The Devil's Derelicts

[Debra Arif]

Thanks Nemo and How for putting all this on the boards. (and for emailing them, Nemo)
I'm still away with the fairies at the moment and struggling to get back into things and find time to read everything, but will be back to normal soon...hopefully.

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

That's great Howard, thanks for that

Elsewhere he refers to a low lodging house as a "Padding Ken"

Also, it's a little unclear where the expression "red herring" originates and there is a description of a tramp who offers him some "two-eyed steak", and when he asks what that is, the tramp says "Goldfish, or "red-herring"" which they share on a sandwich

[Howard Brown]

Second attempt :

[Howard Brown]

Nemo;

Thanks for sending them. That is the best I can do without distorting the scans.
The viewer could enlarge his or her screen if necessary.

[Howard Brown]

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

Apologies - I'm a bit simple

Howard will post the images shortly - Thanks Howard!

[Howard Brown]

Neems....

If you want me to, I'll photobucket those attachments.
Drop 'em in an email.

[Howard Brown]

Welcome back Debs !
Thanks for the depiction.

[Debra Arif]

Another reference to the incident Debra Arif brought up before...

Illustrated Police News
December 17,1892
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[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

Yes - lol

I'm surprised his name hasn't cropped up previously in a number of circles, politics, religion, crime, theatre, sport, he's done it all

He seems to know a lot of politicians

He doesn't appear to have had any schooling or experience in criminology

He seems expert at BS-ing to the masses, such as when he was a quack's assistant

[Phil Carter]

He was surgically knowledgeable

It's not him is it? - lol

Hello Nemo,

Well, with that name, there WOULD be a reason for a cover-up at the highest level!! haha

kindly

Phil

[Robert Linford]

Blimey, a new RDS!

[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

Robert, Harcourt says he was married "not long before" this incident

He's very sketchy on dates

Everyone probably has the impression, same as I had, that Harcourt is quite respectable

However, in his autobiography, he relates how his morals were very low until he found Jesus - it's that type of tale

Up to and beyond his marriage, he was a brawling drunk by the sound of it which puts him at over 40 years of age before he realised he was a bit of a waster

He was a skilled boxer and put it to good use on the street

The man he killed was a member of the opposing political party who had heckled him previously

After Harcourt had put him down verbally, the heckler promised to give Harcourt a good hiding

Harcourt was not particularly political and was only employed as a speaker due to his eloquence

He didn't get paid and was dropped like a stone by his candidate, who left him in the lurch after promising him many things after the election

Harcourt says that when anyone mentioned politics again, he got into a bit of a rage

It was then that he met the heckler in a pub and got into the fight

Here's a quote in regard to the Theosophists...

"Madame Blavatsky, and Mrs Besant I knew personally, and upon their pernicious edifice of infidelity I had built a superstructure of my own, more audaciously blasphemous than anything that had ever characterised their iconoclastic efforts to overthrow Christianity"

Sounds like he was sexually involved with the women Theosophists in some way

He was surgically knowledgeable

It's not him is it? - lol

[Howard Brown]

Another reference to the incident Debra Arif brought up before...

Illustrated Police News
December 17,1892
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[Paul Kearney A.K.A. NEMO]

No problem Tom

I don't know if Tumblety scholars are familiar with a term FCV Harcourt always uses when referring to a quack - "Star Croaker"

In the book, a Whitechapel Coster says he would have been a "'croaker" if he had continued working in the quarry, but I don't know if it's used in the same manner by Harcourt

The coster also refers to a policeman as a "cove"

A lot of the warders have rifles and all seem armed with a cutlass

Later, I'll compare the probably fictional shark story in Bolts and Bars with the real life shark story in his autobiography and see if there are similarities