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Gloster, Dr. James Cockburn
Casebook Message Boards: Ripper Suspects: Specific Suspects:
Later Suspects [ 1910 - Present ]:
Gloster, Dr. James Cockburn
Author: Scott Nelson
Saturday, 06 May 2000 - 07:52 pm |        | | Martin Roberts makes an intriging case for Gloster as JtR in a couple of recently published articles. Gloster was a 34-year-old gynaecologist who once attended the London Hospital. The problem is that the key piece of his evidence is a letter from one P.S.R. Lunigi to Forbes Winslow predicting the date of the last murder (Kelly). Roberts, through rather precarious reasoning, links Gloster to Lunigi by geography and profession. Can the provenance of this letter to Winslow, a known fanatic to police, be trusted? Roberts also accepts the Lusk letter as genuine, since Gloster was Irish and had connections to the West End. Can anyone who had read his latest article ("Probable Cause" Ripperana no. 32)describing a statistical analysis of the population, ethnic background including Italian connections, profession, criminal records, etc. comment on his choice of a suspect? I for one found it very difficult to follow his statistical reasoning. Finally, would a man on bail for accusation of murder in June 1888 have gone on killing under scrutiny of the police? |
Author: Scott Nelson
Monday, 08 May 2000 - 12:54 am | | | A follow-up to this intriguing affair: Gloster was bailed in June 1888, prior to the murders of Nicols and Chapman. He was acquited on charges of the murder of Eliza Jane Schumacher on September 25, 1888. This was after the murders of Nicols and Chapman, and 5 days before the JtR double event murder. (my thanks to Alex Chisholm for the background info on Gloster). |
Author: Martin Fido
Thursday, 17 May 2001 - 09:29 am | | A query Dr Roberts recently sent to me indicates that his research will at least be very thorough. Until reading this board I assumed that he was pursuing personal genealogical research.
Martin Fido |
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