Homeless - A suspicious character - Illustrated London News - 13 October 1888
I have known for twenty years the identity of Jack the Ripper. It was so obvious who he was that it seemed I would be a spoil sport to reveal his name. But as no one has deciphered the clues and it has been some one hundred and twenty years since the murders it is time for me to give you amateur sleuths a little help. To start with Jack consistently donated a mountain of clues to the public clearly linking himself personally to these crimes. It is rather like his mentor, Edgar Allan Poe and his short story The Purloined Letter about obvious clues which everyone sees but no one comprehends. But to keep the game afoot for a little longer I will dribble out the clues which are already there for all to see as in the picture above, which was published while the Ripper was still very active, with what he thought of as his funny little mind games.
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Hi, According to Doyle, Dr. Watson’s name was John H. Watson, not James, although in one story only he was referred to as James. This led Sherlockians to conclude the H in his name stood for Hamish which is apparently the Scottish version of James. I am looking forward to your further clues.
I am going to go sort of slow on these clues to the identity of Jack, about one a week or so, because they are so obvious that once you see them there isn’t much of a game anymore. It is going to be all of the usual stuff, it’s just that once you know what clues to look for Jack’s identity becomes glaringly obvious. By the way his name is NOT on the usual list of suspects. The next Ripper blog will be a picture of the Dear Boss letter with a tiny hint. Once you see I might ask you to hold off broadcasting it on the internet for a while so others might have the fun of finding it for themselves.
Well then sir. Why not reveal to the world who this jack the ripper was and your evidence? If you truly know would you not find it your obligation as a citizen to let somone know? This is most likely an attempt to tell the public you know of his identity to make you along as a genius. Untill You can prove to me and the general public whom this grisly man was without tidbiting clues and prolonging your “answer”, You know nothing of this mans identity.
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very clever the conon doyle bit was clever but i have been led to belive it was prince albert victor. ironic though a writer who facinates thousands with his stories of sherlock holmes and crime was a murderer
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