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AP Wolf
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Username: Apwolf

Post Number: 2635
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 5:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Supposedly an alias used by Liz Stride when she appeared in court for drunken behaviour before her murder, but I’m not convinced, as this Fitzgerald was alive and kicking well after the event.
See the West-Ham Police Court report of September 27th 1889 where Mrs. Fitzgerald is involved in an almighty fracas, resulting in the death of a man, and direct reference is made to her appearance at the Thames Police Courts in 1888 for drunken and rowdy behaviour a year before.

What is interesting though is that a ‘waterside labourer’ - same profession as Michael Kidney - man-slaughtered his wife in 1886 and his name was Fitzgerald.
She could have been thinking about the future here.
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Caroline Anne Morris
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Caz

Post Number: 2175
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 7:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi AP,

Maybe it was a habit of Stride's to use names of real persons. When Stride was murdered that woman (I've forgotten her name) was convinced it was her sister. So it's not impossible that she took the sister's name too.

Love,

Caz
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AP Wolf
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Well, Caz, it was certainly common to take other names during that period, especially when appearing in court; and there doesn't seem to have been any legal requirement on the part of the courts to actually prove your real identity.
And just about every other case I have examined from the LVP the person in the court is described as 'calling himself - or herself so and so'.
There is still much to be found in this connection.
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N. Beresford
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Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 8:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Caz, AP,

This instance of people using names of people they presumably had some knowledge of ties in with the pawn ticket found on Catherine Eddowes in the name of 'Kelly' living at no. 6 Dorset Street - if they'd looked at no. 26 they they may have found a friend of C. Eddowes. Possible? As for whether all five (or six) knew each other, that's something else.

All the best, N.Beresford.

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