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Chris Scott
05-27-2011, 06:05 PM
I read today a section of an online book about the Ripper of which a sample chapter is online.
In a section discussing the letters sent at the time the author quotes this as a contemporary offering in verse:

The Miller's Court murder a disgusting affair
Done by a Polish knacker rather fair
The morn (of the murder) I went to the place -
Had a shine but left in haste.
I spoke to a policeman who saw the sight
And informed me it was done by a Knacker in the night...

Is this genuine? I have never seen it before, especially as it names the murderer as a Pole. If real, how does it go on?
I found this in the sample chapter of the book at
http://issuu.com/penandsword/docs/jack-the-ripper

This piece of verse is on Page 13.
Phil Carter
05-27-2011, 07:20 PM
Hello Chris,

I may be way off track here.. but I vaguely remember this verse as one of very many... my memory isn't what it was however... I could be mixing it up with something else I have seen a while back.

best wishes

Phil
Chris G.
05-27-2011, 07:36 PM
Hi Chris and Phil

This piece of verse has been discussed on Casebook. See here:

The 9th november 1889 letter (http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=5464)

As Sister Hyde wrote in the thread, "The Metropolitan police received a letter on the first anniversary of Kelly's murder, the one written in 77 verses, and it was immediatly discarded as an hoax. . . ."

Chris
Nemo
05-27-2011, 08:34 PM
Hi Chris

I've transcribed it a number of times...

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=8540

http://www.jtrforums.com/showthread.php?t=10594
Phil Carter
05-27-2011, 10:10 PM
Hi Chris and Phil

This piece of verse has been discussed on Casebook. See here:

The 9th november 1889 letter (http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=5464)

As Sister Hyde wrote in the thread, "The Metropolitan police received a letter on the first anniversary of Kelly's murder, the one written in 77 verses, and it was immediatly discarded as an hoax. . . ."

Chris

Hello Chris G, Chris, Nemo,

Well, just goes to show the old memory box is still ticking over, albeit at a slow pace..lol Many thanks to Chris G and Nemo and Chris.

best wishes

Phil
Chris G.
05-27-2011, 11:32 PM
Hello Chris G, Chris, Nemo,

Well, just goes to show the old memory box is still ticking over, albeit at a slow pace..lol Many thanks to Chris G and Nemo and Chris.

best wishes

Phil


"It's déjà vu all over again" as Yogi Berra said.

Chris
Chris Scott
05-28-2011, 06:30 AM
Many thanks guys for all this info
Chris S