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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2250
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 3:13 am: | 
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This cryptic reference appears in the Mitchell Daily Republican of 18 December 1889:
"A man arrested in Montreal as the driver of the hack in which the fatal Mulchay-Husson marriage took place, claims to be Jack the Ripper."
Does anyone have any idea what the "fatal Mulchay-Husson marriage refers to? I can find no reference to it all.
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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 870
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 12:43 pm: |
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I tried Google and got nowhere. But I noticed they offered me an alternate spelling for Mulchay, Mulcahey which is a more common name. Could the truth be hiding behind a typo? |
Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2254
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 4:34 pm: |
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Diana
Many thanks for that suggestion - it enabled me to trace the following story:
Trenton Times
1 March 1889
Married On His Death Bed
Montreal, March 1
It is stated that the object of the deathbed marriage of Mary Mulcahy to Ralph Husson, of London, which took place on Tuesday last and which was followed ten minutes afterward by the death of Husson, was to leave his property, of which he is said to have considerable, to his betrothed. Husson contracted pneumonia on his way across the ocean to be married.
Why the driver to this odd marriage should implicate himself is still not clear
Chris |
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