Thoughts on this dissertation

[richardh]

Does anyone here subscribe to the theories suggested in this dissertation?

http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-swood.html

I was surprised by what I read. Things about entrails dangling from the ceiling, the hand mirror and the knife on the table. I was equally surprised by the assertion that the bed had been moved before the original MJK1 photo was taken AND that the bed was practically in the middle of the room with the large table in place of the small bedside table.

Do you think there WAS a mirror/knife/plates between the legs?
Were there bits of body dangling? (if so what were they dangling off?)
Were BOTH MJK1 and MJK3 bed positions moved from the position that were originally found?
WAS there a chair in MJK3?

forgive me if this has been discussed before.
R

[ChrisGeorge]

Were there bits of body dangling? (if so what were they dangling off?)

Some reports say flesh was dangling from nails.

"He cut the skeleton so clean of flesh that when I got here I could hardly tell whether it was a man or a woman. He hung the different parts of the body on nails and over the backs of chairs." (Emphasis mine)

-- statement of Inspector Moore to Philadelphia journalist R. Harding Davis, who was taken on a tour of the murder sites by the Scotland Yard inspector. As quoted in the Pall Mall Gazette, 4 November 1889

The dissertation that you cite, "The Enigmas of Millers Court" by Simon Wood, is, to say the least, controversial. Mr. Wood has proposed a number of things about the murder scene that have not been mentioned before. He might be right in his ideas, although I don't think his views are widely accepted.

Best regards

Chris

[richardh]

Thanks Chris,
You've answered my question