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Mallet?
Casebook Message Boards: Ripper Victims: General Discussion:
Mallet?
Author: Brenna Idle
Friday, 11 January 2002 - 04:29 am |        | Hey everyone,
I read somewhere about the supposed murder and mutilation of a woman called Mallet on December 28, 1887 (I think). Does anyone know anything more about this? Thanks! |
Author: Michael Conlon
Friday, 11 January 2002 - 02:45 pm | | Hi Brenna,
I don't know about the "December 28" date, but the following is from "The World" for April 24,1891, following the arrest of Ripper suspect, Arbie La Bruckman. Recounting the Whitechapel murders, it states: "Three days before Christmas,1888, Maud Millet was found strangled and mutilated in Clarke's Yard, High Street, Poplar." Clearly, this is a reference to Rose Mylett, an alleged Ripper victim. Perhaps your Mallet refers to this case, although the date is off. Hope this is some help.
Mike |
Author: Jack Traisson
Friday, 11 January 2002 - 08:13 pm | | Hi Brenna, and Mike,
Rose Mylett was found dead in Clarke's Yard on December 20, 1888. The police treated as a suspicious death. There seemed to be a dispute as to how she died. Dr. Brownfield, who conducted the postmortem, concluded that she had been strangled. Robert Anderson disagreed with the report and called in Dr. Bond for his opinion. Bond concluded that she choked to death while drunk and the marks on her neck came from her stiff velvet collar. At the inquest, Coroner Baxter dismissed Bond's report on the grounds he had seen the body much later than Brownfield and a verdict of "murder by some person or persons unknown" was brought in.
On Boxing night, 1887, a dead woman was supposedly found behind Commercial Road in an article in the Reynolds News by Terence Robertson, October 29, 1950. Thus the myth of "Fairy Fay" was born. No such murder ever occurred. It seems the article was a combination of the Emma Smith facts mixed together with the arrest of a prostitute "Tottie Fay". All of this put together it seems from the files of the Reynolds News by Robertson. Inspector Reid supposedly investigated the murder of Fairy Fay but a search of police records and newspaper reports just doesn't substantiate it.
Cheers,
John |
Author: Michael Conlon
Friday, 11 January 2002 - 08:24 pm | | Hi John,
Many thanks for that information. I had forgotten all about the "Fairy Fay" story, and I'm sure you are right in supposing that Brenna's allusion must be to this spurious incident. Thanks.
Mike |
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