Caine, Burr,Tumblety

[How Brown]

The following excerpt emanates from the novel written about Hall Caine.

I'm wondering if Vivien Allen,the author, intended the following to appear as if William Burr made the remarks about Tumblety and his marriage at the age of 20. There is a break in the punctuation after the word "victim" on the 5th line. To me,it appears that the author is NOT alluding to Burr being the source of the claim beginning after the word "victim" on the 5th line....but I could be wrong.

One other reason I mention this is that in SPE's book, "The Lodger" on page 196....there is no age given for when Tumblety is alleged to have been married by Conover/Dunham in his interview with the New York World.

Has anyone read the book? What do you think? Where could this age of "20" have come from ? Where,also,does the approximation of the age of his "bride" come from,since that is not in the text in SPE"s book either?

[Paul]

Hi Howard,
It's a fairly tedious biography of Hall Caine, not a 'novel', and I doubt that the author did much original research into his association with Tumblety, although there may not have much information original research would have generated; it might be worthwhile asking. The author has a website and can be contacted from there: http://www.vivien-allen.co.uk/that she could have done

[How Brown]

Dear Mr. B:

Thank you for providing a link. However,it isn't operative. No matter though......

...........I'll keep at it because I know I have not seen this age ( Tumblety's at the time of his "marriage") or the age of the alleged bride mentioned before.