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AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1446
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 5:08 pm: |       |
I have the uncomfortable feeling that I might have given birth to this new theory:
'Things get a little eerie. There is also the odd coincidence of Katerine Eddows death. On the night she was killed she had been arrested for drunk and disorderly at 24 Aldgate High Street. After her release she walked back in that direction, only to find Jack the Ripper in the fog. Over the past few weeks Katherine had had a little more money than usual, and had been boasting that she'd collect the reward for the identity of Jack The Ripper because she knew him. Now he's the coincidence. City of London, Whitechapel District lists among the inhabitants of 24 Aldgate High Street, one Thomas Cutbush.'
Available at 'Kimberleys Fang Forum' on the net.
I just wish the guy was right. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 3339
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 5:49 pm: | |
I thought it was 29 where poor Kate was slumped, AP.
Robert |
Scott Nelson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Snelson
Post Number: 92
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 8:07 pm: | |
Number 24 was known as the "Bull Inn Yard" The premise was a livery stable with enclosures next to no. 25, the Bull Inn, which functioned as a coaching inn up until the late 1870s. An oilman, Matthew Lee, shared no. 24 with a "Solomon Zimmerman, a rag merchant until 1889, when the premise was taken over by a tailor, Solomon Davison. The Inn and stables were abandoned after 1890. |
Donald Souden
Inspector
Username: Supe
Post Number: 293
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 9:20 pm: | |
AP,
How do you figure Eddowes was financially flush? She'd been hop picking (evidently none too rewardingly) for several weeks, returned to London with Kelly and she spent the night in a casual ward. The next day Kelly pawned a pair of boots and they used it for breakfast and to buy some tea and sugar. That doesn't sound like someone who'd come into money.
Don. |
Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 3341
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 6:11 am: | |
Scott, thanks for that information.
Robert |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 1448
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 31, 2004 - 1:19 pm: | |
Yes, thanks Scott also.
Robert, it was 29 but I thought just maybe this guy had found Thomas Cutbush at 24 and then shifted the numbers to suit his theory.
If he did find Tom Tom at 24 then I want to know about it.
Don... sorry, perhaps how I've written it in the book is confusing. Obviously I meant that after her streak of bad luck for the previous two days - which you detail - she suddenly found enough loot to get howling drunk, remember she couldn't stand up and had to be supported by the arresting officer. Of course she may have turned a 'trick' during the course of the afternoon and that would explain her sudden coming into money, or of course the statement she made about knowing the identity of Jack may well have been true and she had begun to squeeze the suspectfor cash. Remember there was a reward, which if she did know the identity she could have claimed, but if this is the scenario then she obviously thought the reward would be greater by blackmailing the suspect rather than turning him in. Whatever, it is a great mystery, with particular regard to her efforts to reach Aldgate High Street.
As you probably know I have always felt that Eddowes had a destination that night, she just didn't expect it to become a permanent one. |
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