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"Robert Mann – 'the non-starter'"
By Mei Trow
A most fitting title!
As serious students of the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper' are concerned; the editor at Ripperologist that approved this article for publication is also a non-starter!
"When you put forward a possible subject as Jack the Ripper — especially a new one as I did recently with the mortuary attendant Robert Mann — you must expect to get a bit of flak."
...
"The attack that galls me most is the dismissive 'non-starter' comment. Robert Mann, says more than one blogger, is a 'non-starter'. We have all met the real non-starters already: any member of the royal family or their coterie; any foreign sailor; anyone who has no known connection with Whitechapel; M J Druitt; Michael Ostrog; Aaron Kosminski; Severin Klosowski; etc etc. The weight of evidence against any of these being the Whitechapel murderer is so huge that there is no case to answer and it is astonishing that whole books have been written about them and that they still feature in television documentaries."
So, as suspects for having been 'Jack the Ripper' are concerned; Montague Druitt and Aaron Kosminski are amongst the "real non-starters"? (my emphasis)
And the fact that "whole books have been written about them and that they still feature in television documentaries", is "astonishing"? (my emphasis)
.........
"There were an estimated 450,000 people living in the area in 1888. All the evidence points to the killer being local and being a man. That takes us down to 225,000. Interracial killing by sexual sadistic killers — such as black killing white and vice versa — is extremely rare. Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, it is unlikely that Jack was a Jew. We know that the population of Whitechapel and Spitalfields was 90 per cent Jewish in 1888. We are therefore reduced to 22,500 non-Jewish males. Of these, an unknown percentage would be children or too old to commit physical crimes such as these. A reasonable assumption would take this number down to around 10,000; huge, of course, but not impossible for a modern police force to eliminate with the use of computers and house to house enquiries.
Once we have our 10,000 we can start to look for known names and search for profiles. …"
This is rudimentary, sophomoric, 'schoolboy' bullshit! It is the sort of garbage that is produced, when the responsibility for completing a man's job, is given to a boy; i.e. a non-starter!
Ripperologist: The Journal of Jack the Ripper, East End and Victorian Studies should be embarrassed!
"There were an estimated 450,000 people living in the area in 1888."
There can be little doubt that the figure "450,000" has been derived from the stated population of the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets, in accordance with the Census of England & Wales, 1891: 451,973.
I will demonstrate, when I am able to find the necessary amount of time for doing so (hopefully, within the next week -to- ten days); that the geographic parameters of the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets, in 1888, were most inappropriate for the defining the "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper'.
I will demonstrate the same, with regard to London's 'East End', of 1888; as well as the Whitechapel Registration District, of 1888.
I will, of course, propose a set of geographic parameters, for defining the "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper'; and justify an estimation of it having been populated by approximately 580,000 persons, in accordance with the Census of England & Wales, 1891, as well as Charles Booth survey data, of 1889.
"All the evidence points to the killer being local ..."
There is not one shred of evidence suggesting anything of the sort!
The location of the deposit of Catherine Eddowes's blood-stained apron is the only tangible evidence that could possibly be perceived as suggesting as much; but it fails to do so, as it provides the investigator with little more than a vector, i.e. a direction of regress, from Mitre Square. For all we know, Eddowes's murder was on his way back to Colchester, when he dropped the apron-piece in the doorway of 108-119 Wentworth Model Dwellings, Goulston Street, Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel.
"Interracial killing by sexual sadistic killers — such as black killing white and vice versa — is extremely rare. Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, ..."
Interaction between Britons / Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles (Aryans: i.e. Caucasoid), and either Sephardim of the Iberian Peninsula / Western Europe or Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe (Semites: i.e. also Caucasoid), cannot possibly be considered "interracial" (sic) (inter-racial). And it most certainly cannot be compared to interaction between Negroid and Caucasoid; i.e. 'blacks' and 'whites'.
"Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, it is unlikely that Jack was a Jew."
Bullshit!
"We know that the population of Whitechapel and Spitalfields was 90 per cent Jewish in 1888."
Embarrassingly fallacious bullshit!
There can be no doubt that Mr. Trow plainly and simply pulled that one out of his aft end!
I will demonstrate, when I am able to find the necessary amount of time for doing so (again; hopefully, within the next week -to- ten days):
- That London's 'East End' (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 705,114) was, almost certainly, no more than ten percent Jewish
- That the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 451,973) was, almost certainly, no more than fifteen percent Jewish
- That the Whitechapel Registration District (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 74,462) was, almost certainly, no more than fifty percent Jewish
- That the actual "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper' (estimated population, in accordance with the 1891 census and Charles Booth's survey data, of 1889: ~580,000) was, almost certainly, no more than ten-to-fifteen percent Jewish
"We are therefore reduced to 22,500 non-Jewish males."
I will continue at some point, which will hopefully be, within the next week -to- ten days.
In closing, for the time being; I will reiterate that as serious students of the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper' are concerned; M. J. Trow is a non-starter!
Again; Ripperologist: The Journal of Jack the Ripper, East End and Victorian Studies should be embarrassed, by this sophomoric, 'schoolboy' inclusion.
By Mei Trow
A most fitting title!
Originally posted by Septic Blue
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"When you put forward a possible subject as Jack the Ripper — especially a new one as I did recently with the mortuary attendant Robert Mann — you must expect to get a bit of flak."
...
"The attack that galls me most is the dismissive 'non-starter' comment. Robert Mann, says more than one blogger, is a 'non-starter'. We have all met the real non-starters already: any member of the royal family or their coterie; any foreign sailor; anyone who has no known connection with Whitechapel; M J Druitt; Michael Ostrog; Aaron Kosminski; Severin Klosowski; etc etc. The weight of evidence against any of these being the Whitechapel murderer is so huge that there is no case to answer and it is astonishing that whole books have been written about them and that they still feature in television documentaries."
So, as suspects for having been 'Jack the Ripper' are concerned; Montague Druitt and Aaron Kosminski are amongst the "real non-starters"? (my emphasis)
And the fact that "whole books have been written about them and that they still feature in television documentaries", is "astonishing"? (my emphasis)
.........
"There were an estimated 450,000 people living in the area in 1888. All the evidence points to the killer being local and being a man. That takes us down to 225,000. Interracial killing by sexual sadistic killers — such as black killing white and vice versa — is extremely rare. Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, it is unlikely that Jack was a Jew. We know that the population of Whitechapel and Spitalfields was 90 per cent Jewish in 1888. We are therefore reduced to 22,500 non-Jewish males. Of these, an unknown percentage would be children or too old to commit physical crimes such as these. A reasonable assumption would take this number down to around 10,000; huge, of course, but not impossible for a modern police force to eliminate with the use of computers and house to house enquiries.
Once we have our 10,000 we can start to look for known names and search for profiles. …"
This is rudimentary, sophomoric, 'schoolboy' bullshit! It is the sort of garbage that is produced, when the responsibility for completing a man's job, is given to a boy; i.e. a non-starter!
Ripperologist: The Journal of Jack the Ripper, East End and Victorian Studies should be embarrassed!
"There were an estimated 450,000 people living in the area in 1888."
There can be little doubt that the figure "450,000" has been derived from the stated population of the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets, in accordance with the Census of England & Wales, 1891: 451,973.
I will demonstrate, when I am able to find the necessary amount of time for doing so (hopefully, within the next week -to- ten days); that the geographic parameters of the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets, in 1888, were most inappropriate for the defining the "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper'.
I will demonstrate the same, with regard to London's 'East End', of 1888; as well as the Whitechapel Registration District, of 1888.
I will, of course, propose a set of geographic parameters, for defining the "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper'; and justify an estimation of it having been populated by approximately 580,000 persons, in accordance with the Census of England & Wales, 1891, as well as Charles Booth survey data, of 1889.
"All the evidence points to the killer being local ..."
There is not one shred of evidence suggesting anything of the sort!
The location of the deposit of Catherine Eddowes's blood-stained apron is the only tangible evidence that could possibly be perceived as suggesting as much; but it fails to do so, as it provides the investigator with little more than a vector, i.e. a direction of regress, from Mitre Square. For all we know, Eddowes's murder was on his way back to Colchester, when he dropped the apron-piece in the doorway of 108-119 Wentworth Model Dwellings, Goulston Street, Parish of St. Mary Whitechapel.
"Interracial killing by sexual sadistic killers — such as black killing white and vice versa — is extremely rare. Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, ..."
Interaction between Britons / Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles (Aryans: i.e. Caucasoid), and either Sephardim of the Iberian Peninsula / Western Europe or Ashkenazim of Eastern Europe (Semites: i.e. also Caucasoid), cannot possibly be considered "interracial" (sic) (inter-racial). And it most certainly cannot be compared to interaction between Negroid and Caucasoid; i.e. 'blacks' and 'whites'.
"Since none of Jack's victims was Jewish, it is unlikely that Jack was a Jew."
Bullshit!
"We know that the population of Whitechapel and Spitalfields was 90 per cent Jewish in 1888."
Embarrassingly fallacious bullshit!
There can be no doubt that Mr. Trow plainly and simply pulled that one out of his aft end!
I will demonstrate, when I am able to find the necessary amount of time for doing so (again; hopefully, within the next week -to- ten days):
- That London's 'East End' (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 705,114) was, almost certainly, no more than ten percent Jewish
- That the Parliamentary Borough of Tower Hamlets (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 451,973) was, almost certainly, no more than fifteen percent Jewish
- That the Whitechapel Registration District (population, in accordance with the 1891 census: 74,462) was, almost certainly, no more than fifty percent Jewish
- That the actual "area", as it relates to the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper' (estimated population, in accordance with the 1891 census and Charles Booth's survey data, of 1889: ~580,000) was, almost certainly, no more than ten-to-fifteen percent Jewish
"We are therefore reduced to 22,500 non-Jewish males."
I will continue at some point, which will hopefully be, within the next week -to- ten days.
In closing, for the time being; I will reiterate that as serious students of the mystery of 'Jack the Ripper' are concerned; M. J. Trow is a non-starter!
Again; Ripperologist: The Journal of Jack the Ripper, East End and Victorian Studies should be embarrassed, by this sophomoric, 'schoolboy' inclusion.
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