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Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1089
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 5:56 pm: | 
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Anderson wrote:
The sight of a room thus stained will not easily fade from my memory. It was the scene of the last and most fiendish of the crimes known as the "Whitechapel murders" in London. Blood was on the furniture, blood was on the floor, blood was on the walls, blood was everywhere. Did this speak to me of life? Yes, but of life gone, of life destroyed, and, therefore, of that which is the very antithesis of life. Every blood-stain in that horrid room spoke of death.
But looking at Sugden's account, I can't see any evidence that Anderson actually visited the room. Does anyone know whether or not he did?
Chris Phillips
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4576
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 20, 2005 - 6:37 pm: |
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Hi Chris
According to the Daily Telegraph 10th Nov, "Mr. Anderson, the recently-appointed Assistant-Commissioner, had driven up in a cab at ten minutes to two o'clock, and he remained for some time."
Robert |
Chris Phillips
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Cgp100
Post Number: 1090
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 3:58 am: |
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Robert
Thank you.
The quotation came from one of Anderson's theological works, The Gospel and its Ministry, whose text is available on Alan Newble's site:
http://www.newble.co.uk/anderson/gospel/chap16.html
For obsessive Ripperologists, there are 17 of Anderson's theological works on this site. The above is the only part I could find relating to the Whitechapel Murders, but maybe someone can find more.
I did think this observation had a familiar ring:
Indeed, if error and nonsense were solid, enough has been said and written upon the sixteenth chapter of Luke to sink the biggest ship that ever put to sea!
Chris Phillips
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert
Post Number: 4578
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 6:09 am: |
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Chris, thanks for that link. It's definitely worth combing the theological works of Anderson for Ripper references.
He certainly seems to have had a thing about sinking ships!
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Andrew Spallek
Chief Inspector
Username: Aspallek
Post Number: 870
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 1:42 pm: |
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That's a very interesting passage. On this point, anyway, Anderson's theology seems at a glance to be quite orthodox.
I should feel a kinship to Anderson since I share with him a theological training but I have always regarded him with contempt. He has seemed to me as one who "can't be bothered" with the murders. He's off in Switzerland and then in France while they are being committed and has to be ordered to return. When he does return he boasts that the case will be solved immediately now that's he's here.
Actually, the police seemed to have the attitude that the murders were not that big a deal. The only reason they were a big deal to them was due to the pressure caused by the press. Otherwise they seemed to take the logical approach that these were only a "few" killings and the victims were of a class that really didn't matter anyway.
Andy S.
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