Free Zoom Talk "Who Was Jack the Ripper?" by Christopher T. George

[paul g]

Wondered where you had gone Caz, thought it was something I said

[caz]

Never, Paul.

I tend to hang around like a bad smell you can't get rid of.

[ChrisGeorge]

Never, Paul.

I tend to hang around like a bad smell you can't get rid of.

There's a lot in RipperWorld that hangs around like that.

[Scott Nelson]

What about David Cohen, Chris?

[ChrisGeorge]

What about David Cohen, Chris?

A leading candidate apparently in the mind of Sir Robert Anderson and Detective Superintendent Donald Swanson, if we believe Swanson was mistaken that Sir Robert in fact meant Cohen and not Aaron Kosminski when Swanson hand annotated Anderson's book in describing the unnamed Jew his superior meant. At least that's the line of thinking of the late great Martin Fido and Adam Wood in his recent book on Swanson. I tend though to think that the police were in the dark about who the Ripper was.

[Scott Nelson]

But what about my Cohen article you edited for me a few years ago? Didn't anything more rub off on you?

[rjpalmer]

But what about my Cohen article you edited for me a few years ago? Didn't anything more rub off on you?

It's interesting that the accounts given by Macnaghten, Anderson, Cox, and Swanson actually dovetail fairly nicely. Kelly was the last murder. The suspect was identified and sent to an asylum in early 1889.

It's only when Aaron Kosminski is thrown into the mix that it all goes badly pear-shaped.

[rjpalmer]

Of course, one problem is that Cohen was staying at the Jews' Temporary Shelter, which strongly suggests that he had no relatives in London, which makes a mockery of the Swanson Marginalia if it supposedly refers to him.

Many have tried to make it all fit together, but there's no way of doing it, unless one introduces Fido's notion of "confusion" between two different suspects.

[Scott Nelson]

..or Cohen being an anglicized version of "Kosminski", the Leman Street address actually being the Police Station... Shoehorning is never perfect by definition.

[mpriestnall]

A leading candidate apparently in the mind of Sir Robert Anderson and Detective Superintendent Donald Swanson, if we believe Swanson was mistaken that Sir Robert in fact meant Cohen and not Aaron Kosminski when Swanson hand annotated Anderson's book in describing the unnamed Jew his superior meant. At least that's the line of thinking of the late great Martin Fido and Adam Wood in his recent book on Swanson. I tend though to think that the police were in the dark about who the Ripper was.

That's the impression they were keen to give!

[ChrisGeorge]

A leading candidate apparently in the mind of Sir Robert Anderson and Detective Superintendent Donald Swanson, if we believe Swanson was mistaken that Sir Robert in fact meant Cohen and not Aaron Kosminski when Swanson hand annotated Anderson's book in describing the unnamed Jew his superior meant. At least that's the line of thinking of the late great Martin Fido and Adam Wood in his recent book on Swanson. I tend though to think that the police were in the dark about who the Ripper was.

That's the impression they were keen to give!

[mpriestnall]