Mary Kelly Gives Description of JTR?

[Graham]

According to Joe Barnet, Mary Kelly said (presumably to him) that she was worried about the Whitechapel Killer coming after her, so perhaps Barnet kind of assumed that she had some knowledge of who this was, or might have been. If this got picked up by a reporter after her murder, then maybe that's the origin of the Evening World report.

Graham

[Phil Carter]

Hello Errata,

Not meaning to sound "out there" here, but that occured to me too. Could this be an early source that sheds light on the question of whether the woman killed in Miller's Court was "Mary Jane Kelly" or not?

Is this another example of the American newspapers having pieces of information and printing them that the British papers didn't? I refer here of course to the numerous examples of Tumblety, which we know all about.

best wishes

Phil

[Errata]

Wasn't she dead on November 13th?

[Phil Carter]

Hello Jon.

Would you please tell me the provenance of this Sept 19th report?

best wishes

Phil

[Jonnieola]

I don't recall an instance where we know of Mary Kelly talking to the police.
Unless it was while she lived with Joe Barnett.

Mary Jane Kelly was fined 2/6 by the Thames Magistrate Court on September 19, 1888 for being drunk and disorderly.

Whether this was THE MJK isn't proven and if it was MJK did she have a conversation with the police regarding the Whitechapel murders?

And as she was arrested and drunk and disorderly at the time would anyone have listened to her?

I'm intrigued. Admittedly it doesn't take much....

[mklhawley]

Sounds to me like they clearly got their facts wrong. Another possibility which would be a great consiracy theory idea is that MK left a few signs at the crime scene! ...sorry, I've been staying up late watching a few too many movies. If the Evening World did get it right, maybe it was a different Mary Kelly.

Mike

[Wickerman]

I don't recall an instance where we know of Mary Kelly talking to the police.
Unless it was while she lived with Joe Barnett.

[Phil Carter]

Hello Mike,

Interesting..I for one have never seen that before. Odd too.

best wishes

Phil

[mklhawley]

Greetings all,
I found a one-line news summary in The Evening World (New York, N.Y.), November 13, 1888, stating:

Mary Kelly gives a description of the supposed Whitechapel murderer to the London police.

Has anyone seen this report before? Did The Evening World later recant this statement?

Sincerely,

Mike