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Chris Scott
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Post Number: 26
Registered: 4-2003
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I found this passage in a Canadian newpaper dated 10 October 1888. I thought it might be of interest on two counts:
1) The herb doctor description elsewhere applied to Tumblety
2) The black magic elements are reminiscent of some aspects of the D'Onston theory
CS

"An American who used to live in New York keeps a herb shop now in the Whitechapel district. A detective called at his place this week and asked if he had sold any unusual compound of herbs to a customer since August. Similar inquiries were made at other shops in the neighborhood. The basis of this investigation has a startling Shakespearean flavor. An eminent engineer in London suggested to the police the theory that the murderer was a medical maniac trying to find the elixir of life, and was looking for the essential ingredients in the parts taken from the murdered bodies; that, like the witches in "Macbeth", he spent his time over a bubbling cauldron of the hellbroth made from the gory ingredients for the charm."
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lance sawyer
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Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 4:41 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

watched very interesting documentry, herb dr. married and found out his wife was a prostitute (still working)left his wife and true hatred of woman grew, confided in friend at dinner party about pickled collection of woman`s uterius`s, stayed at charing cross hotel in london but staff found it weird that he stayed in b&b in Whitechapel slum area from time to time. landlady saw a blood stained garment on him on same night of last murder but he was gone that night, he left leather case in posh hotel but as he left no forwarding address, it went into lost property, police searched it and found various items including american bank books. a senior policeman went over to Rochester, New York where he was from but never found him.He was all over the papers in America but not a whisper in England.When he died about 1908, he had on his belongings all the normal items for a wealthy man, fine clothing, diamond rings and expensive jewellry but also they found 2 cheap imitation gold rings, exactly the same as the two rings that were wrenched of the last victim, trophy ? Has anyone else heard information along these lines ?

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