The perfect witness who won't testify

[Simon Wood]

Hi Lynn,

Well done.

Interesting. And a connection to Whitechapel.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

etwas mehr

Hello Simon. A bit more history.

Cheers.
LC

http://www.german-ymca.org.uk/about-us-history.html

[lynn cates]

Hello Simon. Where is Providence Hall in Finsbury Square? (see entry #689)

Cheers.
LC

http://books.google.com/books?id=T1mynR4pGoYC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=christian+home+28+finsbury+square&source=bl&ots=IkInuD4U7p&sig=oeKjLUHn8HHy8b7TFgk5Xrc3GXU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8oKrUNSjGIqc2QXB2YG4CQ&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=christian%20home%2028%20finsbury%20square&f=false

[lynn cates]

history

Hello Simon, Errata. Here's an historical link.

Cheers.
LC

http://books.google.com/books?id=Zf9DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=christian+home+28+finsbury+square&source=bl&ots=M1SdapiO8z&sig=N3YK2iEUCB53--baLqMrywOJLPY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mYGrUPjQBtC3qAGL7IHwCQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=christian%20home%2028%20finsbury%20square&f=false

[Errata]

Hi All,

Also at 28 Finsbury Square was the "German Association", listed in various books as being of a Christian persuasion.

Regards,

Simon

Weren't those types of places for immigrants? I think Wirtofsky had to have been British born. People tend not to give their kids names their language cannot pronounce, and Polish (and Yiddish) have no J sound. I'm still not solid on why the name was written out as Wirtofsky as opposed to Virtofsky, but the poor Germans have enough problems with spelling, I can't really lay into them for that. It's just unsporting.

[lynn cates]

better

Hello Simon. Thanks. Better still.

Cheers.
LC

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

Also at 28 Finsbury Square was the "German Association", listed in various books as being of a Christian persuasion.

Regards,

Simon

[Errata]

Hi All,

In 1888 the YMCA was at 28 Finsbury Square.

Regards,

Simon

Which I suppose begs the question, what was a successful married businessman doing at a YMCA?

[Errata]

Hello Errata. "Finsbury."

Cheers.
LC

Hell. Substitution error. I was watching a history of Scotland thing when I was typing.

[lynn cates]

bingo

Hello Simon. And I daresay that is the place.

Cheers.
LC

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

In 1888 the YMCA was at 28 Finsbury Square.

Regards,

Simon

[lynn cates]

Finsbury

Hello Errata. "Finsbury."

Cheers.
LC

[Tecs]

One example is the 200-mile carburetor. From about the 1920s, until fuel injection became standard, almost everyone "knew," somehow, that car manufacturers knew how to make a carburetor that would let a car get 200mpg (the best a carburetor even got was about 25mpg, and when the legend sprung up, it was more like 10mpg; for Brits, that's about 84 liters per kilometer, I think). The unnamed "car companies" wouldn't manufacture it, though, because they were being paid off not to, by the oil companies.

Hello all,

While I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories as a rule, I do believe that car manufacturers do make cars with too many gears. I know we have a lot of American people on the boards and I don't know how cars over there differ but here in the U.K. I drive 30,000 miles a year and only really use the odd gears ie 1st-3rd-5th. This sees me through almost every situation. Think about it, 1st will take you easily up to 20 mph, you can comfortably take 3rd at 20 which will take you up to 45mph and you can easily select 5th from 35-40 (or at least on my cars you can) People do seem to have a weird attitude to gears though, I heard a guy on the radio saying that he was done for speeding doing 40 in a 30 zone. His excuse was that his car chugs along and rattles if doing 30 in 5th gear. The idea of changing down didn't seem to occur to him. I also overheard a man on the radio enquiring whether going along doing 30 in 3rd gear would damage the car. And he was an ex driving instructor! (It won't)

So, if we don't need all those gears, surely they're not there to encourage people to rev up in 1st, rev up in 2nd etc and use more fuel? A manager of mine once said that my mpg figures were measurably better than anyone else in my team....


But to get to the point! Many people who consider themselves neither prejudiced nor patronising in fact are. I know some Christians who are very nice people but who are so convinced that they are right that they can't take on board other peoples opinion. They are not nasty, arrogant people they are just very, very focussed and comitted. So I can easily imagine Robert Anderson hearing about the guy who wouldn't testify and putting it down to his Jewishness. He may even have been corrected and told, "No Sir, it's because he just wasn't sure." But actually thought "No, it's because he was Jewish and didn't want to hang a fellow Jew. Whatever anyone says."

That would explain it wouldn't it?

regards,

[Errata]

Well, I imagine there's one way to check. Does anyone know if Finlay square was residential or commercial?

[lynn cates]

report

Hello Stephen. Your wish is my command, Effendi.

Below:

Copy A49301D
Dresden
11 December 1888
My Lord,
Regarding American German, Julius I. Lowenheim, came here this morning with a statement respecting the Whitechapel murders. He said that shortly before the occurrence of the first crime he became acquainted in a “Christian Home” in Finsbury Square, with a Polish Jew one Julius Wirtkofsky, who, after consul[ting] him on a special pathological con[dition] told him that he was determined to kill the person con[cerned and] all the rest of her cl[ass] informant added, that he had recently addressed the London Police Authorities on the Subject, without having received an answer.
He further said that he could throw no light on the subsequent movements of Wirtkofsky, but that he could identify him without fail.
Lowenheim stated that his address, after the next few days would be, Poste Restante Nuremburg. It of course struck me that I had heard a similar [] before, and that the youth’s object was to accomplish a journey to London, gratis.
However, he showed no anxiety in that respect, and the impression which he made upon me was not unfavourable.
[signature &c. illegible]

Cheers.
LC