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    Charles Bromby

    Charles Bromby

    Cullen's book called my attention to the following... this letter to the editor is supposed to appear in the Times, and was mentioned in the Evening News of September 28 (although I can't find it in the BNA, Bruce Collie found it for me in a book called "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper: The London Newspapers, The Whitechapel Killer and The Autumn of 1888" by H. L. Hanna)

    "The theory of the coroner is too horrible; but those of us who remember the days of Burke and his pitch plaister murder of poor boys for the sake of their bodies may well accept it. Have the remains of the other murdered woman been exhumed to confirm the suggestion, and to connect the three murders with the same diabolical trade?

    C.H. Bromby, Bishop."

    This letter should have been published in the Times right after Mr. Baxter's inquest, that is, between the 26th and 28th, but I need the exact date and I don't have access to the Times... someone who can check it for me? I would be very grateful.

    By the way, this Reverend Bromby is a very interesting character, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1864 to 1882.​​
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    Jose

    Date: Friday, Sept. 28, 1888
    The Times (London, England)
    Issue: 32503

    Bromby's letter follows a longer letter on the same subject from James Risdon Bennett of 27 Cavendish Square
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Debra Arif View Post
      Jose

      Date: Friday, Sept. 28, 1888
      The Times (London, England)
      Issue: 32503

      Bromby's letter follows a longer letter on the same subject from James Risdon Bennett of 27 Cavendish Square
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      Thanks Debra

      I appreciate it​

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      • #4
        Hi Jose,

        The Times 28th September 1888.

        Click image for larger version Name: THE TIMES 28 SEP 1888.jpg Views: 31 Size: 115.4 KB ID: 602570

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Simon Wood View Post
          Hi Jose,

          The Times 28th September 1888.

          ​​​​​​Hey Simon, long time.

          Thank you

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          • #6
            ‘Pitch Plaister’ is a new one on me.

            A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.
            https://wellcomecollection.org/works/emnr8yzq

            The Oxford English dictionary defines "pitch-plaster" as "A dressing containing pitch, used as a depilatory. Also: a dressing containing Burgundy pitch, used in the treatment of chest and rheumatic disorders" and cites J. Theobald, Every man his own physician, 1764, "Scald head. Cover the head with a pitch plaster spread on leather"; also Times 3 Dec. 1913, "There circulated stories of gangs..whose business it was to attack lonely travellers, apply pitch plasters to the mouth and nostrils, strangle their victims, and sell the bodies". In another satirical print about bodysnatchers, dated 1829, both Britannia and the British lion have their mouths gagged with pitch-plasters ('The constitution of John Bull destroyed by the combined efforts of the Burkites', Wellcome Library catalogue no. 663317i, British Museum catalogue of political and personal satires no. 15708)



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            • #7
              Originally posted by Gary Barnett View Post
              ‘Pitch Plaister’ is a new one on me.

              A man walking along a country path is attacked by a bodysnatcher hiding behind a brick wall, who asphyxiates him by thrusting a heart-shaped plaster in his face. Coloured etching by Dickey Fubs, 1828.
              https://wellcomecollection.org/works/emnr8yzq

              The Oxford English dictionary defines "pitch-plaster" as "A dressing containing pitch, used as a depilatory. Also: a dressing containing Burgundy pitch, used in the treatment of chest and rheumatic disorders" and cites J. Theobald, Every man his own physician, 1764, "Scald head. Cover the head with a pitch plaster spread on leather"; also Times 3 Dec. 1913, "There circulated stories of gangs..whose business it was to attack lonely travellers, apply pitch plasters to the mouth and nostrils, strangle their victims, and sell the bodies". In another satirical print about bodysnatchers, dated 1829, both Britannia and the British lion have their mouths gagged with pitch-plasters ('The constitution of John Bull destroyed by the combined efforts of the Burkites', Wellcome Library catalogue no. 663317i, British Museum catalogue of political and personal satires no. 15708)


              I was precisely looking at this a few hours ago

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              • #8
                The man looks like John Bull.

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