Bank Holiday murders

[curious]

And who knows who else is the wrong one.

Kosminski, Cross, Druitt??

Debs, Tom,
Wasn't there some court case that a man charged Polly Nicholas (as part of a group of women) with robbing him in a low bar? As I recall the story, he had gotten off a ship, gone to a bar and she stole from him, or cheated him, or something?

It would have been discussed 4-5-maybe 6 years ago?

[Tom_Wescott]

Debs, Tom,
Wasn't there some court case that a man charged Polly Nicholas (as part of a group of women) with robbing him in a low bar? As I recall the story, he had gotten off a ship, gone to a bar and she stole from him, or cheated him, or something?

It would have been discussed 4-5-maybe 6 years ago?

Hi Curious. Not that I'm aware of. If that happened I'd love to hear about it! Polly was arrested in Itchy Park in October of 1887 along with a number of others sleeping in the park. She was described as the worst of the bunch, which must have really been saying something.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Debra A]

Hi Curious, Tom.
I must admit I don't recall either incident.
She was arrested in Trafalgar Square with a group of other vagrant women and children who gathered their regularly to spend the night and get the free food handouts from charitable organisations and the only other incident I can recall is the one where she supposedly pocketed a table knife in some sort of institution and threatened a member of staff with it (going from memory) but I don't know how accurate that particular story was.

[Fisherman]

Debs, Tom,
Wasn't there some court case that a man charged Polly Nicholas (as part of a group of women) with robbing him in a low bar? As I recall the story, he had gotten off a ship, gone to a bar and she stole from him, or cheated him, or something?

It would have been discussed 4-5-maybe 6 years ago?

Are you perhaps confusing Nichols with Coles, and the drama around Sadler?

[Tom_Wescott]

Are you perhaps confusing Nichols with Coles, and the drama around Sadler?

That's what I was thinking of.

And Debs, that article has to be accurate since you're the one who found it. It has little choice.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. Which park was also known as 'Itchy Park'? I thought it was Trafalgar Square.

[GUT]

That's what I was thinking of.

And Debs, that article has to be accurate since you're the one who found it. It has little choice.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. Which park was also known as 'Itchy Park'? I thought it was Trafalgar Square.

I thought it was Itchycoo Park

[drstrange169]

The park next to Christchurch.

[Joshua Rogan]

Itchy Park is the area coloured green on this map;

[Tom_Wescott]

Thanks, Dusty and Josh.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Joshua Rogan]

Itchycoo Park, on the other hand, was apparently Valentines Park near Ilford. By some accounts, anyway, nobody really knows for sure. It was the sixties, maybe it was just a state of mind?

[GUT]

Itchycoo Park, on the other hand, was apparently Valentines Park near Ilford. By some accounts, anyway, nobody really knows for sure. It was the sixties, maybe it was just a state of mind?

Had a lot of grass I think.

[Pcdunn]

And plenty of Mellow Yellow...

Speaking of the Seventies, I saw the fellow who started the Highgate Phantom scare on a TV show this past weekend. He's looking a bit worse for wear, like most of us Boomers are, but swears up and down he saw something in the graveyard that night...

[Rosella]

It was probably some poor vagrant that had settled down for the night in one of the vaults and objected to being disturbed. Apparently it became quite fashionable to go around Highgate cemetery in search of the Vampire. Having said that, in Victorian times there were stories of people seeing a tall man in black disappearing through one of the cemetery walls.

[RedBundy13]

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[RedBundy13]

Thanks Tom Wescott for your book! I've always thought similar and I believe that Emma Smith's murder if looked into further, could possibly lead to the identity of JTR. I'm so glad to have someone like yourself take a look at the WHOLE picture and not just bits and pieces!