Jack's been busy

[Robert St Devil]

Can you imagine her horror the day that Joe reads Sgt. James Byfield,s testimony at the Eddowes inquest...

[Coroner] What name and address did she give? - Mary Ann Kelly, No. 6, Fashion-street, Spitalfields.


If her shady past was catching up with her, Pcdunn, it wouldn,t be unusual for her to be following the story in the newspaper. But then... why wait to be caught?

If she truly stated that she was afraid to go out alone at nite paired with her fear of Jack, do you think she walked the streets? Did she take her business inside as protection against Jack?

[Pcdunn]

I don't know, it's possible. Remember, part of Kelly's story is that she had done that sort of work earlier, and had even been to Paris. Was she afraid of the gentleman who had once taken her there? If so, why?

[Robert St Devil]

Do you think her fear could be a confession that she was prostituting herself a ways prior to Joe leaving since the news reports that he is reading to her are about casual prostitutes being murdered? She obviously recognized something of herself in these women, and was afraid to be put into the same horror as them.

[Pcdunn]

Hello PCDunn.

There is that shade of foretelling similar to the Elizabeth Stride account. I wonder if they confessed these ,worries, to their priest. Btw, do you know which newspaper Joe read to her?

The coincidence of Liz being identified after her death by the philanthropist as a woman he had seen in a lodging house has always intrigued me.

I don't know which newspaper it was, but probably one of the more sensational ones, if Kelly's nightmare came from the news reports.

[Robert St Devil]

Hello PCDunn.

There is that shade of foretelling similar to the Elizabeth Stride account. I wonder if they confessed these ,worries, to their priest. Btw, do you know which newspaper Joe read to her?

[Pcdunn]

It's a valid question.

I think the comment about her nightmare might lead us to wonder if MJK was a woman on the run from a threatening male. She does seem to have a mysterious past.

[Robert St Devil]

Barring that "Lottie" was full of it, how do you interpret the bold underlined:

"I was living further up the court then. She (Mary Kelly) says `I'm afraid to go out alone at night because of a dream I had that a man was murdering me. Maybe I'll be next. They say Jack's been busy in this quarter'."

Is she saying...

-Jack's been busy in Whitechapel since August? [ie. committing murder]
-Jack's been busy around Dorset St. since September 30th? [ie. he's "known" to be trolling about the area]


ref. Kit, Kitty, Kitten by Any Aliffe