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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2210
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 5:14 am: | 
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I came across this article today. It is from a US paper, the Oakland Tribune, and is dated 24 December 1910. It claims that "unwritten police annals" showed the Ripper to be a physician who had treated King Edward (i.e. Edward VII)
It is not clear whether the writer meant a physician who treated Edward when he was King or earlier as Prince of Wales. If the latter meaning is intended, then this could conceivably refer to Gull.
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John Savage
Chief Inspector
Username: Johnsavage
Post Number: 505
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:49 pm: |
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Hi Chris,
A very interesting find, many thanks for posting.
It certainly looks as though it could refer to Sir William Gull, and I think this might be the earliest reference we have to this story.
I wonder were the reporter at the Oakland Tribune found his information?
Rgds
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Interesting
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, October 03, 2005 - 2:31 am: |
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This article seems to refer, or owe its origin, to the Dr. Howard story in The Sunday Times-Herald, Chicago, of 1895. |
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