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News Flash!! . . . VINCENT VAN GOGH WAS JACK THE RIPPER!!
Hello Gut. Unfortunately, not yet, but the battle continues.
Thanks for asking.
Dale
Dale!
Back to promote your potentially forthcoming book then? I'm sure it'll be a roaring success when/if you do find a publisher. Demonstrable facts are a lesser consideration in Ripper suspect books after all.
Hi Dale, I believe that Vincent applied to the London City Mission to become a missioner but was turned down, so he would have come to London for that. I dont remember the date but will try and look it up...
Maybe after his suicide Vincent got rid of the gun using the magic he used to sneak into England at a time he didn't have 2p to his name.
He didn't need magic. His brother, Theo, provided him with the finances he needed. Only about 100 francs round trip from Arles to London. He had the money to travel for each murder.
100 Francs was just a trifle to man paying 5franc a week for his hotel and who about a year earlier wrote that he had only had six hot meals in about 9 months and about the same time is reported as living on bread and tobacco, but what is 100 francs to such a man?
G U T
There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.
100 Francs was just a trifle to man paying 5franc a week for his hotel and who about a year earlier wrote that he had only had six hot meals in about 9 months and about the same time is reported as living on bread and tobacco, but what is 100 francs to such a man?
Each time Vincent received money from Theo, he thanked him for the amount in his return letter, showing how much he had received. Based on this, Vincent had the money to pay his bills and food, plus enough for his trips to London for each murder.
Vincent always wrote to Theo asking for more money and describing how he was living on coffee and bread, etc. He had many techniques for making sure Theo would send him enough for his secret travels.
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