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Kelly Robinson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 121
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:27 pm: | 
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I'm curious about this guy. Does anyone have additional information aside from the newspaper articles here? Also, the paper says he was a baker, but I read somewhere else that he was a hairdresser.
Any info appreciated.
-K
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner
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Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 223
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 1:28 am: |
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Hi Kelly,
Ludwig alias Wetzel came to England from Hamburg in 1887 and was employed as a hairdresser/barbers assistant for Mr. C. A. Partridge of the Minories. He was in custody during the murders of Stride and Eddowes.
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Kelly Robinson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 122
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 10:18 am: |
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Thanks Nina. I don't know where I read "baker", but One of the East London Advertiser articles here says he was a butcher. What is the source for the hairdresser info?
-K
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner
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Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 225
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
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Kelly,
I’m sure it wasn’t the first error that the press made.
Sources for hairdresser info
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper Sugden
pages 148-152
Jack the Ripper First American Serial Killer Evans & Gainey
pages 61-63
The Daily Telegraph Sept. 19, 1888
http://http://casebook.org/press_reports/daily_telegraph/dt880919.html
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Nina Thomas
Inspector
Username: Nina
Post Number: 226
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:32 am: |
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Oops, let me try that link again.
http://casebook.org/press_reports/daily_telegraph/dt880919.html
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Kelly Robinson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Kelly
Post Number: 123
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |
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Thanks again Nina. I've got both the books at home.
"The past isn't over. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner
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