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Jennifer D. Pegg
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Username: Jdpegg

Post Number: 12
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 1:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

hi,
i have just read paul feldmans book. which i mention only to state the source.
in it he says pc spicers ripper was a brixton doctor, he claims it was in fact maybrick.
are there any docs it could have been
without wishing to get into a diary debate
truly
jennifer pegg
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Robert Clack
Sergeant
Username: Rclack

Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 4:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Jennifer

The Doctor was probably Doctor Frederick Richard Chapman (1851-1888).

I got this information from the Jack the Ripper A-Z

Rob
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Jennifer D. Pegg
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Username: Jdpegg

Post Number: 13
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 10:18 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

thank you robert
i will attempt to find out more
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Chris Scott
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Username: Chris

Post Number: 130
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 11:10 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I didn't really know where else to place this post!!
I have found this article in an Australian newspaper (The Port Phillip Herald) dated 2 October 1889.
the scan on this came out so badly that it was a very difficult one to decipher and there are at least a couple of words I'm not sure about. Any alternative readings gladly received!
I'm posting both my transcription and the original in the form I got it

Port Phillip Herald 2 October 1889

THE HORRIBLE MURDERS
WHITECHAPEL
A GREAT SENSATION
A CLUE TO THE MURDERER DISCOVERED
SAID TO BE A LONDON MEDICAL MAN
HIS ARREST HOURLY EXPECTED

By Cable from Our Special Correspondent

London, 1st October 1.45 p.m.

A tremendous sensation has been created in London by the publication of a statement to the effect that the police have at last succeeded in obtaining a definite clue to the identity of the miscreant who perpetrated the series of horrible murders in Whitechapel and its vicinity.
The statement is to the effect that the Scotland Yard officers are in possession of conclusive evidence that the murderer is no other than a medical man resident in London, and that he committed the murders for the purpose of obtaining morbid specimens.
The arrest of the person referred to is hourly expected, but pending his apprehension the authorities maintain extreme vigilance (?) but a hint accidentally dropped led to the discovery of what is going on, and the publication of the information inthe papers this afternoon.
As stated, the affair has caused widespraed and intense excitement, and there is great (?) curiosity to know the name of the doctor suspected.


doc1889
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Jennifer D. Pegg
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Username: Jdpegg

Post Number: 27
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 1:58 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

dear chris,
do you think this article refers to dr t whom you have been researching?
jennifer
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Chris Scott
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Username: Chris

Post Number: 136
Registered: 4-2003
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 4:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

That did cross my mind but as Tumblety left London late in 1888 I think that is unlikely.
But I would still like to know what this "conclusive evidence" is.
Of the well known accounts, this story reminds me most of the Dr Howard story and the Lees account but who can tell which, if either, it refers to?
regards
chris
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Jennifer D. Pegg
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Post Number: 28
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Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 10:57 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

it is a funny piece. i would be interested to know if there was ever anything else written
jennifer
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Jennifer D. Pegg
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Username: Jdpegg

Post Number: 29
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Saturday, May 10, 2003 - 11:01 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

furthermore if this is a reference to a london doctor b4 the chicago article, i wonder if this is what that particular aspect of the article is based on.
i can't figure out the chicago article. this appears to fit with it. is it an archieve online?
jp

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