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Lusk Letter and Dehumanization
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Lusk Letter and Dehumanization
Author: Diana
Tuesday, 23 July 2002 - 10:51 am |        | | I was reading the link that someone (I think it was Divia) posted about SK's. Ted Bundy said that once a prospective victim began to take on personality, he began to know her it killed his desire to murder her. I was reminded of how essential it really is to dehumanize anyone you are going to kill, to make them a flat, unreal paper doll. I was reminded of the Lusk letter. The victim is referred to as "one woman". Not Eddowes, not "the one in Mitre Square" just "one woman". He saw that she was a woman, period. To me this rings chillingly true. |
Author: Divia deBrevier
Tuesday, 23 July 2002 - 01:02 pm | | Hi Diana:
No, it wasn't my post... but I agree.
Divia |
Author: Leanne Perry
Tuesday, 11 February 2003 - 04:25 am | | G'day,
On page 246 of 'The Ultimate JtR companion', there's a 'Daily Telegraph Monday 8th October 1888' article that tells of a suspicious incident that befell Mr. George Lusk on Thursday, (4th Oct). A stranger went to his home and finding him not home tracked him down at an adjacent tavern. Having a great interest in the movements of the volunteer police, (he didn't actually say he wanted to join them), he sought a private interview. He wanted to go to Lusk's address but the interview was held at the bar.
Lusk dropped a pencil, bent to pick it up and noticed the stranger 'made a swift though silent movement....towards his side pocket'. Realizing he'd been observed, the man then asked to be directed to the nearest coffee house. Lusk followed him but he was too quick, so Lusk checked the coffee house to find the man was never there.
A description of this stranger follows: 'between 30 and 40 years of age, 5ft 9ins, florid complexion, bushy brown beard and moustache.
Putting this book down and turning to page 65 of 'Letters From Hell', I read that on Monday the 15th of October, a man asked Emily Marsh for the address of George Lusk, referring to a reward bill in the shop window.
He didn't want the address of the Treasurer of the Committee, he wanted Lusk's. Emily read the address out from a newspaper, which left out the house number. The stranger wrote it down.
Description: 'Some 40 years old, 6ft, slim, soft felt hat DRAWN DOWN OVER EYES, dark beard and moustache,(but he had his hat drawn down over his eyes), Irish accent.
George Lusk received half a kidney the next night at 8pm. The house number wasn't on the envelope and the accompanying letter had an Irish 'flavour'!
I wonder were the two men described above, one and the same man? He could have went to Lusk's home on the 8th, forgot to write down the address and decided to return with his notebook and pen. Then when he was on his way back, saw the reward sign in Emily's shop window and thought he'd save himself the trouble.
The 2nd man who Israel Schwartz saw on the morning Stride was killed, was: 35, 5ft 11ins, Light brown hair. The police never bothered to locate this 2nd man, even to verify what Schwartz saw. What a shame!
Does anyone else have anything to say about this?
Leanne! |
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