RipperologyKent State University Press, 2006 - 272 páginas |
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Página 48 - Simon Pure' nor do I believe that he had ever been detained in an asylum, nor lived in lodgings. I incline to the belief that the individual who held up London in terror resided with his own people; that he absented himself from home at certain times, and that he committed suicide on or about the 10 November 1888, after he had knocked out a Commissioner of Police and very nearly settled the hash of one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State.
Página 92 - 88, and been content to recommence operations by merely prodding a girl behind some 2 years and 4 months afterwards. A much more rational theory is that the murderer's brain gave way altogether after his awful glut in Miller's Court, and that he immediately committed suicide, or, as a possible alternative, was found to be so hopelessly mad by his relations, that he was by them confined in some asylum. No one ever saw the Whitechapel murderer; many homicidal maniacs were suspected, but no shadow of...
Página 90 - Cutbush to have committed this series of murders: 1. A Mr. MJ Druitt, said to be a doctor & of good family — who disappeared at the time of the Miller's Court murder, & whose body (which was said to have been upwards of a month in the water) was found in the Thames on 31st December — or about 7 weeks after that murder.
Página 5 - Ripper," was never revealed. So far as actual knowledge goes, this is undoubtedly true. But the police, after the last murder, had brought their investigations to the point of strongly suspecting several persons, all of them known to be homicidal lunatics, and against three of these they held very plausible and reasonable grounds of suspicion. Concerning two of them the case was weak, although it was based on certain colorable facts.
Página xxi - The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown, and the police were put on their mettle to discover the unknown and daring murderer.
Página 35 - ... absence abroad the Police had made a house-to-house search for him, investigating the case of every man in the district whose circumstances were such that he could go and come and get rid of his blood-stains in secret. And the conclusion we came to was that he and his people were certain low-class Polish Jews; for it is a remarkable fact that people of that class in the East End will not give up one of their number to Gentile justice.
Página 35 - I will merely add that the only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer unhesitatingly identified the suspect the instant he was confronted with him; but he refused to give evidence against him.
Página 90 - December, ie seven weeks after the said murder. The body was said to have been in the water for a month, or more — on it was found a season ticket between Blackheath and London. From private information I have 2 See Appendix B.
Página 20 - About 2 AM 9th I was coming by Thrawl Street, Commercial Street, and just before I got to Flower and Dean Street, I met the murdered woman Kelly and she said to me Hutchinson will you lend me sixpence. I said I can't I have spent all my money going down to Romford, she said good morning I must go and find some money.
Página 102 - Sometimes in their fear they would rush on to the pavement, scattering the pedestrians whether they were hale and young, or pregnant women and frail folk. Around the slaughter-houses, where the sheep were dragged in backwards by their legs, the bullocks hounded in by dogs and blows, the children would stand eager for fresh sights of blood, excited by the horror and danger of the scenes.