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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana

Post Number: 760
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

It has often been questioned as to who was at the Seaside Home that could have identified JTR. We assume a patient. But could this witness have been employed in some capacity at the seaside home?
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Andrew Spallek
Chief Inspector
Username: Aspallek

Post Number: 977
Registered: 5-2003
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 12:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Yes, the witness could have been an employee at the Seaside Home or the Seaside Home could merely have been used as an out-of-the-way identification site for someone with no connection to the home or the police.

Andy S.
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Scott Nelson
Detective Sergeant
Username: Snelson

Post Number: 144
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 7:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Diana,

You might want to check your issue of Ripperana no. 10 from October 1994, p. 12-16. Trevor Spinage wrote about the Jewish Convalescent Home (in the 1891 Directories onwards) in West Brighton, 35 Montgomery Street and Claredon Villas. This building (no longer standing) was less than 200 yards from the Police Seaside Home. Mr. Spinage suggests the possibility that the witness was staying there. Someone attending the upcoming Brighton Conference might want to check around to see if the records of the Jewish Convalescent Home still exist.
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John Ruffels
Inspector
Username: Johnr

Post Number: 447
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 9:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello Scott,
On a Police Seaside Home thread recently, some enterprising researcher turned up a letter (to a Jewish newspaper?) suggesting the need for a Jewish Seaside Home and also nominating Brighton as an ideal location with a vibrant Jewish population.
It even mentioned a woman who had made the idea her pet project.
Sorry for forgetting the Casebook sleuths name.
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Robert Charles Linford
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Robert

Post Number: 4874
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 6:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Here is a list of Convalescent Homes from an item of Dec 17th 1919. These Homes were awarded grants from the King Edward's Fund. I'm not sure how many of them were around in the early 1890s.






Robert

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