Tom:
I ought to know the answer without thinking twice...and while I'm not positive, I lean toward that imaginary victim appearing earlier than the Millers Court Murder in the papers.
On Oct. 1st 1888? If they're including the very recent NSY embankment discovery, its strange that the cable didn't mention it with the other two murders.
Best Wishes,
Cris Malone
______________________________________________ "Objectivity comes from how the evidence is treated, not the nature of the evidence itself. Historians can be just as objective as any scientist."
The first murder at Christmas passed without much notice, and no evidence of identification was adduced at the inquest. A wholly satisfactory explanation of the cause of death was not forthcoming, but in some respects the nature of the injuries sustained had a resemblance to those which were inflicted upon the three other women who have since succumbed to violence of a most revolting character.
What was to become the named "Fairy Fay" in 1950 was already being misreported in the press before the murders of Sept. 30, 1888 - a progressive confusion regarding the attack on Margaret Hames mentioned also by the press (Llyod's I believe) during the Emma Smith inquest.
Best Wishes,
Cris Malone
______________________________________________ "Objectivity comes from how the evidence is treated, not the nature of the evidence itself. Historians can be just as objective as any scientist."
According to this report in the New York Evening World, the pre-Emma Smith victim was murdered before October 12th,1887.....
Hi How
I think the Writer/editor of this slightly later article reasoned the same way as you did;- (first posted by Chris Scott, IIRC)
'New York Tribune 11 Nov. 1888 The history of the reign of horror which now paralyzes all London with a panic of fear reaches back for a year. The mutilator's first success was achieved early in the month of October 1887'
'Early in the month of October' = pre 12th October
I think the Writer/editor of this slightly later article reasoned the same way as you did;- (first posted by Chris Scott, IIRC)
'New York Tribune 11 Nov. 1888 The history of the reign of horror which now paralyzes all London with a panic of fear reaches back for a year. The mutilator's first success was achieved early in the month of October 1887'
'Early in the month of October' = pre 12th October
Looks like a case of one New York source copying another and repeating the same error.
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