DOCSLIB.ORG

Jack Is a Feminist Issue

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

June/July 2018 No. 162 A Tribute to Katherine Amin Jack is a Feminist Issue MIICHAEL HAWLEY SPOTLIGHT ON RIPPERCAST: COLIN WILSON AT THE 1996 CONFERENCE HEATHER TWEED NINA and HOW BROWN JAN BONDESON THE BIG QUESTION VICTORIAN FICTION THE LATEST BOOK REVIEWS Ripperologist 118 January 2011 1 Ripperologist 162 June / July 2018 EDITORIAL: WHAT’S IN A NAME? Adam Wood JACK IS A FEMINIST ISSUE Katherine Amin THE NEW YORK WORLD’S E. TRACY GREAVES AND HIS SCOTLAND YARD INFORMANT Michael L Hawley THE BIG QUESTION Did the Police Know the Identity of the Ripper? Spotlight on Rippercast COLIN WILSON AT THE 1996 RIPPER CONFERENCE ZAZEL – THE HUMAN CANNONBALL Heather Tweed BEHIND BRASS BADGES AND IRON BARS Nina and Howard Brown FORD MADOX FORD, MURDER HOUSE DETECTIVE Jan Bondeson VICTORIAN FICTION: GLEAMS FROM THE DARK CONTINENT: THE WIZARD OF SWAZI SWAMP By Charles J Mansford Eduardo Zinna BOOK REVIEWS Paul Begg and David Green Ripperologist magazine is published by Mango Books (www.MangoBooks.co.uk). The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in signed articles, essays, letters and other items published in Ripperologist Ripperologist, its editors or the publisher. The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in unsigned articles, essays, news reports, reviews and other items published in Ripperologist are the responsibility of Ripperologist and its editorial team, but are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views, conclusions and opinions of doWe not occasionally necessarily use reflect material the weopinions believe of has the been publisher. placed in the public domain. It is not always possible to identify and contact the copyright holder; if you claim ownership of something we have published we will be pleased to make a proper acknowledgement. The contents of Ripperologist No. 162, June / July 2018, including the compilation of all materials and the unsigned articles, essays, news reports, reviews and other items are copyright © 2018 Ripperologist/Mango Books. Cover photograph courtesy Trevor Bond. The authors of signed articles, essays, letters, news reports, reviews and other items retain the copyright of their respective contributions. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or otherwise circulated in any form or by any means, including digital, electronic, printed, mechanical, photocopying, recording or any other, without the prior permission in writing from Mango Books. The unauthorised domestic laws and international agreements and give rise to civil liability and criminal prosecution. reproduction or circulation of this publication or any part thereof, whether for monetary gain or not, is strictly prohibited and may constitute copyright infringement as defined in Ripperologist 162 June / July 2018 Editorial What’s in a Name? ADAM WOOD Executive Editor Welcome to the latest edition of Ripperologist. EXECUTIVE EDITOR Adam Wood We were delighted with the enthustiastic reception to our two new features, thank you all for your positive feedback. EDITORS Gareth Williams Firstly, The Big Question garnered some very interesting responses. Your Eduardo Zinna EDITOR-AT-LARGE comments to our first question - ‘Did the Police know the identity of the Ripper? - Jonathan Menges illustrate the wide-ranging thought processes of students of the case, and give great See page 22 for details. REVIEWS EDITOR food for thought. We hope that our next question meets the same consideration. Ripperologist 161 also saw the introduction of Spotlight on Rippercast, where Paul Begg COLUMNISTS Nina and Howard Brown RipperJonathan luminaries Menges transcribeson the photographs excerpts of from the victims. his extensive The second vault inof the Ripper-related series, given David Green podcast discussions. The first instalment saw a conversation between a number of in this issue, is a transcription of Ripper author Colin Wilson’s lecture delivered at ARTWORK Adam Wood fascinating reading. the very first Jack the Ripper Conference, at Ipswich way back in 1996. It makes for introduction to Alexander Kelly’s Jack the Ripper: A Bibliography and Review of Ripperologist magazine is It was Colin Wilson, of course, who first coined the term ‘Ripperologist’, in his published six times a year and the Literature supplied in digital format. It is free of charge to subscribers. years the word in has 1973, been and used this as work the title receives of this a magazine;brief mention perhaps at the still start the of most his 1996 lecture, with the author given his real name, David Streatfield. For some 23 appropriate phrase to describe the humble student of the Whitechapel murders. available in PDF format on our Back issues from 62-161 are website. An index to Ripperologist WhitechapelOver the years, murders of course, being thelegitimate term has history, been usedof course. less-than-kindly by ‘outsiders’ magazine can also be downloaded. to describe those interested in the case - we being seen as ‘weirdos’, despite the This perception has surfaced again, most recently on Twitter, with an exchange To be added to the mailing list, between Paul Begg and Hallie Rubenhold, author of the forthcoming book on the to submit a book for review or canonical victims, The Five. A debate ensued, with several of Hallie’s followers to place an advertisement, get in touch at contact@ripperologist. co.uk held beliefs being challenged; no doubt true of a very few, yet not the vast majority ofjoining researchers, in, claiming who thatwelcome Ripperology new information is a ‘closed with shop’ welcome that doesn’t arms. Nevertheless,like its long- articles on any aspect of the we look forward to Hallie’s book with great anticipation, and eagerly wait to hear We welcome well-researched Whitechapel murders, the East End or the Victorian era in general. We hope you enjoy this issue of Ripperologist what she has to say at the Whitechapel Society’s ‘Victims’ event on 8th September. www.ripperologist.co.uk , and don’t forget - we welcome your articles on all aspects of the case and the East end - especially those containing conventional wisdom-challenging information! 1 Ripperologist 162 June / July 2018 Jack is a Feminist Issue By KATHERINE AMIN 12 March 1980 - 15 July 2018 We were deeply saddened by the recent death of Katherine Amin née Bradshaw after a courageous battle with cancer. Kate embodied everything that was good in Ripperology. The following article, which we are proud to republish from 2015 as a tribute to Kate, perfectly showcases her understanding of the murders in both a modern and historical context. Jack the Ripper and Feminism; they don’t seem to be focusing on battles and military leaders or a Marxist natural allies do they? Recent events would seem to historian focusing on the role of class and class struggle suggest that, in fact, the only relationship between the in shaping society. Although I have a very broad interest two is a hostile one. I don’t believe that this is the case however. I believe that there is a very real distinction out the hidden stories of the part played by women in key between true study of the Ripper case and the sort in history I have certainly developed an interest in finding historical events. As there are many overlapping feminist of exploitative business endeavours which usually movements and ideologies that have developed over the incur the wrath of feminist groups. And it’s a wrath I sympathise with. For the sake of this article, I would like to clarify what Look at the preponderance of Ripper Merchandise and years it is difficult to come to a single definition. what you will see is a glamorised character, a folk myth in my reading of what historical feminism is in this context: victims. The history of the Ripper in the media seems to perspective and is a movement to promote women’s place a top hat often pictured with 1950s pinup-girl glamorous ‘Feminist History is the study of history from a female back this idea up. Jack the Myth, Jack the nursery rhyme villain, Jack the subject of a musical which promised in History, by ensuring equality of representation’. “scenes of fun, terror, song and dance”. To mythologise the So, does History now become ‘Herstory’, as one Ripper in such a way is, in my opinion, an affront to the No. Although a clever play on words, History as a pure women he killed, but it remains the public face of Jack. commenter on a Jack the Ripper webpage asked me? specialises. That being said, you may ask why so much discipline is not gender specific; it is the historian who written history tends to concentrate on men in a way The question remains, is there something inherently I call myself a feminist historian although in truth I misogynistic about having an interest in Jack the Ripper? that would have you believing women were a modern didn’t take a feminist degree, I am not Kate Bradshaw BA invention. This is simply because history has tended to Fem and I am not employed as a feminist teacher. I use focus on the lives of the rich and of the exploits of Kings this term because I have a special interest in the history and Leaders. Think back to the women of the past who of women. we remember: Elizabeth I perhaps, Cleopatra, even our own dear Queen Victoria, and what we are really seeing in history, you may for example be a military historian are women who took on roles meant for men. Scratch So, what is feminist history? There are lots of disciplines 2 Ripperologist 162 June / July 2018 the surface, however, and history is teeming with women Ripper are linked has to be considered the same way that whose stories have been forgotten by the multitude.
Recommended publications
  • Francis Tumblety Case Issues

    Francis Tumblety Case Issues

    Francis Tumblety Case Issues What was said of Tumblety What Tumblety said of himself What can we conclude about Francis Tumblety? Francis Tumblety Case Issues Introduction We often assume that a suspected person must have been bad one way or the other. And begin to pile up facts, assumptions, perceptions turning them into arguments, hypotheses and theories allowing us to come to a quick and familiar conclusion known in the JTR world as 'case closed, next case' Francis Tumblety Case Issues Introduction We are the product of our environment covering all its dimensions, family, society, culture, etc., the resulting mindset becomes our basic framework, even if we try to keep an open mind. This indidividual template becomes the basic tool hidden behind the way we interact with the world. Francis Tumblety Case Issues Introduction Don't ask: l Am I biased? l Is this source biased? But do ask: l What personal bias am I introducing? l What is this source’s bias? Francis Tumblety Case Issues How should we interpret sources? Francis Tumblety Case Issues The first step : conventional meaning. What one reads means what it says, nothing more than what a common understanding of a group of words, a sentence, for example, at a specific time, in a specific culture may mean. Knowing the literal meaning of each word at the time they were writtenis required. Francis Tumblety Case Issues The second step : contextual meaning The context of what is read or, to be more precise, the remaining portion of the text where the words were taken from.
  • ,I I D N a P P I T\J Er Oj

    ,I I D N a P P I T\J Er Oj

    ,, ,I I DN A p p I t\j er r oJ . or. TUM BLETY. · er ORDER or rHE .SECRETARY or:- WAR Or THC (J. s. I - A FEW T>ASSAGES TN 'fHE T,IFE OF \ DR. FRANCIS TUMBLETY, THE INDIAN HERB DOCTOR, INOLUDINO HIS EXPERJENOE IN THE OLD CAPITOL PRISON, TO WHICH HE WAS CONSIGNED,• WITR A. WANTON DISltEGARD TO JUSTICE A.ND LmERTY, BY ORDER OF EDWIN STA-NTON, SECRETARY OF WAR. ALSO JOURNALISTIC AND DOCUJIIENTARY VINDICATION OF HIS NAME AND FAME, AND PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONIALS / RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. CINCINNATI: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. \ 1866. C ) ' PREFACE. As, outside of my professional pursuits, my name'. for a brief period, was dragged before the public i.J1 a manner any thing but agreeable to my mental or bod- ily comfort, I have, equally in unison with the wishe:; of my friends, and with the am,ou1· p1·opre that ever~· person of an independent spirit, and a conscientiom, sense of rectitude should possess, concluded to publish the ensuing pages, not only in self-yindication, but to exhibit in its true light a persecution and despotism, in my case, that would hatdly be tolerated under th(• most absolute monarchy, and which should serve as 3 warning to all who believe in the twin truths of Lib- erty and Justice ; that eternal vigilance is the price of both, and how easy it is for unscrupulous partisan~ and ambitious men, when not restrained by the strict wishes of constitutional rights, with which the wisf' precaution of the fathers of the Republic guarded the liberties of the citizen, to trample upon the law, muzzle public sentiment, and run riot in a carnival of cruel and malignant tyranny.
  • The Stabbing of George Harry Storrs

    The Stabbing of George Harry Storrs

    THE STABBING OF GEORGE HARRY STORRS JONATHAN GOODMAN $15.00 THE STABBING OF GEORGE HARRY STORRS BY JONATHAN GOODMAN OCTOBER OF 1910 WAS A VINTAGE MONTH FOR murder trials in England. On Saturday, the twenty-second, after a five-day trial at the Old Bailey in London, the expatriate American doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen was found guilty of poi­ soning his wife Cora, who was best known by her stage name of Belle Elmore. And on the following Monday, Mark Wilde entered the dock in Court Number One at Chester Castle to stand trial for the stabbing of George Harry Storrs. He was the second person to be tried for the murder—the first, Cornelius Howard, a cousin of the victim, having earlier been found not guilty. The "Gorse Hall mystery," as it became known from its mise-en-scene, the stately residence of the murdered man near the town of Stalybridge in Cheshire, was at that time almost twelve months old; and it had captured the imagination of the British public since the morning of November 2, 1909, when, according to one reporter, "the whole country was thrilled with the news of the outrage." Though Storrs, a wealthy mill-owner, had only a few weeks before erected a massive alarm bell on the roof of Gorse Hall after telling the police of an attempt on his life, it did not save him from being stabbed to death by a mysterious intruder. Storrs died of multiple wounds with­ out revealing anything about his attacker, though it was the impression of [Continued on back flap] THE STABBING OF GEORGE HARRY STORRS THE STABBING OF JONATHAN GOODMAN OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS COLUMBUS Copyright © 1983 by the Ohio State University Press All rights reserved.
  • EXAMINER Issue 4.Pdf

    EXAMINER Issue 4.Pdf

    Jabez Balfour THE CASEBOOK The Cattleman, Analyses The Lunatic, The Ripper & The Doctor Murders Tom Wescott issue four October 2010 JACK THE RIPPER STUDIES, TRUE CRIME & L.V.P. SOCIAL HISTORY INTERNatIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY R J Palmer concludes his examination of Inspector Andrews D M Gates Puts his stamp GOING on the 1888 Kelly Postal POStal Directory THE CASEBOOK The contents of Casebook Examiner No. 4 October 2010 are copyright © 2010 Casebook.org. The authors of issue four signed articles, essays, letters, reviews October 2010 and other items retain the copyright of their respective contributions. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication, except for brief quotations where credit is given, may be repro- CONTENTS: duced, stored in a retrieval system, The Lull Before the Storm pg 3 On The Case transmitted or otherwise circulated in any form or by any means, including Subscription Information pg 5 News From Ripper World pg 120 digital, electronic, printed, mechani- On The Case Extra Behind the Scenes in America cal, photocopying, recording or any Feature Stories pg 121 R. J. Palmer pg 6 other, without the express written per- Plotting the 1888 Kelly Directory On The Case Puzzling mission of Casebook.org. The unau- D. M. Gates pg 52 Conundrums Logic Puzzle pg 128 thorized reproduction or circulation of Jabez Balfour and The Ripper Ultimate Ripperologists’ Tour this publication or any part thereof, Murders pg 65 Canterbury to Hampton whether for monetary gain or not, is & Herne Bay, Kent pg 130 strictly prohibited and may constitute The Cattleman, The Lunatic, and copyright infringement as defined in The Doctor CSI: Whitechapel Tom Wescott pg 84 Catherine Eddowes pg 138 domestic laws and international agree- From the Casebook Archives ments and give rise to civil liability and Undercover Investigations criminal prosecution.
  • AMEER BEN ALI NINA and HOWARD BROWN with the Face of ‘Frenchy’

    AMEER BEN ALI NINA and HOWARD BROWN with the Face of ‘Frenchy’

    June 2020 No. 167 AMEER BEN ALI NINA AND HOWARD BROWN with the face of ‘Frenchy’ sheilLa JONES AND JIM BURNS MICHAEL HAWLEY • ADAM WOOD • BRUCE COLLIE SPOTLIGHT ON RIPPERCAST VICTORIAN FICTION • PRESS TRAWL the latest book reviewsRipperologist 118 January 2011 1 Ripperologist 167 JUNE 2020 EDITORIAL: CONTEXT IS KING Adam Wood FRANCIS TUMBLETY AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH’S ERRAND BOY Michael L. Hawley THE SWANSON MARGINALIA: MORE SCRIBBLINGS Adam Wood MRS. BOOTH’S MOST UNUSUAL ENQUIRY BUREAU Sheilla Jones and Jim Burns CENTRAL NEWS Bruce Collie Spotlight on Rippercast: THE ROYAL CONSPIRACY A-GO-GO Part One AMEER BEN ALI AND AN ACTOR’S TALE Nina and Howard Brown Press Trawl THE SHORT REIGN OF LEATHER APRON VICTORIAN FICTION Eduardo Zinna BOOK REVIEWS Paul Begg and David Green Ripperologist magazine is published by Mango Books (www.MangoBooks.co.uk). The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in signed articles, essays, letters and other items published in Ripperologist Ripperologist, its editors or the publisher. The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in unsigned articles, essays, news reports, reviews and other items published in Ripperologist are the responsibility of Ripperologist and its editorial team, but are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views, conclusions and opinions of doWe not occasionally necessarily use reflect material the weopinions believe of has the been publisher. placed in the public domain. It is not always possible to identify and contact the copyright holder; if you claim ownership of something we have published we will be pleased to make a proper acknowledgement. The contents of Ripperologist No.
  • Intouch Liverpool

    Intouch Liverpool

    WINTER 2018 InTouch Liverpool www.cii.co.uk/liverpool I @insureLiv I The Insurance Institute of Liverpool WELCOME Well doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! I’m now half way through my year as President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool and our committee have been extremely busy over the past six months organising and hosting events for all our members. We are very lucky to have such a dedicated This is always a fun event to get us all in group of people on our committee. So the festive mood. If you haven’t booked much energy goes into providing support your place yet, please register through our for our members at a local level and a lot of website. it is done in the committee’s own time. January will see our annual dinner take The Insurance Institute Games got off to a place at the Crown Plaza in Liverpool. brilliant start with nine teams participating. Bookings are already being taken for this After the first two events Barnett prestigious event and we hope to see many Waddingham are at the top of our leader of you there in your Black-Tie regalia. board, with Quilter Cheviot and Pavis close behind. Lots of fun was had at our To mark International Women’s Day next school sports day-style event. Participants March, we’re hosting a special social event got to enjoy lots of types of sports, it was jointly with the CISI in Liverpool with an extremely competitive, and we’re pleased emphasis on diversity and equality.
  • Dr. Francis Tumblety's Two Year Sojourn in the Capital

    Dr. Francis Tumblety's Two Year Sojourn in the Capital

    Dr. Francis Tumblety’s Two Year Sojourn in the Capital Michael L. Hawley On December 1, 1888, New York City lawyer Charles Dunham gave an interview to the New York World and stated he met Whitechapel murder suspect Francis Tumblety in Washington DC soon after the Civil War’s First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861. He gave a damning account of personally witnessing Tumblety’s collection of uterus specimens, the same organ that was taken from two of the Whitechapel fiend’s victims: He is not a doctor. A more arrant charlatan and quack never fattened on the hopes and fears of afflicted humanity. I first made the fellow's acquaintance a few days after the battle of Bull Run. Although a very young man at the time I held a colonel's commission in the army, and was at the capital on official business.... One day my lieutenant-colonel and myself accepted the 'doctor's' invitation to a late dinner--symposium, he called it--at his rooms. He had very cosy and tastefully arranged quarters in, I believe, H. street. There were three rooms on a floor, the rear one being his office, with a bedroom or two a story higher… Then he invited us into his office where he illustrated his lecture, so to speak. One side of this room was entirely occupied with cases, outwardly resembling wardrobes. When the doors were opened quite a museum was revealed--tiers of shelves with glass jars and cases, some round and others square, filled with all sorts of anatomical specimens.
  • Henry Farquharson, M.P. Joanna Whatley LOOKS at the PAST of the ‘Untrustworthy’ Source of Macnaghten’S ‘Private Information’

    Henry Farquharson, M.P. Joanna Whatley LOOKS at the PAST of the ‘Untrustworthy’ Source of Macnaghten’S ‘Private Information’

    March 2020 No. 166 Henry Farquharson, M.P. Joanna whatley LOOKS AT THE PAST OF the ‘Untrustworthy’ Source of Macnaghten’s ‘Private Information’ MICHAEL HAWLEY • martin baggoley from the archives: sex or no sex? SPOTLIGHT ON RIPPERCAST • NINA & howard brown the latest book reviewsRipperologist 118 January 2011 1 Ripperologist 166 March 2020 EDITORIAL: Pandemic, 1892 Adam Wood HENRY RICHARD FARQUHARSON, M.P. The Untrustworthy Source of Macnaghten’s ‘Private Information’? Joanna Whately INSPECTOR ANDREWS’ ORDERS TO NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 1888 Michael L. Hawley ELIZA ROSS The Female Burker Martin Baggoley FROM THE ARCHIVES: SEX OR NO SEX? Amanda Howard Spotlight on Rippercast: RIPPERCAST REVIEWS ‘THE FIVE’ BY HALLIE RUBENHOLD MURDERS EXPLAINED BY LONDON BRAINS Nina and Howard Brown VICTORIAN FICTION Eduardo Zinna BOOK REVIEWS Paul Begg and David Green Ripperologist magazine is published by Mango Books (www.MangoBooks.co.uk). The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in signed articles, essays, letters and other items published in Ripperologist Ripperologist, its editors or the publisher. The views, conclusions and opinions expressed in unsigned articles, essays, news reports, reviews and other items published in Ripperologist are the responsibility of Ripperologist and its editorial team, but are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views, conclusions and opinions of doWe not occasionally necessarily use reflect material the weopinions believe of has the been publisher. placed in the public domain. It is not always possible to identify and contact the copyright holder; if you claim ownership of something we have published we will be pleased to make a proper acknowledgement. The contents of Ripperologist No.
  • Download Download

    Download Download

    04 Twohig Article.qxd 1/31/2011 1:07 PM Page 70 The “Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor”: Francis Tumblety in Saint John, 1860 PETER L. TWOHIG Francis Tumblety, le « célèbre docteur spécialiste des herbes indiennes », arriva à Saint John à l’été de 1860. Il fut vite en conflit avec la communauté médicale établie et fut même accusé d’homicide involontaire. Cet article s’intéresse au bref séjour de Tumblety à Saint John comme une façon d’illustrer le caractère contesté de la pratique de la médecine au milieu du 19e siècle. La carrière d’un tel praticien jette un éclairage sur l’éventail des choix thérapeutiques qui étaient offerts durant ces années et sur la lutte livrée par la médecine conventionnelle pour limiter ces choix. Francis Tumblety, the “Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor,” arrived in Saint John in the summer of 1860. He quickly became embroiled in conflict with the established medical community and even stood accused of manslaughter. This article examines Tumblety’s brief stay in Saint John as a way of illustrating the contested nature of medical practice in the mid-19th century. Understanding the career of such a practitioner provides insight into the range of therapeutic choices that were available during these years and into the struggle of orthodox medicine to limit these choices. IN THE SUMMER OF 1860, the “Celebrated Indian Herb Doctor” Francis Tumblety arrived in Saint John, New Brunswick. Advertisements began appearing in the local papers, announcing Tumblety’s arrival from the Province of Canada and the opening of his office in American House on King Street.1 Francis Tumblety’s arrival in Saint 1 The earliest advertisements appear in the following newspapers: Morning News (Saint John), 29 June 1860; The Morning Freeman (Saint John), 5 July 1860; and New Brunswicker (Saint John), 17 July 1860.
  • {PDF EPUB} the American Murders of Jack the Ripper Tantalizing

    {PDF EPUB} the American Murders of Jack the Ripper Tantalizing

    Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The American Murders of Jack the Ripper Tantalizing Evidence of the Gruesome American Interlude of t Jack the Ripper's identity may finally be known, thanks to DNA. The identity of Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer from the late 1800s in England, may finally be known. A DNA forensic investigation published this month by two British researchers in the Journal of Forensic Science identifies Aaron Kosminski, a 23- year-old Polish barber and prime suspect at the time, as the likely killer. The "semen stains match the sequences of one of the main police suspects, Aaron Kosminski," said the study authored by Jari Louhelainen of Liverpool John Moores University and David Miller of the University of Leeds. The murderer dubbed Jack the Ripper killed at least five women from August to November 1888 in the Whitechapel district of London. The study's authors conducted genetic testing of blood and semen on a shawl found near the body of Catherine Eddowes, the killer's fourth victim, whose badly mutilated body was discovered on Sept. 30, 1888. The brutal murders and the mystery behind the killer's identity and motive inspired countless novels, films and theories over the past 130 years. Kosminski, who apparently vanished after the murders, has previously been named as a possible suspect, but his guilt has been a matter of debate and never confirmed. The researchers said they have been analyzing the silk shawl for the past eight years and that to their knowledge "the shawl referred to in this paper is the only piece of physical evidence known to be associated with these murders." Through analysis of fragments of the victim and suspect's mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down solely from one's mother, researchers were able to compare that with samples taken from living descendants of Eddowes and Kosminski.
  • Was Charles Le Grand Jack the Ripper?

    Was Charles Le Grand Jack the Ripper?

    Inspector THE CASEBOOK Andrews Part Two R. J. Palmer issue two A Red Rose? June 2010 Stewart P. Evans JACK THE RIPPER STUDIES, TRUE CRIME & L.V.P. SOCIAL HISTORY ANOTHER GLIMPSE OF Presented by JOSEPH Chris Phillips LAWENDE THE NOT JUST USUAL SUSPECTS! Tom Wescott introduces us to Charles Le Grand THE CASEBOOK The contents of Casebook Examiner No. 2 June 2010 are copyright © 2010 Casebook.org. The authors of signed issue two articles, essays, letters, reviews and June 2010 other items retain the copyright of their respective contributions. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication, except for brief quotations where credit is given, may be repro- CONTENTS: duced, stored in a retrieval system, Friendship Never Ends pg 3 Collectors Corner transmitted or otherwise circulated in any form or by any means, including Subscription Information pg 6 Expert Advice pg 116 digital, electronic, printed, mechani- Another Glimpse of On The Case News From Ripper World pg 118 cal, photocopying, recording or any Joseph Lawende other, without the express written per- Chris Phillips pg 7 On The Case Extra mission of Casebook.org. The unau- Feature Story pg 121 Le Grand: The New Prime Suspect thorized reproduction or circulation of Tom Wescott pg 13 Ultimate Ripperologists’ Tour this publication or any part thereof, Dr. Anderson, Dr. Tumblety Liverpool Street to Romford pg 124 whether for monetary gain or not, is & a Voyage to Canada CSI: Whitechapel strictly prohibited and may constitute R. J. Palmer pg 66 Annie Chapman pg 134 copyright infringement as defined in A Red Rose? From the Casebook Archives domestic laws and international agree- Stweart P.
  • HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY by E

    HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY by E

    ROCHESTER HISTORY Edited by Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck City Historian Vol. LXVII Spring, 2005 No. 2 HOLY SEPULCHRE CEMETERY by E. Robert Vogt Bronze statue of Bishop Bernard McQuaid, founder of Holy Sepulchre Cemterx. Cover: All Souls Chapel ROCHESTER HISTORY, published quarterly by Office of the City Historian. Address correspondence to City Historian, Rochester Public Library, 1 \5 South Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604. www.libraryweb.org Subscriptions to the quarterly Rochester History are $8.00 per year by mail. Foreign subscriptions $12.00 per year, $4.00 per copy back issue. Rochester History is funded in part from the Frances Kenyon Publication Fund, established in memory of her sister, Florence Taber Kenyon and her friend Thelma Jeffries. PRESSTEK-4 ©OFFICE OF THE CITY HISTORIAN 2004 A New Vision The story of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery cannot be told without some background of the founder. Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid and his philos- ophy on the mission of a Catholic Cemetery for the newly formed Diocese of Rochester. McQuaid was a man of strong convictions, which developed from his early years when he was orphaned at the age of seven and raised by the Sisters of Charity in New York City. The Sisters gave him an excellent education and when he indicated his desire to study for the priesthood, they arranged for him to attend a Preparatory Seminary in Chambly, Quebec, Canada. He completed final studies at St. Joseph's Seminary, Fordham, New York. He was ordained in 1848. Upon his ordination for the Diocese of New York, he was assigned to pastorates in New Jersey, then part of the New York Diocese.