Ripperologist 130: February 2013

[AdamNeilWood]

RIPPEROLOGIST 130 OUT THIS WEEK!
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EDITORIAL: QUARTER, HALF AND WHOLE
by Adam Wood

DAVID COHEN: TALKING POINTS OF A STORYLINE
by Scott Nelson

WHITECHAPEL’S WAX CHAMBER OF HORRORS, 1888
by Mike Hawley

THE VILLAGE BOBBY
by Pauline Morgan

THE MEN WHO WOULD BE RIPPER
by Howard and Nina Brown

RIPPER FICTION:
JACK THE RIPPER THROUGH THE MISTS OF TIME
by Peter Hodgson

CHRIS SCOTT’S PRESS TRAWL

AMAZING DOGS
by Jan Bondeson

SPITALFIELDS LIFE
by The Gentle Author

THE TRUTH

I BEG TO REPORT: NEWS ROUNDUP

VICTORIAN FICTION:
MAN OVERBOARD!
by Winston Spencer Churchill

REVIEWS
Jack the Ripper: CSI Whitechapel and more!

https://www.ripperologist.biz

[lynn cates]

champing at the bits

Hello Adam. Looks interesting. Can't wait to have a go at it.

Cheers.
LC

[Beowulf]

Looks quite interesting.

I've a friend with a Kindle. Is there any way to purchase a gift subscription to Ripperologist? I think she would very much enjoy it.

[AdamNeilWood]

Looks quite interesting.

I've a friend with a Kindle. Is there any way to purchase a gift subscription to Ripperologist? I think she would very much enjoy it.

Hi Beowulf,

Simply visit www.ripperologist.biz and on the subscriptions page click on the Kindle button... on the PayPal order page simply mention the email address you'd like the magazine to be sent to, and you're done!

Best wishes
Adam

[Beowulf]

Hi Beowulf,

Simply visit www.ripperologist.biz and on the subscriptions page click on the Kindle button... on the PayPal order page simply mention the email address you'd like the magazine to be sent to, and you're done!

Best wishes
Adam

Thank you

btw, just starting to read new issue, cover is beautiful and takes me to the scene of the crime...

[lynn cates]

kudos

Hello Adam. Kudos to Scott Nelson on his Cohen article. That is the sort of story I find quite credible.

Cheers.
LC

[Beowulf]

Hello Adam. Kudos to Scott Nelson on his Cohen article. That is the sort of story I find quite credible.

Cheers.
LC

Well, I'm not as well versed as you in this Lynn, but I quite agree. I'm actually reeling with the amazement of the fact that Cohen's surname was Kosminksi.

What a great article.

And once again, there is no photograph of the man who was possibly the ripper

[Chris]

Well, I'm not as well versed as you in this Lynn, but I quite agree. I'm actually reeling with the amazement of the fact that Cohen's surname was Kosminksi.

There's no evidence at all that Cohen's surname was Kosminski. That was just a speculative suggestion on Scott's part.

[lynn cates]

suggestion

Hello Barbara. Thanks.

I think the Cohen/Kosminski business was a suggestion based upon the cognomen of some family members.

Cheers.
LC

[Chris]

I think the Cohen/Kosminski business was a suggestion based upon the cognomen of some family members.

Yes, Scott mentions that Jacob Kozminski (the brother of Aaron's sister-in-law Betsy) went by the surname Cohen in England, as Pat Marshall discovered. But of course people with all sorts of surnames became Cohens, so I don't think we can treat that as any kind positive evidence in support of the idea that David Cohen might originally have been named Kozminski.

[lynn cates]

suggestion

Hello Chris. Thanks.

"I don't think we can treat that as any kind of positive evidence in support of the idea that David Cohen might originally have been named Kozminski."

Nor do I. I was discussing another person's suggestion.

Cheers.
LC

[GregBaron]

Clusters and nests...

Yes, the Cohen article is quite good friends. It all seems such a numbing series of cluster f*cks however, that some reject the notion due to complexity. I won't bring up our favorite what are the odds? again...

With that said, I do think this connecting of the dots is impressive and perhaps Cohen is our man. We do know for a fact that the official record is a series of mind blowing contradictions, so it's a mess to unravel the cluster....

Without trying to stir up a hornet's nest, I do think Jacob Levy could be substituted for Cohen and most of the article would still stand.....Heaven forbid.


Greg

[Beowulf]

Ok, so I will have to look more closely at what exactly makes the author think Cohen's surname was Kosminski.

It's certainly an extremely important point.

I also wonder is it really true Cohen recognized he was being watched and tried to give them the slip? That is the sort of thing that makes one wonder.

I can understand the heat was on and no one wanted to be thought the ripper and not be able to prove they weren't.

But.

[DGB]

I just wanted to pop my head in to praise the Waxworks article.

This peculiar establishment is regularly mentioned in Ripper books, as a way of indicating how the crimes grabbed attention at the time. It's almost become a stock line, one which we may skim over.

This article shed an interesting light on the subject. It was wonderfully researched and presented in a thoroughly entertaining way.

In the absence of blockbuster articles presenting brand new and startling research (which are - by their nature - rare), this is exactly the sort of article I love to read.

DavidGB

[lynn cates]

conflation

Hello Barbara. Thanks.

I think the suggestion is that there are family members named Cohen. I presume Scott was looking for another angle as to why Cohen was conflated with Kosminski. Professor Fido already tried the Kosminski/Kaminski/Cohen angle.

Cheers.
LC