To Stewart
Ahh, I see what you are asking.
I meant only that Macnaghtne wrote a document which was his attempt to 'cut the knot' of the various countervailing pressures upon him, and the Yard, over the Ripper case, triggered by the Cutbush so-called scoop.
But he also had to factor in the surgeon's son tale rearing its head again?
By 'political masters' I did not mean that Macnaghten was sending the report, personally, to Asquith as Home Sec. over the heads of his superiors.
I meant that he would be factoring in the political implications, what with a Liberal government now in power with the potential to make trouble for the Tories over this case.
Mac did not send this document, and I do not believe that Bradford or Anderson, or anybody knew of its existence. It was filed, eg. 'mothballed'; it had no impact on anything.
In 1898, an alternate version was shown, or verbally communicated, by Mac to Major Griffiths and, later, George Sims as being the 'Home Office Report', and the definitive document of state regarding this case.
I do not believe that Sims would have written about it so effusively if Macnaghten had not misled him to believe that this was its bureaucratic status.
As we know, it was nothing of the kind.
Ahh, I see what you are asking.
I meant only that Macnaghtne wrote a document which was his attempt to 'cut the knot' of the various countervailing pressures upon him, and the Yard, over the Ripper case, triggered by the Cutbush so-called scoop.
But he also had to factor in the surgeon's son tale rearing its head again?
By 'political masters' I did not mean that Macnaghten was sending the report, personally, to Asquith as Home Sec. over the heads of his superiors.
I meant that he would be factoring in the political implications, what with a Liberal government now in power with the potential to make trouble for the Tories over this case.
Mac did not send this document, and I do not believe that Bradford or Anderson, or anybody knew of its existence. It was filed, eg. 'mothballed'; it had no impact on anything.
In 1898, an alternate version was shown, or verbally communicated, by Mac to Major Griffiths and, later, George Sims as being the 'Home Office Report', and the definitive document of state regarding this case.
I do not believe that Sims would have written about it so effusively if Macnaghten had not misled him to believe that this was its bureaucratic status.
As we know, it was nothing of the kind.
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