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Chris Scott
Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 471
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 2:16 pm: | 
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I have seen in some sources much made of the fact that Eddowes also used the name Kelly, especially in theories that argue that MJ Kelly was the intended victim. I have found the extract below from an article I am transcribing (dated 19 July 1889) which states that McKenzie also used the name Kelly. Does anyone have any forther information on this?
Chris
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Caroline Anne Morris
Inspector
Username: Caz
Post Number: 332
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 11:28 am: |
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Hi Chris,
I imagine the name 'Kelly' may have been in common use by women who needed an alias. At least Alice couldn't have been the superstitious kind if she was using it after what happened to Mary Jane.
(The name Myra has, to no one's surprise, all but disappeared since the 1960s.)
Love,
Caz |
Chris Scott
Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 477
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 7:43 am: |
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Hi Caz
Interesting thought - if your theory that Kelly was a common alias is right, it might suggest that it was not Mary Jane's real surname either which could explain her absence from available sources.
Perahps one of the other surnames atrributed to her - Davies, davis, Fisher, Lawrence - is nearer the truth
Regards
Chris |
Caroline Anne Morris
Inspector
Username: Caz
Post Number: 344
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 12, 2003 - 2:33 pm: |
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Hi Chris,
It just struck me that after MJK, not many women would have gone out of their way to call themselves Kelly unless it was their real name, and those who had previously used it could be forgiven for dropping it like a stone - unless it was in such common usage as to be almost meaningless, like Smith.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if MJK invented her name. Given all the rumours about her running hither and thither to avoid ghosts from her past, it would seem the obvious thing to do.
Love,
Caz |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2894
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 1:41 pm: |
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Chris
I get the very real impression that these women often used the name 'Kelly' when they were dealing with the many pawn shops of the Whitechapel area. |
N. Beresford.
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 2:10 pm: |
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Wolf,
"I get the very real impression that these women often used the name 'Kelly' when they were dealing with the many pawn shops of the Whitechapel area."
Why? Beresford |
AP Wolf
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Apwolf
Post Number: 2922
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 6:00 pm: |
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Because the name Kelly comes up often in criminal cases from the LVP where items have been pawned, even when the people associated with the case are not named Kelly.
Perhaps two of the victims included. |
