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Andrew Gable
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 3:05 pm: |       |
The suspects page isn't accepting any new topics, so I'll stick this here. ;)
Anybody else agree this guy may deserve more looking into than he was given? In the description of the Langan arrest in Evans' and Skinner's Ultimate Jack The Ripper Companion, it's stated that one of the address he gave for one of his previous trips to England was "staying with Mrs. Davis in Merthyr [Tydfil, I assume]". Interesting, given that Mary Jane Davies was there in 1881, no?
Of course, it's equally interesting that the Kelly family in Yorkshire had a small child named James Langan living with them.
Just to refresh anyone's memory, Langan was the guy arrested for vagrancy in France, Boulogne I believe, and later questioned by Scotland Yard after the French police thought he resembled some of the descriptions of Jack. |
Paul Williams
Sergeant
Username: Wehrwulf
Post Number: 37
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2004 - 3:43 pm: | |
Some more tracing on John Langan would be useful. James Langan was born in Halifax in September 1877 and the name is probably no more than coincidence. |
Andrew Gable
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, September 27, 2004 - 1:05 am: | |
On a few genealogy sites, I've found reference to a John Langan of Scranton PA, born 1860 in either Pennsylvania or Ireland. His wife was named Bridget Moran.
This may not be him though, of course. Ideally, I'd like to get to France sometime and try to track down the arrest records (assuming any would still exist).
Other searches of the web also indicate that the Hotel Brunswick (or at least a place with that name), the possible MJK's place of employment, is a still operational pub in Merthyr Tydfil. |
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