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jezroberts
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| | Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 10:13 am: | 
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I haven't read about JtR in a while now but have just picked up a copy of 'Uncle Jack' which i shall read with as much open mindedness as all the other books i have read on the subject. The one thing i really want to know is whether the posibility of a vicar or a minister of the church being involved in the murders had been researched? From memory, St. Mary's church kept coming up in various writings.... |
Christopher T George
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 1472
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 9:23 am: |
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Hi jez
To answer your question, yes, clergymen have been named as suspects. For example, one is Reverend Samuel Augustus Barnett, Rector of St. Jude's, Whitechapel, 1873-1894. Another perhaps more implausible suspect, named by Boston child psychologist Richard Wallace, is the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).
There is a line of thought that "Jack" may have had something about him that set the victims at ease, even in the middle of the Ripper's reign of terror. If the murderer was a man of the cloth, a policeman, or a social worker, the murderer's line of work could have been that "something."
All the best
Chris George
Christopher T. George
North American Editor
Ripperologist
http://www.ripperologist.info
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