So You Think You Know The W.M. ?????

[How Brown]

Starting this week...I will put up a post each Sunday ..Case related...and within it, there will be one incorrect statement ( Sort of like my regular posts,eh? )..in the paragraphs I leave behind.

YOU, dear reader, may not refer to any books....I'll know if you do,because I've got my people everywhere...so don't cheat.

For example:

On August 31st, Polly Nichols was last seen by a friend, Ellen Holland, an hour or so before she died on Bucks Row. Her used bonnet was the topic of discussion in this last bit of repartee between the two friends. Eventually she wound up being examined by Dr. Rees Ralph Llewellyn. At first, her mutilations weren't noticed. She is considered the first of Jack The Ripper's victims. She was born in 1845.

The incorrect part of this paragraph is the "used bonnet". Polly had a jolly new one or so she said.

Get the drift?

Good. Please send your answers to me via email at Donston1888@aol.com

and Nina will put together a tally sheet with your names on it.

The winner will be announced on Sunday,January 4th, 2009.

You may win a Lamborghini....or a subscription to a magazine...but you've gotta play.

The real deal starts January 6th, this Sunday.

Good luck.

[Robert Linford]

Make sure it's only ONE mistake, How.:fish:

[Chris G.]

Make sure it's only ONE mistake, How. :fish:



Quite right, Howie. We'll know if you do, because we've got our people everywhere... :whoo:

[How Brown]

Make sure it's only ONE mistake, How

Will do.... C.G. and Mr. Sticks His Saxon Nose In Everything I Do Linford.

[How Brown]

Nina will be in charge of putting up the entries each week after this first entry that follows.

Any gripes, please send 'em to her..I have all the complainin' I can handle already.

Ouch !:brick:

[How Brown]

Polly Nichols was a drab little woman. 42 years old, her red hair had begun turning mousily grey, with two bottom teeth and a top front tooth lost in fights. She stood 5 ft. 2 inches tall and maintained an alcoholic brightness and pugnacity.

Born Mary Walker, she married printer's machinist William Nichols, bore him 5 children, drank his wages, quarreled with him, and left him in 1881.-------END



Remember to send in each answer by Wednesday of this week and each week from now on ( This Wednesday, Jimmy Page's and my daughter Cara's birthday ), the 9th. Send it to:

Donston1888@aol.com

In the subject box, mark : Contest

[How Brown]

Number 2 of 52:

"Sir Jim
tin match box empty
cigarette case
make haste
my shiny knife
the whoring wife
first whore no good.."

[How Brown]

From the Irish Times ( October 2nd,1888 )

During last night and today no less than 5 men were arrested in the East End of London in connection with the murders....

.....of the two men detained at Commercial Street, one was liberated soon after his arrest, but the other, named Frank Raper, was kept in custody. It appears he was arrested late on Saturday night at a public house known as "Dirty Dicks" near Leman Street. He was standing in the bars while under the influence of liquor and made a number of extravagant statements about the murder of Mrs. Chapman and Mrs. Nichols.

[How Brown]

The youngest of 6 children born to warehouseman Charles Samuel White and wife, Elizabeth, Martha Tabram was found murdered with 39 puncture wounds to her torso in August of 1888.

[How Brown]

"The Diary alliance of Smith,Harrison,Feldman,and Caroline Morris is a seedy and uneasy union between people whose sole aim is to make as much money out of this hoax as possible..."

-Melvin Harris-

[How Brown]

Between the 26 day gap ( the Double Event to Mary Kelly's murder ), there were no reported Ripper related murders and few instances of women jostled or accosted while in the act of prostitution.

[How Brown]

I'm going to try to resurrect this thread ( Robert Linford was actually the only one to respond to it before...) and lets see if anyone else cares to participate in it:

Whats 'wrong' with this excerpt ?

TO Inspector Abberline
Scotland Yard
Jack The Ripper wishes to give himself up will Abberline communicate with him at number 39 Cutler Street Houndsditch with this end in view
FROM Jack The Ripper

This is written with the "Blood of Eddowes"
all Long Liz's blood is used up

[How Brown]

This thread has less interest than an Ostrog thread...:banghead:

Lemme try again:

"Bright's Disease was originally thought to have been caused by overindulgence in "ardent" spirits, such as gin. However, the term "ginny kidney", attributed to Sutton of the LH, is now known to be meaningless since the kidneys are not injured by alcohol..."

Okay....whats "wrong" with this paragraph?

[How Brown]

Er - Sutton never used the phrase 'ginny kidney'? -Robert Linford

You are correct,sor...but...

Who did?

[How Brown]

Senor Rees ( a.k.a. Big Jon) had the correct physician's name: Openshaw

A case of Mother Brown's@ jellied eels is on the way Jon....Congrats for getting the correct name.

[How Brown]

Whats wrong with this paragraph?

"No one has ever answered the question why this enigmatic piece of writing should have been left in Goulston Street. A possible answer links the place name with Sir William Gull. Gull delivered a series of sonnets entitled, The Goulstonian Sonnets in 1887. Theodore Goulston ( c16578-1632) was a fellow of Merton College,Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians."

[Mike Covell]

Whats wrong with this paragraph?

"No one has ever answered the question why this enigmatic piece of writing should have been left in Goulston Street. A possible answer links the place name with Sir William Gull. Gull delivered a series of sonnets entitled, The Goulstonian Sonnets in 1887. Theodore Goulston ( c16578-1632) was a fellow of Merton College,Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians."

The date 16578 has not happened yet :becky:

[How Brown]

Mike;
Thanks for spotting the typo...but no,thats not the part thats wrong in the paragraph.

[How Brown]

The winner of this "contest' was Robert Linford. That Robert won is about as surprising as heat in August or bunnies on Easter.

The "wrong" part of the paragraph was that Gull wrote sonnets. He wrote medical lectures.