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. Author Frank Pearse, who purports to have access to a written confession, argues that the murders were performed by a man named John Pavitt Sawyer (who held multiple similarities, such as residence and profession, to alternate suspect George Chapman), as part of an occult Freemason initiation. [195]

e.g. Turnbull, Peter (1996). The Killer Who Never Was: A Re-appraisal of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888. ISBN 1-900540-00-2

WHY HE STARTED MURDERING

Gateacre, Liverpool This is the area of Liverpool in which the Janion family lived in the 1880s and 1890s. Today it is a built-up suburb of the city, but in the nineteenth century it was a rural village outside the city boundaries.

I do not have the courage to take my life. I pray each night I will find the strength to do so, but the courage alludes me. I pray constantly all will forgive. I deeply regret striking her, I have found it in my heart to forgive her for her lovers.Aronson, Theo (1994). Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld. John Murray. p.117. ISBN 0-7195-5278-8. The whore is in debt. Very well I shall honour the bitches notes but the whores are going to pay more than ever. I have read all of my deeds they have done me proud, I had to laugh, they have me down as left handed, a Doctor, a slaughterman and a Jew. Very well, if they are to insist that I am a Jew then a Jew I shall be. Why not let the Jews suffer? I have never taken to them, far too many of them on the Exchange for my liking. I could not stop laughing when I read Punch there for all to see was the first three letters of my surname. They are blind as they say. Tests carried out on the ink in the diary proved inconclusive, but Christopher said testing of the paper itself suggested the ink had been applied fairly recently. Furthermore, the handwriting style appeared modern, far from Victorian. Sisters of the Epiphany In 1904, Florence spent the last six months of her sentence under the care and supervision of the Sisters of the Epiphany in their convent in Truro in Cornwall. On 20th July 1904, Florence left the convent a free woman.

Autumn 1877 - According to Bateson, James developed malaria around this time and on the advice of Dr Wood started to take arsenic and strychnine. Dodd, PaulHe is the current owner of the whole of Battlecrease House in Riversdale Road, Aigburth, Liverpool. He has lived in the house for most of his life. Mr Paul Dodd and his wife live in one half of the house (number 6) and he has converted the other half (number 7) into flats. McDonald, Deborah (2014). The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p.200. ISBN 9781476616919.Likewise, her breasts were not placed on the bed side table, as is stated by the diarist but were, in fact, found beneath her body. Encountered an old friend on the Exchange floor. I felt regret for was he not Jewish. I had forgotten how many Jewish friends I have. My revenge is on whores not Jews. I do believe I am truly sorry for the scare I have thrown amongst them. I believe that is the reason I am unable to write my funny little rhymes. I thank God I have had the courage to stop sending them. I am convinced they will be my undoing. So help me God I will cut the bitch up and serve her up to the children. How dare the whore write to Michael. The damn bitch had no right to inform him of my medicine. If I have my funny little way the whore will be served up this very night. I stood my ground and informed Michael it was a damn lie. November 1859 - Holbrook St John Campbell Chandler, Florence’s brother, was born in Mobile, Alabama.