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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 1398
Registered: 4-2003
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This account is from The Times:
29 May 1894
On the arrival of the steamship Paraguay from Buenos Ayres at Dunkirk today, a passenger named Jean Tremblier was arrested on a charge of murdering a woman at Buenos Ayres in a manner resembling that of Jack the Ripper. The body was not, as the authorities expected it would be, found in his boxes, which, however, contained a quantity of Aregentine copper money that it is supposed he intended to pass in France. He expressed surprise at the charge, stating that he had heard of the murder before sailing.
I find this account baffling on two main counts:
1) It seems inconceivable that anyone who was presumably fleeing from Argentina after murdering a woman would take the body of his victim with him in his luggage!
2) If the police thought he would have the body, they obviously did not have it so how did they know the murder had been committed "in a manner resembling that of Jack the Ripper?"
Anyone know anything of this case or of Jean Tremblier?
Chris |
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