Review of Holmgren's article in Ripperologist 172

[Geddy2112]

Okay so who is this? Why would they consider it to be 'our' Robert Paul? Apparently they are a 'professional' researcher

[rjpalmer]

Okay so who is this? Why would they consider it to be 'our' Robert Paul?

Note the trial date: 1 May 1871.

This was held at the Central Criminal Court in London ('The Old Bailey').

The trial record shows he was a 27-year-old sailor who had just arrived from Southampton aboard the Bard of Avon.

It's not the Buck's Row carman, who was only about 13 or 14 in 1871 and can be found in that year's census.

This same Robert Paul below ended up in Wormwood Scrubs in the 1880s. Wrong dude. No doubt about it.

[Geddy2112]

Wrong dude. No doubt about it.

Fair enough, like I said this 'professional researcher' was very convinced they had found 'our' Robert Paul with a criminal record as a 15 year old. The rest of the article about his wife and kids seems to add up.

[Simon Wood]

Robert Pawle, aged 24, who in 1881 lived at 30 Foster Street, was born in 1857 and would have been 14 years old in 1871. He died in 1922.