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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2220
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 4:40 am: | 
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The Fitchburg Sentinel of 29 April 1891 carried this brief one liner:
Anyone have any idea what this refers to? |
Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1481
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 4:55 am: |
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Chris
I was going to say that it was interesting that this is dated only a couple of months after the report in the Bristol Times and Mirror about the son of a surgeon who committed suicide soon after the murders.
But this corresponding piece from the Manitoba Daily Free Press, also dated 29 April 1891, suggests that the suicide was recent:
London, April 28.
A report is current in this city that the unknown man who some three weeks ago suicided at Wimbledon, has been identified as "Jack the Ripper." Not much credence is, however, given to the story in well-informed circles.
http://casebook.org/press_reports/manitoba_daily_free_press/910429.html
Chris Phillips
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 5109
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:43 am: |
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I can't help wondering whether it's all garbled - for three weeks read three years and for Wimbledon read Wimbourne (even though that was only the burial place!)
Robert |
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