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Ripperologist No. 57: January 2005


 
FEATURES
 
2. The Price of False Freedom: Dr Tumblety and the American Civil War
Joe Chetcuti explains how Tumblety risked all offering forged papers.
6. Díosy and D’Onston: Black Magic and Jack the Ripper?
Christopher T George on those who believed the Black Arts held the key.
9. Catherine Eddowes’s Apron
Paul Begg gives us the facts
12. Off the Wall
Howard Brown experiments with a wall and some tailor’s chalk.
14. The Ripper Murder in Great Eastern Square
Bernard Brown peruses old maps for the location of Bucks Row.
15. The Other Lane
Coral Kelly continues her East End tour down Brick Lane.
 
REGULARS
 
17. In Brief:
† More About the Suspect Benelius
† Was Annie Chapman Drunk When She Left Her Lodgings?
20. Newspaper Trawl
Information unearthed by Chris Scott
23. I Beg to Report
All the news that’s fit to print, including...
† Stephen Ryder nabs ‘Squibby’
† The Maybrick Watch
† A Documentary Film on the Life and Death of Elizabeth Stride
† The Ghost Club - The Paranormal Aspects of the Ripper Case
31. The first Cloak and Dagger Club meeting in photographs
35. Letters and Comments
37. On the Crimebeat
Wilf Gregg on True Crime books you simply should have on your shelf
48. The Adventures of Inspector Abberline Junior
GLENN with more of the mutton-chopped detective
49. The Last Word
Words of wisdom from Christopher-Michael DiGrazia
 
REVIEWS
 
38. Montague Druitt: Portrait of a Contender; Jack the Ripper: 150 Suspects and more!

COVER ILLUSTRATION: Francis Tumblety and The American Civil War ©Adam Wood

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: ‘The suggestion that the four are moderate compared with Mr Arafat, is to suggest that the Boston Strangler was moderate compared with Jack the Ripper.’ Ambassador Yoram Ettinger arguing that legitimizing top leaders of the Palestine Authority - Yasser Arafat’s successors - ‘constitutes a victory of wishful thinking over moral clarity.’

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