The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick

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James Kenneth Stephen (25 February 1859 – 3 February 1892) was first suggested as a suspect in a biography of another Ripper suspect, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale by Michael Harrison published in 1972. Harrison dismissed the idea that Albert Victor was the Ripper but instead suggested that Stephen, a poet and one of Albert Victor's tutors from Trinity College, Cambridge, was a more likely suspect. Harrison's suggestion was based on Stephen's misogynistic writings and on similarities between his handwriting and that of the "From Hell" letter, supposedly written by the Ripper. Harrison supposed that Stephen may have had sexual feelings for Albert Victor and that Stephen's hatred of women arose from jealousy because Albert Victor preferred female company and did not reciprocate Stephen's feelings. [159] However, Harrison's analysis was rebutted by professional document examiners. [160] There is no proof that Stephen was ever in love with Albert Victor, [161] although he did commit suicide by starvation shortly after hearing of Albert's death. [162] [163] There isn't any credible evidence for the diary being real, but some people want to believe it," Christopher said. In his memorandum, Macnaghten stated that no one was ever identified as the Ripper, which directly contradicts Anderson's recollection. [27] In 1987, author Martin Fido searched asylum records for any inmates called Kosminski, and found only one: Aaron Kosminski. Kosminski lived in Whitechapel; [28] however, he was largely harmless in the asylum. His insanity took the form of auditory hallucinations, a paranoid fear of being fed by other people, a refusal to wash or bathe, and "self-abuse". [29] In his book The Cases That Haunt Us, former FBI profiler John Douglas states that a paranoid individual such as Kosminski would likely have openly boasted of the murders while incarcerated had he been the killer, but there is no record that he ever did so. [30] Church Alley At the time of James’ birth in 1838, his family lived in 8 Church Alley. It was a small narrow road that ran into Church Street, one of the Liverpool’s main city-centre streets.

So the jury is still very much out on whether or not the diary's authenticity has been scientifically proven. DETAILS WITHIN THE DIARY I am convinced God placed me here to kill all whores, for he must have done so, am I still not here. Nothing will stop me now. The more I take the stronger I become. James, after all, was a known user of arsenic, and had amassed a huge quantity of the poison over the years - enough to kill 50 people. What motive did Florence have to see her husband dead? The money left to her in his will was minimal, and she would have been financially better off with him alive and divorced from her. Right from the very start of the investigation it was clear the police believed a murder had been committed and Florence was the only suspect. In their eyes, she had the motive, the opportunity and the means to kill her husband. The motive was supplied by her affair with Brierley. The opportunity was the fact that she, alone at first, provided James with food and medicine when he was ill. The means was she had access to a large amount of arsenic. Influenced by the circumstantial evidence, gossip and pressure from James’ family and friends, they pursued Florence with a single-mindedness that left her isolated and extremely vulnerable. For example, while Florence’s clothes were sent for testing, none of James’ clothes were tested. In a letter written just prior to her trial, Florence wrote to a friend, ‘I hear the police are untiring and getting up the case against me regardless of expense.’ Despite this blinkered approach by the police, it was clear even before the case came to court that there were serious flaws in the prosecution’s arguments. Stories began to circulate in the Liverpool press about James’ personal life including the fact he appeared to have a long-term mistress and was in the habit of taking arsenic.

The Alleged Diary Of Jack The Ripper

On Monday afternoon, Florence received a letter from Brierley saying he is about to leave for the continent. August 1865 - The researcher, Keith Skinner, found what is believed to be Sarah Robertson’s Bible and it contained the inscription, ‘To my darling Piggy. From her affectionate husband JM. On her birthday August 2nd 1865.’

so help me God my next will be far the worst, my head aches, but I will go on dam Michael for being so clever the art of verse is far from simple. I curse him so. Abberline Abberline, I shall destroy that fool yet, So help me God. Banish him from my thoughts, he will not catch Sir Jim yet According to the Russell document prepared for Florence’s trial; James left Liverpool when he was twenty and went to work in a ‘Shipbroker’s office in London and met Sarah Robertson., 18, [she was actually older than that] an assistant in a jewellers shop, she lived with him on and off for 20 years as his wife. Her relatives thought she was married and she passed as Mrs M with them, They have five children all now dead.’ Tin match box empty’ These words written in the Diary and relating to the murder of Catherine Eddowes, have proved to be one of the most controversial of all the passages in the whole document. To some this is clear proof that the document is genuine, to others it is definitive proof that the Diary is a modern fake. The reason for the controversy is that the empty tin matchbox was not known to the general public until 1987 when a

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Change of government; Asquith replaces Matthews at the Home Office. Legal brief produced by Lumley and Lumley, solicitors, making the case for a retrial. Asquith rejects the brief from Florence’s solicitors. McDonald, Deborah (2014). The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p.200. ISBN 9781476616919. Am I not indeed a clever fellow? It makes me laugh they will never understand why I did so. Next time I will remember the chalk and write my funny little rhyme. The eyes will come out of the next. I will stuff them in the whores mouth. That will certainly give me pleasure, it does so as I write. Tonight I will see mine, she will be pleased as I will be gentle with her as indeed I always am. October 1865 - Caroline Du Barry, Florence’s mother, marries for a third time. She marries the mysterious Charles Rebello in New Jersey. Marriage was very short-lived and the couple divorce in 1868.

Harrison, Michael (1972). Clarence: The life of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892). London, England: W. H. Allen. pp.164–181. ISBN 0-491-00722-1. Prison years: Florence spent 15 years in prison before being released but never pardoned. She was in Woking prison from 1889 to 1895. She was in Aylesbury prison from 1895-1904. Florence's time in prison was marked by both hope and despair. When she first entered prison she had to face the horror of solitary confinement and the silent system. Later, there were moments when she believed she might be released and her spirits soared; however, when all her pleas for a pardon were rejected she became very depressed and ill. At one point in Woking she was close to death.A re-examination of her case resulted in her release in 1904. She supported herself through various occupations until her death on 23 October 1941. From her initial incarceration until her death, she never saw her children again. Baroness von Roques and Florence also travel to New York but on the steamship, SS Celtic. The Baroness is fighting a court case in New York against Isaac Rosenthal, a banker from Wiesbaden. Vanderlinden, Wolf (2008). "Carl Ferdinand Feigenbaum: An Old Suspect Resurfaces", in Ripper Notes: The Legend Continues, Inklings Press, pp. 4–24, ISBN 978-0-9789112-2-5 I have a strange sense that she is still in one of those first-floor rooms. Three days after James’ death, Florence was taken away by the police in horse and carriage, down the drive of Battlecrease, a drive I am almost certainly trespassing on.