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"Lord Orsam" has made a counter-argument on his website [see link] about our contention that this source is a "smoking gun" as far as showing that the foundations of so-called "Ripperology" is based on a flaw, on a misconception about Macnaghten's reliability - or lack... -
Rightly or wrongly, we believe the two sources below support our thesis of certain Victorians being convinced that the late Montague Druitt was the killer, and was included in the American edition and the UK paperback of “The Escape of…”:
“The Evening Star” [New Zealand] Jan 1st...Leave a comment:
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David has alerted me that there is a fuller treatment of why he totally disagrees with my interpretation at this link on his site:
https://www.orsam.co.uk/suspectwhoneverwas.htm
To Chris
No, not unfair, I just think David is mistaken in his interpretation; its...Leave a comment:
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We, the authors of "The Escape of Jack the Ripper" (published once in the UK, and twice in the USA) thank those who have communicated with us to express how much they have enjoyed the book - without necessarily agreeing with it. On this forum, we have been called liars and on the other pretty...Leave a comment:
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Great Conference!
I just want to say on behalf of my partner and researcher, Christine, that we had an absolutely terrific time at the Conference organised by Ricky Cobb.
A big thank-you to Ricky, Becky and Colin Cobb who looked after us all with efficiency and affability,...Leave a comment:
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Druitt died at the wrong time
Thanks R.J.
To be spoken of in the same line as Fido is a big, big compliment! It's not accurate - but I'll take what I can get.
Adam had asked, essentially, if Montague Druitt had not died just after Kelly would he have ever...Leave a comment:
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No worries, Adam, and all the best to you.
I disagree with every single thing you wrote in that last post, some of it kind of crazy, but by all means have the last word since we are both heading for the exit.
I'm in Tasmania for a [non-Ripper] conference in June. We'll...Leave a comment:
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The problem is, Adam, that you are so wound up in your own theory, of Druitt's innocence, that you have missed the boat on this debate completely.
I was addressing Tammy because that new poster is following this debate closely - unlike your good self - and so another's posting, and my...Leave a comment:
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Another way of looking at it is that the Macnaghten Report(s) is the first time that M. J. Druitt is named as a Jack the Ripper suspect (official version) or likely Jack the Ripper solution (Draft or Rewrite version). That's true for sure.
But it is not the first time that Druitt enters...Leave a comment:
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To Tammy
That is true: the line is meant to be read as I heard this from somebody who knew the family - or read it in a file.
Then you have to ask: what is the purpose of the source, who is it written for, what potential danger or troubles does it pose to the person who...Leave a comment:
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Spot on, Paul!
And you make an astute observation that people can believe all sorts of things - passionately, sincerely and literally - and still be quite mistaken.
I would just add that I don't think Macnaghten would have wanted to believe, posthumously, in Druitt's guilt....Leave a comment:
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Druitt and "The Lodger"
Here is something I completely missed when I wrote my first book on "Jack The Ripper".
In that book I had mentioned that Marie Belloc Lowndes' best-selling novel "The Lodger - A Story of the London Fog" (1913) had been inspired by not only The Ripper case, but specifically... -
Thanks Paul and Tammy and Cris!
All the best to the three of you.
Aside to Tammy: Macnaghten wrote that the [un-named] Druitt definitely wrote the graffiti, and I think that is probably true.
To Adam - relax, mate, they are not talking about you.
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He meant D not T
Don't ask me, Howard, to be spat on and pretend to like it. But in deference to you and your site I will do as you ask and let the latest salvo from that quarter go unanswered.
I will respond to your question Howard even though, apologies in advance, I...Leave a comment:
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All Hail The Dear Leader
To Merv
Do you comprehend what a mean-spirited poster you are? With not a single counter-point offered, just telling people to Bugger Off!
Why do you read my stuff, if you don't like it - that's the really creepy part?
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