Steve Powell's New "The Hoax of JtR" Book Is Out...

[caz]

Indeed so, Limehouse.

It's getting a bit like the ripper case itself, where famous personalities get fingered as the man most wanted when they are in no position to defend themselves, and their only known 'crime' may be to have been as interested as we all are in who was really responsible.

Nick Warren, like Harris (and not unlike Powell), once claimed to know the identities of three people who supposedly conspired together to create the diary - and one of them was not our Jeremy.

As it's most unlike Warren to be funny, and this badly written article fingering a truly smart and generous man as the diary author is no exception, I can only imagine this is a seriously desperate and mean-spirited theory that shows he never did have a bloody clue who wrote the diary and still doesn't.

You watch - when I croak there'll be some resentful twat claiming it was me and coming up with anagrams from my posts to prove it.

Love,

Caz
X

[Supe]

Caz,

You watch - when I croak there'll be some resentful twat claiming it was me and coming up with anagrams from my posts to prove it.

You needn't worry. My first thought when I heard about the article was that if Jeremy had written it, the Diary would have been a lot more entertaining. The same would apply if you had written it.

As ro what Nick was thinking when he threw the aricle together . . . well this is the first time people have been talking about a recent issue of Ripperana in years.

Don.

[Carol]

Archac and others,

Clearly, you have not been privy to Steve and Victora's fable as it unfolded on these pages the past few years. Steve made the story up as he went along, or as he would put it suddenly "remembered" new details. Originally, an an eminent Ripperologist was going to be fingered but since he was (thankfully) still alive and in a position to sue it was "remembered" it was really the conveniently dead Paul Feldman who was responsible. And each step of the way Victoria would herself suddenly "remember" things as well.

It was a shoddy piece of work by the pair all along and continues so. I would strongly urge anyone not to support this effort and not buy the book. To paraphrase Cicero about Catiline, you have abused our patience long enough Steve so just go away.

Don.

Dear Don,
As a one-year old baby in all things 'Casebook' your post has really wetted my appetite to read Steve Powell's infamous book. I await receiving it with bated breath!
Carol

[Supe]

Carol,

As a one-year old baby in all things 'Casebook' your post has really wetted my appetite to read Steve Powell's infamous book.

If this is true then I recant everything I said. I would truly hate to believe I was responsible for him getting a farthing of royalty payments for his execrable exercise in character assasination.

Please, rethink your decision.

Don.

[Carol]

Carol,

As a one-year old baby in all things 'Casebook' your post has really wetted my appetite to read Steve Powell's infamous book.

If this is true then I recant everything I said. I would truly hate to believe I was responsible for him getting a farthing of royalty payments for his execrable exercise in character assasination.

Please, rethink your decision.

Don.

Hi Don,
Sorry, but I ordered the book two days ago.
Carol

[Steve Powell]

The loathing of Steve Powell

Dear Troopers,
As much as I loath coming here to defend myself,
I am not going to let certain ignorant and selfish ones here
try to tell others that what I have to say regarding my knowledge
of the diary hoax is a complete and utter fabrication,
without having my say in the matter.
I am an honest and truthful man and I am not publishing
my book for material gain or personal prestige.
I have been dealing with publishers for years
and know that money is a rarity in this field
and have never thought that I would make money
from my published endeavours at any time, past, present or future.
The truth and nothing but, is my motive for writing, nothing else.
From the very moment I posted on the casebook here,
I have been targeted by certain individuals
and have had to put up with all sorts of insults and inuendos.
Now, this is fine by me to a certain extent as I knew the information
that I hold would be subjected to all forms of critisism and rebuke.
But it has never swayed me from my mission of giving those
who want to know the absolute truth of the diary, the real thing.
I have never stated that Donald Rumbelow was involved
in the hoaxing of the diary for a start, that is an untruth
perpertrated by Caroline (caz), and shame on her
that she has pushed this lie to others.
As for incriminating others that have died and are not
able to defend themselves?
Would those seeking the truth not want to know,
just because the hoaxers are no longer around? I don't think so.
And besides that, there are others who are still alive
today that were involved in it.
I say to those that really want to know how the diary
came to be and by whom foisted it on the world,
to read my book.
As I said before, I dont care if you beg, borrow or buy it,
just read it.
And for the likes of those here whom have no qualms
in calling me a liar and continue to heap their ignorant
rubbish upon me for trying to tell the truth?
They are just fools to me, to you, and to themselves.
May the universe give them wisdom and insight some day.

Be well Troopers.

Steve Powell.

[Tom_Wescott]

I am not publishing
my book for material gain or personal prestige.
I have been dealing with publishers for years
and know that money is a rarity in this field

Must be the pu$$y then.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Mike Covell]

Must be the pu$$y then.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Archaic]

Strange Brew, Redux

Hi, Don; thanks for the caution. I understand what you are trying to say. I just want to assure you that my view of the Maybrick Diary is of a somewhat different nature than it seems to be for most members of the 'Ripper community'.

I don't believe that James Maybrick wrote the Diary; nor do I believe that he was the Ripper.

But my interest in the Diary relates more to its nature as a modern socio-historic-psychological phenomenon, if that makes sense. I find it amazing that the arguments back and forth over the Diary have gone on for 17 years and sparked countless debates and even perpetual feuds- feuds I certainly don't want to get sucked into, I hasten to add!

I'm not afraid to read material I disagree with; in fact, I've already read so much that I disagree with and find unbelievable and unconvincing that feel I should be thorough & hear all sides.

I often wonder if some day the Maybrick Diary Controversy itself will be studied by historians, and how all this will appear to them- especially when viewed through the magical telescope of hindsight.

I expressed my feelings on this subject last May in the following post:

I'd actually like to read this book. I'm curious to hear what Mr. Powell has to say.
I suppose I see the Maybrick Saga as a sort of 20th C. reverse version of the Tichborne Claimant.

When someone like me looks at it now, in 2009, with an overall view and as an 'outsider' with no past personal involvement and no axes to grind, it's one big convoluted psycho-cultural-historical mess of... gee, I don't know what... Strange Brew. -Archaic

Best regards, Archaic

[Joseph]

Dear Troopers,
As much as I loath coming here to defend myself,
I am not going to let certain ignorant and selfish ones here
try to tell others that what I have to say regarding my knowledge
of the diary hoax is a complete and utter fabrication,
without having my say in the matter.
I am an honest and truthful man and I am not publishing
my book for material gain or personal prestige.
I have been dealing with publishers for years
and know that money is a rarity in this field
and have never thought that I would make money
from my published endeavours at any time, past, present or future.
The truth and nothing but, is my motive for writing, nothing else.
From the very moment I posted on the casebook here,
I have been targeted by certain individuals
and have had to put up with all sorts of insults and inuendos.
Now, this is fine by me to a certain extent as I knew the information
that I hold would be subjected to all forms of critisism and rebuke.
But it has never swayed me from my mission of giving those
who want to know the absolute truth of the diary, the real thing.
I have never stated that Donald Rumbelow was involved
in the hoaxing of the diary for a start, that is an untruth
perpertrated by Caroline (caz), and shame on her
that she has pushed this lie to others.
As for incriminating others that have died and are not
able to defend themselves?
Would those seeking the truth not want to know,
just because the hoaxers are no longer around? I don't think so.
And besides that, there are others who are still alive
today that were involved in it.
I say to those that really want to know how the diary
came to be and by whom foisted it on the world,
to read my book.
As I said before, I dont care if you beg, borrow or buy it,
just read it.
And for the likes of those here whom have no qualms
in calling me a liar and continue to heap their ignorant
rubbish upon me for trying to tell the truth?
They are just fools to me, to you, and to themselves.
May the universe give them wisdom and insight some day.

Be well Troopers.

Steve Powell.

Very impressive Steve. I have read many of your postings and you come across strongly as a humorous, truthful and decent bloke. I trust you a hundred times more than the infamous Caz and her stooges. May justice and truth reign supreme especially in this cynical world.

[Ally]

Powell,

You are full out liar. No, you never got around to making a DIRECT accusation against Rumbelow like you have done against Feldman because the minute you even HINTED that was where you were going, you were jumped on and stomped SO thoroughly that you suddenly remembered it had been Feldman (conveniently dead) and not Rumbelow who you "remembered" as being involved in the diary.

You and your entire fabrication is a despicable exercise in your own ego.

[Ben]

You watch - when I croak there'll be some resentful twat claiming it was me and coming up with anagrams from my posts to prove it.

We needn't wait that long, Caz.

Your Peter Ustinov tagline quote:

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

...is, after all, an anagram of:

"Yes, fine bogus diary annoys foul micey wimps"

But then it takes one heck of a "resentful twat" to notice such things.

[caz]

Nice one, Ben.

I have never stated that Donald Rumbelow was involved
in the hoaxing of the diary for a start, that is an untruth
perpertrated by Caroline (caz), and shame on her
that she has pushed this lie to others.

Eh? Where did that one come from, Stevie Baby? I don't recall 'perpertrating' anything of the sort. Where is your evidence? Same place all your other evidence is - up your bum?

And if you think Don Souden or Ally would have any lies pushed on them by me, you are even more seriously astray on all things diary than I thought.

If one person has ordered your book, how many more will have to order it to make it worthwhile to print? And how soon can your first victim expect to see it?

Love,

Caz
X

[caz]

Very impressive Steve. I have read many of your postings and you come across strongly as a humorous, truthful and decent bloke. I trust you a hundred times more than the infamous Caz and her stooges. May justice and truth reign supreme especially in this cynical world.

Only a hundred times more, Joseph? We're obviously slipping.

Love,

The Infamous Caz and her stooges
X

[Archaic]

Love,
The Infamous Caz and her stooges
X

Gee whiz, Caz, I've always wanted my own team of Stooges...

I'm jealous!


Yours enviously, Archaic