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Chris Phillips
Detective Sergeant
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 60
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 5:10 am: |       |
This was quoted by Macnaghten at the start of the Ripper chapter in "Days of My Years". He comments on it, "The above queer verse was one of the first documents which I perused at Scotland Yard, for at that time the police post-bag bulged large with hundreds of anonymous communications on the subject of the East End tragedies."
As he was able to quote it, perhaps he took it away as a souvenir when he retired?
A check on the old message boards turns up a couple of messages from Chris George, mentioning that the original document is not known to have survived.
The odd thing is that I have a fairly clear memory of having seen a photo of this poem, handwritten, in a Madame Tussauds brochure (probably one produced in the 1970s). Perhaps my memory is playing tricks, but I don't think so. As I remember, for some time I thought the killer was claiming not to be a Kid - not knowing what a "Yid" was at the time.
I suppose a possible explanation is that Madame Tussaud's simply produced a handwritten version of this for display purposes. Does anyone know more?
Chris Phillips
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Christopher T George
Detective Sergeant
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 129
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 9:32 am: | |
Hi, Chris:
I am pretty sure that the handwritten image of the "I'm not a butcher, I'm not a Yid ..." rhyme that you remember from the Madame Tussaud's brochure that you believe was produced in the 1970s was not a genuine document from 1888. I believe it would have been "tricked up" for the public, just like the recreation of "Jack the Ripper's London" in the London Dungeon or re-creations of the graffito on the wall in a movie on the crimes, none of which represent how it really was in 1888.
All the best
Chris George |
Peter
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, October 03, 2003 - 11:26 pm: | |
i know what yid means. i also know alot about what 'The letter From Hell means". its not code, just another language. it has signifigance with Mitre Square. Email me if you would like to know more. |
Carly Hilts
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Saturday, June 26, 2004 - 2:55 pm: | |
A 'yid' is slang for a Jew (offensive now, but I think it was commonplace then). I suppose it's refering to the furore over the graffiti that read 'the juwes are not men who will be blamed for nothing', which was found at one of the crime scenes. |
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