Proof Maybrick Was Not The Ripper !!!

[How Brown]

Yo people ! Been waiting for the final,definitive,nail in the coffin to the Maybrickers' claim of his guilt?


http://thomasslemen.tripod.com/maybrick.html

[Peter Birchwood]

It's interesting to see Tom Slemen's piece on the ghost of Maybrick here. Years ago, Tom was going to help me out by checking some Liverpool Electoral Registers for me to show how close together various people involved in the diary fake were living. He never got round to it because he got involved in the "Claude Conder as Ripper" story and I got in his bad books by correcting his geography. The problem was that he had Conder as living in a certain road near Whitechapel in the 1880's. Regretably, that "certain road" was actually near Guildford, Surrey where Conder demonstrably lived at the time of the relevant census. There was a road of the same name in Whitechapel but you can't prove someone was a killer by mistaking where their home was!

[Jennifer Pegg]

the diary is such fun huh? :rolleyes:

[Maria Birchwood]

More like funny... as in fishy !

[R.J.Palmer]

Mr. Slemen aside, I thought it might be amusing to attempt to trace the movements of Michael Maybrick for 1888 in an attempt to give either him, or his brother Jimmy an alibi for the Ripper murders. I realize it's something of a feeble pastime.

Recently, however, I discovered that Michael Maybrick might have been touring with a Canadian-born opera singer named Madame Albani in the Autumn of 1888. Albani was a great favorite of Queen Victoria, and had a house in South Kensington. The only date I've been able to hammer down so far with any precision is the following: Michael Maybrick sang with Albani at the Synod Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, on the nights of November 23rd and 24th, 1888. It was a concert in support of "the Queen's Jubilee Trust." This was a Friday/Saturday night double engagement, which begs the question of whether or not M. Maybrick was on the road two weeks earlier, ie., on the Friday of Mary Kelly's murder. As some will recall, the Diary alludes to James Maybrick dining with brother Michael just before that crime. But were the two men even in London? (Does anyone care?)

As for Ms. Albani, she did an American "farewell" tour at the beginning of January, 1889. The group sailed for New York aboard the steamship "Servia," leaving Liverpool on January 12th. Maybrick doesn't appear to have gone on this voyage.

If anyone has any further information about Albani's 1888 schedule, or of any engagements involving Michael Mayrick, or of other concerts involving the Queen's Jubilee Trust that season, please contact me or post the information here. Thanks.

[Robert Linford]

Hi RJ

She was singing before the Queen on 29th September, apparently. Here are a couple of items from the Penny Illustrated - 6th October and 16th June 1888.
The paper has a stack of references to Madame Albani for 1888.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/system/paper/

[R.J.Palmer]

Robert - Thanks for that! If you don't mind, I'll spread the word. The hard dates for Michael Maybrick's 1888 season so far are as follows:

June 13th - St. James Hall, London.

November 21 - St. James Hall, London.

November 23 - Synod Hall, Edinburgh.

November 24 - Synod Hall, Edinburgh.

A free pizza to whoever can find him Live at Leeds on Sept. 30th. Cheers.

[Adam Went]

How:

That's all well and good, but unfortunately evidence means absolutely nothing to those who seriously consider Maybrick to be the Ripper. Apparently even a confession that the diary had been forged isn't enough....it's a waste of time trying to convince them. :rolleyes:

R.J.:

Very interesting stuff, thanks for posting it!
I'm not sure I'd be able to do much more than you've done yourself, but I'll certainly keep an eye out for any info I come across about the Maybrick's. You never know what you might accidentally stumble across!

Cheers,
Adam. :)

[Chris G.]

Hi all

An 1883 image of Madam Albani Gye (http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?category=EAPHOTOGRAPHS&object=2907262&row=51&detail=magnify) from the Royal collection.

Apparently both Stephen Adams (aka Michael Maybrick) were also pictured on Wills Cigarette cards. See http://www.historicopera.com/series_wills_cigarettes.htm

Chris