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Chris Scott
Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 456
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 12:36 pm: | 
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I have found an extract which claims that the London police received a letter signed Jack the Ripper, specifically disclaiming the Hobbs murder. Thought this might be of interest. It is froma Mexican paper, El Universal, of 14 November 1890 and the section in question reads:
It has been stated that the chief of London police has received a letter signed Jack the Ripper and with the same writing as the former ones, attributed to the famous killer, in which he says that the death of Mrs. Hobbs was a commonplace crime which he had not committed and he was amused by the insistence with which it was attributed to him. The letter concludes by announcing that before continuing his "anatomical studies on living women" in Whitechapel, he will kill two in Piccadilly.
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Jeffrey Bloomfied
Detective Sergeant
Username: Mayerling
Post Number: 126
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 07, 2003 - 6:35 pm: |
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Hi Chris,
Mrs. Pearcey's victim was Mrs. Phoebe Hogg, not Hobbs. The Mexican report must have had an error in it.
Best wishes,
Jeff |
Chris Scott
Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 459
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2003 - 8:39 am: |
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Hi Jeff
When the Spanish language reports come to reporting English names there are often errors and with street names as well. Hanbury street is often spelt Hambury, Dorset as Dorsett etc. I have seen Eddowes as Eidowes, Leidowes etc, Tabram as Tambram etc. It makes translating interesting to say the least!
Regards
Chris
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Ira Bloomfield
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 8:31 pm: |
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Hi Chris and all,
This week I purchased Stewart Evans' biography of the public executioner James Berry (EXECUTIONER: THE CHRONICLES OF JAMES BERRY, VICTORIAN HANGMAN). Berry hanged Mrs. Pearcey, and in the section on her crime and execution it is mentioned (page 262) that it was William Stewart in his JACK THE RIPPER: A NEW THEORY (London, Quality Press, 1939) that suggested she was the Ripper.
Regards,
Jeff |
Stanley D. Reid
Detective Sergeant
Username: Sreid
Post Number: 76
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 29, 2005 - 10:10 am: |
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Hi all
The way I read the Pearcey case, she was never seriously considered a Ripper suspect contemporaneously. That story got started because, when Hogg's remains were found, some people thought she might be a victim of JTR but, when the true perpetrator was discovered, that idea went out the window.
Regards,
Stan |
Catherine Ann
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 11:50 am: |
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I think Jill the Ripper theory to be a very good one. She must've been very strong though, but that isn't altogether impossible for a woman. There must've been many backstreet abortionists and perhaps she was just friendly with the women she worked with on previous occasions. Sounds as likely as all the other suspects. |
Phil Hill
Chief Inspector
Username: Phil
Post Number: 781
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 1:44 am: |
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Sounds as likely as all the other suspects.
Once again Catherine, your standards of proof and your discernment leave one lost for words.
Phil |
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