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Trevor,
Obsessed with Druitt ..??
How about this is a Jack the Ripper Message Board and so I am writing about the man who was probably Jack the Ripper, eg. Montague John Druitt.
Of course Druitt was on file at Scotland Yard as a suicide. What I was arguing was that Druitt was nothing to do with the Ripper investigation until years later, probably in 1891, and then not officially.
I was answering Natalie's point about police who over-reached in their later claims. Perhaps they all did.
I was just counter-arguing that Walter Dew could not have known anything about Druitt as he was never officially investigated as the Ripper, alive and dead.
In your confused, biased, apoplectic way, you argue that this somehow weakens Macnaghten's opinion. But this admission comes from Macnaghten himself in 1914.
To DVV
The hunt for Tom Sadler is one of the biggest pieces in the jigsaw puzzle.
For what it is worth, Macnaghten claimed to believe that Sadler was the killer of Coles.
Just imagine, in Feb/March 1891, what Macnaghten must have thought of the way Anderson handled the Coles inquiry if he already knew about Druitt from Farquharson?
Macnaghten pounces on the MP story, believes he has found the fiend -- though an excruciatingly inconvenient suspect who does the Yard's rep no good -- and then, a day or so later, another prostitute is murdered in Whietechapel. This would seem to disprove an hysterical Dorset family's fears, or so Anderson initially believed. It did not turn out that way, re: Sadler.
Or, Mac had simply read Lawende's description of the man seen with Eddowes and was aghast that they were bringing in this witness to 'confront' Sadler who was hardly a good match -- except that he was a Gentile sailor.
God, how desperate!? Not even a line-up.
In the cold war between Macnaghten's and Anderson's personalities you can see how Kosminski may have evolved as a suspect. The former warned his boss that Druitt was probably the Ripper, therefore to only go after Sadler for Coles. Ignoring this advice Anderson sabotaged the murder inquiry, at least in the press, by over-reaching.
Years later, Anderson's vain, fading memory resurrected this sequence of events to recast them as a triumph; this time with Lawende 'confronting' an institutionalized lunatic whose name had been one of dozens on the house-to-house list of 1888.
Anything but admit that his despised subordinate had been correct in 1891, about a suspect who had been dead since 1888.
Obsessed with Druitt ..??
How about this is a Jack the Ripper Message Board and so I am writing about the man who was probably Jack the Ripper, eg. Montague John Druitt.
Of course Druitt was on file at Scotland Yard as a suicide. What I was arguing was that Druitt was nothing to do with the Ripper investigation until years later, probably in 1891, and then not officially.
I was answering Natalie's point about police who over-reached in their later claims. Perhaps they all did.
I was just counter-arguing that Walter Dew could not have known anything about Druitt as he was never officially investigated as the Ripper, alive and dead.
In your confused, biased, apoplectic way, you argue that this somehow weakens Macnaghten's opinion. But this admission comes from Macnaghten himself in 1914.
To DVV
The hunt for Tom Sadler is one of the biggest pieces in the jigsaw puzzle.
For what it is worth, Macnaghten claimed to believe that Sadler was the killer of Coles.
Just imagine, in Feb/March 1891, what Macnaghten must have thought of the way Anderson handled the Coles inquiry if he already knew about Druitt from Farquharson?
Macnaghten pounces on the MP story, believes he has found the fiend -- though an excruciatingly inconvenient suspect who does the Yard's rep no good -- and then, a day or so later, another prostitute is murdered in Whietechapel. This would seem to disprove an hysterical Dorset family's fears, or so Anderson initially believed. It did not turn out that way, re: Sadler.
Or, Mac had simply read Lawende's description of the man seen with Eddowes and was aghast that they were bringing in this witness to 'confront' Sadler who was hardly a good match -- except that he was a Gentile sailor.
God, how desperate!? Not even a line-up.
In the cold war between Macnaghten's and Anderson's personalities you can see how Kosminski may have evolved as a suspect. The former warned his boss that Druitt was probably the Ripper, therefore to only go after Sadler for Coles. Ignoring this advice Anderson sabotaged the murder inquiry, at least in the press, by over-reaching.
Years later, Anderson's vain, fading memory resurrected this sequence of events to recast them as a triumph; this time with Lawende 'confronting' an institutionalized lunatic whose name had been one of dozens on the house-to-house list of 1888.
Anything but admit that his despised subordinate had been correct in 1891, about a suspect who had been dead since 1888.
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