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Ripperologist No. 51: January 2004


REGULARS
 
1. Assessing the Evidence: Revisionism versus Logic?
Editorial by Christopher T George
17. GLENN
The Adventures of Inspector Abberline Jr
21. I Beg To Report
All the news that fits to print. And sometimes not...
26. I Beg To Report special
Ripper Flicks become Movie Mania in recent Filming Flurry ­ a diary of events recorded by Andy Aliffe
36. On the Crimebeat
Wilf Gregg on True Crime books you may have found In your Christmas stocking
37. The Last Word
Words of wisdom from the Editor of Ripper Notes, Christopher-Michael DiGrazia
 
FEATURES
 
4. Deeming and the Privy Council: A Comedy of Terrors
Jeffrey Bloomfield on the questions we'll never have answered
12. 1888 and All That
Bill Beadle reports on the 'bits and pieces' year
13. Fiddymont and Colicott
Chris Scott trawls the census returns
14. London Correspondence
Alan Sharp on how the Irish Times reported on the Ripper
18. The shortest Jack the Ripper story
A Ripper story in under 55 words? Your entries revealed!
19. Newspaper Trawl
Information unearthed by Chris Scott
28. Obituaries: Melvin Harris, Adrian Phypers, David Hemmings
35. Competition: Win a limited edition new Ripper artwork print
 
REVIEWS
 
31. Jack the Ripper: The American Connection; Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling; The Victorian House; Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman and more!

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "To applaud the US armyıs capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler." Indian writer Arundhati Roy, speaking to 100 people at a leftist anti-globalisation convention in Bombay. (The Times of India, 18 January 2004).

We have endeavoured to credit photo copyright to known sources and apologise to any copyright holders we have overlooked.

We would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance given by the following people in the production of this issue of Ripperologist: Jason Beam, Mr D Phypers. Thank you!

Cover illustration İAdam Wood