, she had problems, like they all did. Imagine if Sarah Lewis was murdered that night and we magnified her life and last hours, leaving her husband after a row.
              Last edited by Jon Guy; 04-18-2009, 03:21 PM.

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              • #8
                Before the end of 1888, at least one book was published in America about the murders and a probable suspect...another I believe was just in the new year.

                It seems this man fell in love with a prostitute in the mid-late 1870's.. He was also mad. He went in search of her in a large city, to "save" her from the life she was in. Along the way, he stabbed and killed other prostitutes. His love was I believe his 4th or 5th victim.

                He was caught, and placed into mental care. He was released in early 1888 and was last known to be heading to London. He disappears after that.

                Best regards all.

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                • #9
                  Joe Barnett recognised kelly at the mortuary didn't he, and i dont expect Mary was smart enough to pull this off, because if so she wouldn't have been living in Dorset st in the first place.......no this is pure fantasy only

                  i've noted in the past that MARY was scared of JTR in a fatalistic way..........did her subconscious detect JTR lurking in one of her male friends; this is quite possible because this would definitely be revealed in a dream, but you'd need to know how to interpret this message because a dream wont reveal all, it never does...... it might only give you a vague warning.

                  you could sense her death comming, yes but that's maybe because she was foolishly out and about that night/ drunk and singing in her room later on, it attracts attention; far too much........Mary attracted trouble because she was young, attractive and drunk, you see the same today with similar murders too, it's so sad... young girls while drunk are so vulnerable.

                  you can bet that the infamous Dorset st was a regular stomping ground for JTR, he would've loved strolling down that street.
                  Last edited by Malcolm X; 04-18-2009, 05:23 PM.

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                  • #10
                    Hi Richard,

                    I think the important point is that Joe Barnett was able to identify the corpse as the woman he'd been living with in what was a reasonably long-term relationship. He knew her as Mary Kelly (or Maire Jeanette) and was apparently quite happy to continue to know her by that name. Whether it was her real name or not is really immaterial. She did say that she was scared of meeting JtR, but so were probably hundreds if not thousands of East End women at that time.

                    A bit like Hanratty, he would have sworn on the lives of all his family , if it meant escaping the gallows.
                    Small point, but Hanratty begged his family to clear his name, as he knew he couldn't escape the gallows. He made no other demand upon them, so far as is known.

                    Cheers,

                    Graham
                    We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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                    • #11
                      was Kelly scared because all prostitutes were ( same with Peter Sutcliffe too) or was her subconscious trying to tell her something...... something it had detected.

                      If i was her and sober, i wouldn't have let any stranger into my room, not if i was that scared, but i might have if i was drunk, that's why i say that Blotchy ( if the ripper) was either a friend, or a very friendly stranger.. mind you, kelly was desperate for cash as well....if he was JTR then he was seen going in plus probably by others too, so this is foolish of him, but maybe because he wasn't seen well enough at the other murders/descriptions were poor, that he didn't give a damn any more, became confident.

                      so why if HUTCH was JTR, (if you follow the above arguement), did he give a damn about being seen too, well apart from the reasons that Ben and i have always mentioned, perhaps he wanted to be injected into the case as a thrill/attention seeker... because we have no similar graffiti at the Kelly murder, no cryptic messages, no shifting the blame to the JEWS............oh sorry i'm quite wrong, yes we do; we have his fully loaded statement!

                      suspicious or what, yes very much so
                      Last edited by Malcolm X; 04-19-2009, 12:06 AM.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Malcolm X View Post
                        was Kelly scared because all prostitutes were ( same with Peter Sutcliffe too) or was her subconscious trying to tell her something...... something it had detected.
                        Hi Malcolm,

                        I recall reading somewhere that Kelly was (or was said to be) frightened of meeting whoever took her to France (if indeed she ever went there). It's always struck me that the other victims of the Whitechapel Murderer appear to have been picked up purely fortuitously on the streets, and I've often wondered if Kelly met her nemesis by appointment, so to speak - after all, she had an address, for what it was worth, and anyone asking for her whereabouts could well have been directed to No 13 Miller's Court. Just a thought.

                        Cheers,

                        Graham
                        We are suffering from a plethora of surmise, conjecture and hypothesis. - Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure Of Silver Blaze

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                        • #13
                          yes, an old friend....but her saying that she went to France could be her lieing,
                          as you hinted at.

                          yes she wouldn't be hard to trace; any ex-boyfriend that new her say 2 years ago, could guess that she might live somewhere in the EAST END, because she lived close to Dorset st anyway, i cant remember where right now without looking, but it was with Joe BARNETT; if i remember she was evicted due to her heavy drinking...whatever the case, i'm roughly right and she lived close by..

                          ( i cant be bothered tonight to do any research, i'm in lazy mode )

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