Trivia For Our Inner Dummy

[Howard Brown]

Who was James Kelly's lawyer ( his trial for murder ) ?

[Howard Brown]

Answer:
Montagu Williams...

[Howard Brown]

Question.....

Has anyone ever been sued and subsequently commanded to pay money to the 'injured' party.....for calling said party, Jack The Ripper ?

[Robert Linford]

Yes, I think so.

[Howard Brown]

Bob:

Can we be any more vague, bubeleh ?

Yes or no, man. None of that wishy washy maybe, son !

[Robert Linford]

How, I wanted to just put 'yes' but your site said the message was too short.

[Howard Brown]

Okay then...

Any idea when this occurred ?

[Jerry Dunlop]

Question.....

Has anyone ever been sued and subsequently commanded to pay money to the 'injured' party.....for calling said party, Jack The Ripper ?

Does Sadler count? I can't recall if the paper called him JTR or not. Same with Pizer. But they called him Leather Apron.

[Robert Linford]

Ah, How, you never asked who or when. You only asked whether. And the answer is obviously yes, because you couldn't possibly know enough to be able to say never.

[Jerry Dunlop]

Hugh Drainer. Fined 1s plus court expenses. August 1889.

See, I do read your posts How!

[Howard Brown]

Correct Jerry !

[Howard Brown]

August 15, 2015

Cable Street has been mentioned quite a lot in the month of August.....primarily for the establishment of a Jack The Ripper Museum and the battle fought there back in 1936 between left and right wingers....

However....Cable Street also has a link to a couple of murders committed some 7 decades before the Whitechapel Murders. One of its local businesses contained a relic from those murders.
What was the name of those murders....the relic...and the name of the business ?

[Sam Flynn]

This must be the Ratcliff Highway murders, for which John Williams was executed, and whose corpse was paraded through town on a horse and cart. He was eventually buried under a crossroads outside a Cable St pub (the Peartree?), with a stake driven through his heart. Did the pub put the stake on display, or something?

[Howard Brown]

Gareth:

The pub did have a relic.....what was the pub's name and what was the relic ?
Good going so far, bubs.

[Sam Flynn]

The pub did have a relic.....what was the pub's name and what was the relic ?

I take it that the relic wasn't the stake, and the pub wasn't the "Peartree" then? Hmmm... It's been a while since I read the book, so I guess I'll have to dig it out