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Jason
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Posted on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 6:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Does anyone know what investigations, if any, were made concerning Joseph Flemming as Mary's killer? Also, maybe the FM on the well somehow was meant to refer to Flemming to cast suspicion on him by someone else or maybe by Flemming himself. Maybe FM was Mary Flemming backwards--that is, wishful thinking on the part of Flemming or a mocking gesture by Mary's killer, made by a jealous lover or JtR. What do others think?
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Sarah Long
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Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 9:28 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I'm not too sure about what investigations were made about Joe Flemming, if any. I'm not sure that the FM means anything. I've said somewhere before that if we sometimes see something that we don't understand our brains quickly translate it into something we do so the letters FM may not be really there at all, they may just be blood splashes that our brains are making more of than they actually are. If the killer did write FM on the wall though, I don't think they would have written anything backwards, although Jack did like his games so maybe they do mean something, we'll never know for certain though.

Sarah
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Caroline Anne Morris
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Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:19 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I say thank God the letters don’t look anything like JB!

What with that and the rumoured grave-spitting, and the gossiping old nun pontificating (“Mark my words, if it wasn’t for strumpets like Kelly, Jack wouldn’t have hurt a fly, tut tut tuttety tut etc etc”), poor old Joe would have been hung, drawn and quartered on these boards long ago and no mistake.

Love,

Caz
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Suzi Hanney
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Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi all!
Letters!!! come on!!!!!!!!!! p'raps it should have stood for Flemming 4 Mary!! Caz I love that idea! has anyone actually got anything SENSIBLE on that spitting 'toot'..Lawd luv us!!!Cheers
Suzi
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Robert Charles Linford
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Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Caz, maybe you can work the spitting into the Maybrick scenario and give it a Liverpool twist.

I suggest "The Saliva Birds".

Robert

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Suzi Hanney
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Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2004 - 4:49 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Robert-Verrrrrrrrry spitty remark old chap!!
Cheers
Suzi
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Jason
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Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello all: I don't understand why the above speculation is being mocked by people here...It was just speculation....no weirder than anything else here...why should people contribute anything here when when they do so they are mocked? Makes no sense.....Not very friendly or polite.
Regards, Jason
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Jason
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Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:47 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Nobody could even answer the question...I guess you have to be somebody "special"? to contribute here or else your head is bitten off!!


Take care, Jason
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Suzi Hanney
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Posted on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Jaso-Sorry if you feel like that!!..you'll get used to us!! We feel privileged if we're merely mocked!!
Don't give up 'eh!!
Cheers
Suzi
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Donald Souden
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Posted on Friday, January 09, 2004 - 4:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Jason,

Yes, your initial question was a reasonable one and deserves an answer. Since it was Joe Barnett who mentioned Flemming at the inquest I would think some of Barnett partisans on the boards might be able to help.

Leanne, Richard -- do you have anything on Flemming that won't compromise your projected book and which might answer Jason's question?

Don.
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Suzi Hanney
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Jason- I agree that the question was a good one...but does anyone actually know where JoeB and Joe F met.?? where and when?
Cheers
Suzi
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Caroline Anne Morris
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Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 11:49 am:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Robert,

I wonder if someone heard the name Joseph Flemming (any relation to the Fast Show’s Bob Flemming, who was always trying to clear his throat?), got the two Joes mixed up, and we finally ended up with this rather regrettable ‘spitting’ image.

Sounds like a good idea for a tv prog….

I quite liked Carla ‘Brick’ Lane’s ‘Saliva Birds’, but found her ‘Bread’ rather indigestible (and more up Kosminski’s alley), and couldn’t swallow ‘Butterflies’ for love nor money.

Love,

Caz


(Message edited by Caz on January 12, 2004)
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Suzi Hanney
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Hi Caz
You're obviously in the same frame of mind as me we're going to get told off big time soon..or should that be tolled off (!) as in Bow Bells!! Tee hee!! (I couldn't be doing with Bread either..will stick to fish and potatoes I think!!)
All best
Suzi
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Robert Charles Linford
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Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 4:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostView Post/Check IPPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hi Caz

Well, I never watched "Bread", and "Butterflies" irritated me.

One of my favourite sitcoms from yesteryear was "Only When I Laugh" starring James Bolam. Can you imagine Kelly as the perennial moaner, Figgis?

"I keep telling you, doctor! I'm not joined up properly!"

Robert
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Suzi Hanney
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Robert-
Butterfies in your tummy is a terrible thing!!..almost as bad as me bearing a hideous resemblance to Wendy Craig!!! (true!)
Eeek
Suzi
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Robert Charles Linford
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You don't look particularly like Wendy Craig, Suzi.

What's wrong with Wendy Craig, anyway? (not that I much cared for her sitcoms, but that's another matter)

Robert
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Suzi Hanney
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Robert-
Well maybe not so much now..but the nose is still there!! (unlike marys!!)..no offence to those who take it!!
Back to the poem.........
cheers Suzi
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Sarah Long
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Suzi,

You asked about when Joe B met Joe F (hmm sounds like the title to a film!!).

Well as far as I understood it they never met but Mary told Joe B about Joe F. Although apparently Joe F did visit Mary from time to time so maybe they did meet but I don't recall reading that they did.

Sarah
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Suzi Hanney
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Sarah-
Reckon you're right..thanks for that
Cheers
Suzi
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Jon Smyth
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Does anyone know where the suggestion, reported in the A-Z, p.463, that Flemming "ill-used her for living with Barnett", came from?.
It's a shame we have no knowledge of the whereabouts of Joe Flemming on the night of Nov. 9th.

Thanks, Jon
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Nina Thomas
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Jon,
The suggestion came from Julia Venturney. Part of her statement from the Kelly inquest was
"She broke the windows a few weeks ago whilst she was drunk, she told me she was very fond of another man named Joe, and he had ill-used her because she cohabitated with Joe (Barnett)."
Nina
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Leanne Perry
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G'day Nina,

Please tell us in which Newspaper, on which date you read the report that Julia Venturney said that at the actual inquest.

The 'New York Herald' 10 November, (which was two days before the inquest), said: 'but there was a side window with a pane broken in a quarrel she had A WEEK ago with a man with whom she cohabited.' The reporter probably got that information from Thomas Bowyer, (who, as I read in another report), was aware of the broken window before he even looked inside the room.

The question is: was one of the panes broken during that particular quarrel, and the other pane broken 'a few weeks' before it during another quarrel?

LEANNE

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A: Frankenfurterstein!



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Simon Owen
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I think one pane had been broken for ages and another pane was broken during Joe and Mary's final quarrel. I think the key gets lost somewhere between the breaking of the two panes of glass.
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Leanne Perry
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G'day,

Perhaps....just perhaps...the furthest pane was broken first, and only Joe had the ability to reach through and open the door for him and her. Then the pair quarrelled on the 30th of October and Joe threatened to leave, so Mary threw something and deliberately smashed the other pane to allow HER to reach the lock. What do ya think?

LEANNE

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Jon Smyth
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Thankyou Nina.
Yes Leanne, I thought it was in the press too, the Times does not mention it, neither does the Daily Telegraph. I did find it in Stewarts 'Sourcebook' pg 366, it was quoted from a file Ref. MJ/SPC, NE1888, Box 3, Case Paper 19.

It may be somewhere in the papers I just did not come across it last night. I knew I had the impression Joe Flemming was known as a violent type, that is with Kelly, but I couldn't remember where I got that impression from.
This statement in the A-Z was my only clue, so it was true then.

Regards, Jon
(I'll wager Bruce Paley wrote his expose on the wrong Joe)

(Message edited by Jon on August 13, 2004)
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Leanne Perry
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G'day Jon,

So do you think the newspapers interviewed the wrong Joe Barnett about Mary Kelly's death, the inquest heard the testimony of the wrong Joe Barnett, Julia Venturney and Elizabeth Prater were talking about some other Joe Barnett, or are you just stirring me?....or do you just want me to write another sick joke?

LEANNE

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"Shut up and get away from the dart board!"

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Jon Smyth
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No Leanne, I think Abberline should have got a statement from Joe Flemming, Kelly's previous lover, he appears to have known where she lived and was known to have been violent with her about her relationship with Barnett.
Flemming could have provided some missing info about the events of Nov. 9th, he certainly should have been contacted.
The police today would have tracked him down, his possible involvement may throw new light on this mystery-within-a-mystery.
Two's company, three's a crowd, the eternal triangle, maybe thats the motive here with Kelly's murder.

Regards, Jon
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Simon Owen
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Theres quite a few people who should have been interviewed in the Kelly investigation , but weren't - Joseph Flemming being just one of them !
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John Fogarty
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Jason,

According to Jim Tully, author of Prisoner 1167: The Madman Who Was Jack the Ripper, the Metropolitan police made a bee line for the home that suspect (and escaped wife-murderer) James Kelly was using. As a slightly daft, highly irascible lunatoid carriage upholsterer, he moved about quite a bit, staying variously with friends and even his former in-laws.

Tully claims the police were hot on his heels only hours after the MJK murder. So, either they'd been keeping an eye on him or they had some strong suspicions about him. Either way, he was not arrested, got clean away to Liverpoole (on foot!), and apparently spent the next 34 years drifting aimlessly back and forth from England to the U.S., until he finally checked himself back into the lunatic asylum from which he'd escaped all those years ago (Broadmore).

For further details, check out Tully's book. Although James Kelly is a bit of a stretch as Jack the Ripper, Tully knows how to spin a yarn.

Cheers!
Goryboy
Cheers,
John e-Rotten
(a.k.a., Goryboy)
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Nina Thomas
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Leanne,Jon,
The report I found on Julia Venturney came from Stewarts "The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion" p.407. Sorry I forgot to mention my source.
Nina

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