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How Brown
05-10-2009, 09:21 AM
An article found in a Dallas newspaper during the murders....it also features Inspector Byrnes of the NYPD.

Monomaniac


Dallas Morning News
Oct.13,1888
The Whitechapel Murderer


http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1077BCBE4E3F1070/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED (http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/1077BCBE4E3F1070/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED)
Nemo
05-10-2009, 01:28 PM
That's a coincidence - I was going to ask Jon what monomania was but I looked it up instead - It seems to be "obsessive" behaviour to me with a marked obsession for one subject

Interesting that it seems to equate with modern "fetishism" in regard to shoe collecting etc
SirRobertAnderson
05-10-2009, 01:51 PM
It seems to be "obsessive" behaviour to me with a marked obsession for one subject



Hutchinson ?
How Brown
05-10-2009, 03:55 PM
Nemo,Bob...

Thats what it appeared to indicate to me in that story as well.
Currerbell
05-12-2009, 11:15 AM
well mono means 'one thing' doesnt it?