2. The Life of General Sir Charles Warren, by Watkin W. Williams (p.70 et seq.)
3. Ibid. (p.73)
4. Ibid. (p.74)
5. Palestine Exploration Fund quarterly statement for 1876 (p.137)
6. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, March 1887 (p.37)
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid. (pp.41–2)
9. The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millennium B.C., by Stanley A. Cook, Archibald Constable & Co., London, 1908 (p.39)
10. Bible Side-Lights: A Record of Excavation and Discovery in Palestine, by R. A. Stewart Macalister, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., London (p.72)
11. Punch, 14 August 1886 (p.75)
12. The Echo, Wednesday, 3 October 1888
13. The Times, 9 October 1888
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. The Times, 4 October 1888
18. The Times, 9 October 1888
19. Bradford Observer, 13 September 1888
20. Bradford Observer, Thursday, 4 October 1888
21. New York Herald, 2 October 1888
22. The Echo, Monday, 1 October 1888
23. The Times, 9 October 1888
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Public Opinion, 12 October 1888
34. The Echo, Wednesday, 3 October 1888
35. Bradford Observer, Monday, 8 October 1888
36. Ibid.
37. Reported Bradford Observer, Thursday, 13 September 1888
38. New York Herald, 2 October 1888
39. JTR letter, 22 October 1888
40. History of the Royal Engineers, by Whitworth Porter, 1889, Vol. 2 (p.66). See also The Life of Sir Charles Warren, by Watkin W. Williams (p.139)
41. Home Office Minutes, 24 October 1888. No. A49301/E/3
42. Illustrated Weekly Telegraph, Bradford, 3 November 1888
43. Evening News, 18 October 1888
44. Evening News, 19 October 1888
45. The Times, 18 October 1888
46. Jack the Ripper and the London Press, by L. Perry Curtis 2001 (pp.180–1)
47. The Times, 20 October 1888
48. Maggots, Murder and Men, by Zakaria Erzinclioglu, Harley Books, Colchester, 2003 (p.69)
49. The Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Brian Lane (ed.), Headline Books, 1992
50. The Times, Register of Events in 1888, Saturday, 29 September (p.157)
51. Dr Mark Benecke, ‘The Great Maggot Detective,’ Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 6 March 2003 (p.22)
52. Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist, by James A. Brussel, with an introduction by Gerold Frank, Dell, 1968 (p.12)
53. Ibid. (p.149 et seq.)
54. The Times, 23 October 1888
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
Chapter 13: A Gentleman’s Lair
1. The Toynbee Record, December 1888 (p.31)
2. Fifth Annual Report (Toynbee Hall), 1889
3. Canon Barnett by His Wife, John Murray, London, 1921 (p.161)
4. Ibid. (p.479)
5. Toynbee Hall, by J. A. R. Pimlot, J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, London, 1935 (p.82)
6. Canon Barnett by His Wife (p.694)
7. Robert K. Ressler was a supervisory Special Agent with the FBI. He has served as an instructor and criminologist at the FBI’s training academy since 1974, and is on the faculty of the FBI Academy in the Behavioral Science Unit. Robert D. Keppel is the Chief Criminal Investigator for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. He has a Ph.D in criminal justice from the University of Washington and has been an investigator or consultant to over 2,000 murder cases and over fifty serial murder investigations.
8. New York Herald, 19 July 1889
9. Mapping Murder, by Professor David Canter, Virgin Books, 2003 (pp.92–3)
10. The Windsor Magazine, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1898 (p.541). See also: Quintin Hogg: A Biography, by Ethel Hogg, Constable & Co., London, 1904
11. The Story of My Life, by the Right Honourable Sir Edward Clarke, K.C., John Murray, London, 1923 (p.29)
12. Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist, by James A. Brussel (p.12). This is actually in the introduction to his book, written by Gerold Frank
13. The Freemason, 6 February 1892 (p.67)
14. East London Observer, 7 February 1885
15. The Toynbee Record, October 1888 (p.11)
16. Joined in 1879 and 1882 respectively
17. Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein, Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1932 (p.30)
18. Memories of the Artists Rifles, by Colonel H. A. R. May, Howlett & Son, London, 1929 (p.260)
19. ‘He would kidnap his victims from the parking lot of a restaurant and transport them elsewhere for rape and murder. Unlike many organized offenders, he would leave the bodies in locations that were only partially concealed, and then would call the police and report seeing a body. As the police rushed to the location of that body, the offender rushed back to the hospital, so that when the call from the police came to the hospital for an ambulance to be dispatched, he would be in a position to answer that call.’ Whoever Fights Monsters, by Robert K. Ressler and Tom Shachtman (p.120)
20. Ibid. (p.116)
21. ‘Most serial killers have been living with their fantasies for years before they finally bubble to the surface and are translated into deeds.’ Robert D. Keppel (p.7)
22. East London Observer, 11 August 1888
23. Ibid.
24. Days of My Years, by Sir Melville Macnaghten
25. Pall Mall Gazette, 31 March 1903
26. The Times, 19 July 1889
27. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, March 1887 (p.37)
28. Macnaghten (p.62). Simon Pure: the real man. In Mrs Centlivre’s Bold Stroke for a Wife, a Colonel Feignwell passes himself off as Simon Pure, and wins the heart of Miss Lovely. No sooner does he get the assent of her guardian than the veritable Quaker shows himself, and proves, beyond a doubt, that he is the real Simon Pure. (Source: M. N. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (p.1144)
29. Morals and Dogma, by Albert Pike (p.75)
30. The Times, Thursday, 15 August 1889
31. Isle of Wight Observer, Saturday, 20 September 1913
32. Crashaw was popular with the Victorians. His poems are reviewed alongside those of Frederick Weatherly in The Times of 23 December 1884, the pair of them appearing in the same article, entitled ‘The Poets of Christmas’.
33. The Meaning of Masonry, by W. L. Wilmshurst, Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1927 (pp.167–8)
34. The Jack the Ripper A to Z , by Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner, 2010 (p.64)
35. New York Herald, 17 July 1889
36. New York Tribune, 11 November 1888
Chapter 14: ‘Orpheus’
1. Deposition of Mr Edward Garnet Heaton, Pharmacist, at Mrs. Maybrick’s trial. The Trial of Mrs. Maybrick, edited by H. B. Irving, William Hodge & Co., London, 1912 (pp.192–4)
2. Inscribed ‘on her birthday’, 2 August 1865. Jack the Ripper: The Final Chapter, by Paul Feldman, Virgin, London, 1997 (p.123)
3. ‘There is a woman – who calls herself Mrs. Maybrick, and who claims to have been James Maybrick’s real wife. She was staying on a visit at a somewhat out of the way, at 8, Dundas St, Monkwearmouth, during the Trial.’ Alexander Macdougall (pp.20–1)
4. Evidence of Elizabeth Humphreys, at the trial of Mrs Maybrick, Irving (p.83)
5. Review of Reviews, edited by W. T. Stead, Vol. VI, July–December 1892 (392)
6. Michael Maybrick interview, New York Herald (London edition), Wednesday, 21 August 1889
7. Part II of Longfellow’s ‘Christus: The Golden Legend’
8. Orpheus from Consecration to Jubilee, by Bro G. T. E. Sheddon, 1977 (p.1)
; 9. Letter from the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 29 October 2001
10. Royal Arch Working Explained, by Ex. Comp. Herbert F. Inman, Spencer & Co., London, 1933 (p.170)
11. Constitutions of Free and Accepted Masons, United Grand Lodge of England, by Colonel Shadwell H. Clerke, London, 1884 (p.viii)
12. The Cotton Trade of Great Britain, by Thomas Ellison (first edition 1886) (p.258)
13. Letter from myself to the Supreme Council, 10 Duke Street, London, 7 March 2002
14. Reply from Supreme Council 33º (Ref 2412/nrb), 8 March 2002
15. It’s one thing to clutch at straws and another to clutch at water. While it is true that the so-called ‘diary’ passed through Mike Barrett’s hands on its journey to the light, it is equally true that he had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of it. If Barrett was the author of this document, why is its provenance protected by the Metropolitan Police?
In 2009, under provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, Keith Skinner made an application to obtain what is known of the provenance of this ‘diary’. The request was refused by the Metropolitan Police, on grounds that most certainly did not include the authorial fantasies of Mr Michael Barrett.
‘Freedom of Information Request No: 2009080005788
Dear Mr. Skinner, I respond in connection with your request for information dated 19/08/2009, which was received by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on 24/08/2009. Decision: In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act), this letter represents a refusal notice for this particular request under Section 17(4). No inference can be taken from this refusal that the information you have requested does or does not exist.
Yours sincerely Ben Sayers Specialist Crime Directorate SCD Senior Information Manager’
In other words, the provenance of this document, which either does or does not exist, must remain a ‘mystery’. Put that in context with the rest of the ‘Mystery of Jack the Ripper’, and we get a pretty good idea of what the ‘mystery’ is.
In my view this ‘diary’ was not written by Michael Barrett but by Michael Maybrick, and it is consistent with the rest of the poison he disseminated in an attempt to implicate his brother James as the Ripper. I believe this example of it was concealed at Battlecrease House, where it remained undiscovered for about a hundred years. I don’t need it to bust Michael Maybrick, but it gives me a perverse satisfaction to know that this repugnant criminal ended up busting himself.
16. Also reported in the Pall Mall Gazette, 12 October 1888
Chapter 15: ‘The Ezekiel Hit’
1. Jack the Ripper letter to Central News, 19 October 1888
2. Note: Hutchinson added further invention to his description, including ‘his watch chain had a big seal with a red stone hanging from it’. The Times, Wednesday, 14 November 1888
3. Ibid.
4. The Globe, Friday, 9 November 1888
5. The Graphic, 17 November 1888
6. Manchester Evening News, Friday, 9 November 1888
7. ‘Sir C. Warren arrived at a quarter to two in a hansom cab.’ Manchester Evening News, 9 November 1888
8. Daily Telegraph, Saturday, 10 November 1888
9. Ibid.
10. Daily Telegraph, Thursday, 20 September 1888 (4th session of inquest into the death of Annie Chapman)
11. The Times, Thursday, 11 October 1888
12. St James’s Gazette, 10 November 1888
13. Evening Express, 12 November 1888
14. Pall Mall Gazette, 10 November 1888
15. Manchester Evening News, 9 November 1888
16. Yorkshire Post, 10 November 1888
17. Evening News, Monday, 12 November 1888
18. The Times, Monday, 12 November 1888
19. Evening Post, 9 November 1888
20. Report from Dr Thomas Bond, requested by Robert Anderson and submitted 10 November 1888, HO 144/221/A49301C/ff217-232
21. According to Sydney Smith (Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh), ‘rigidity is present to a quite definite extent, four or five hours after death; it is usually present in the muscles of the lower jaw in three hours or even earlier’ (p.19). Dr Bond reported that ‘rigor mortis had set in but increased during the process of examination’. Bond arrived at 2 p.m. into a still-warm room (‘the police say that when they entered the room it was quite warm’, The Star, Monday, 12 November 1888). ‘Rigor is delayed by cold, accelerated by heat,’ writes Professor Smith. Thus, extrapolating from Smith would give a probable time for Kelly’s death at between nine and ten o’clock that morning. Forensic Medicine, by Sydney Smith, J. & A. Churchill Limited, London, 1938
22. Addressed to ‘Dear Boss, Lemen [sic] Street Police Station’. In this letter the author again threatens to kill Matthew Packer: ‘I mean to kill Packer, the fruiterer in Berner St, he knows me too well.’
23. ‘Some Medical Observations on the Ripper Case’, by Nick Warren, Ripperana, No. 18, 19 October 1996
24. ‘The Millers Court murder/A disgusting affair/Done by a Polish Knacker rather fair/The Morn (of the murder) I went to the place–/Had a shine but left in haste’. This crass verse was mailed on the eve of the anniversary of the Kelly murder at Miller’s Court, to which it refers. ‘Had a shine’ means to masturbate. Signed J. Ripper, November 8, 1889, addressed to Superintendent of Great Scotland Yard, London.
25. Pall Mall Gazette, 12 November 1888
26. Autumn of Terror, by Tom Cullen, The Bodley Head, London, 1965
27. Ibid. (p.191)
28. Police, by J. Hall Richardson, London, 1889 (p.277)
29. The Globe, Monday, 11 November 1888
30. ‘During the course of last evening Dr. G. B. Phillips visited the House of Commons, where he had a conference with the Under-secretary of the Home Office, Mister Stuart-Wortley.’ Daily Telegraph, 10 October 1888
31. Sir Richard Webster, Hansard, 28 February 1890 (p.1555)
32. Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution, by Stephen Knight, David McKay Company, New York, 1976
33. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History (p.248)
34. Portrait of a Killer, by Patricia Cornwell (p.349)
35. New York Daily Tribune, 10 November 1888
36. New York Daily Tribune, 14 November 1888
37. New York Daily Tribune, 11 November 1888
38. Ibid.
39. New York Times, 14 November 1888
40. New York Daily Tribune, 11 November 1888
41. The World, New York, 10 November 1888
42. New York Herald, 18 July 1888
43. The Referee, 2 December 1888
44. Sugden (p.314)
45. The Ritual of Transcendental Magic, by Eliphas Levi, translated by Arthur Edward Waite, reprinted Bracken Books, London, 1995 (p.334)
46. Morals and Dogma, by Albert Pike (p.321)
47. Scintilla-Altaris, Being a Pious Reflection on Primitive Devotion, by Edward Sparke, Preacher at St. James Clerkenwell, London, 1660 (p.97)
48. ‘The author of Revelation calls himself John the Apostle, and addresses the Seven Churches of Asia; as he was not the Apostle John, who died perhaps in Palestine about [AD] 66, he was a forger.’
‘Since the year 1892, we have been in possession of a large portion of an Apocalypse attributed to St. Peter, discovered in Egypt six years before this date, together with the gospel known as that of St. Peter. It is derived from popular Jewish and Greek sources, and shows striking analogies with the Orphic doctrines. The author was an Egyptian Jew, of Hellenistic tendencies and some erudition. This Apocalypse was probably produced in the same literary factory as the two letters of St. Peter and his Gospel, which are also Greco-Egyptian forgeries.’ Orpheus: A History of Religion, by Salomon Reinach, Horace Liveright, Inc., New York, 1930 (p.261)
49. Revelation, Chapter 17 – Numbers 4 & 16
50. Evening Standard, Saturday, 12 November 1888
51. The Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London, by R. Michael Gordon, McFarland & Co. Inc
., North Carolina and London, 2002 (p.163)
52. Sugden (p.315)
53. ‘Another Look at Mary Kelly’s Heart’, The Criminologist, Winter 1998 (p.245)
54. Concise Bible Commentary, by Lowther Clarke, SPCK, London, 1952 (p.568)
55. Pall Mall Gazette, 4 November 1889
56. The Jack the Ripper A to Z, by Paul Begg, Martin Fido and Keith Skinner (p.214)
57. Autumn of Terror, by Tom Cullen, The Bodley Head, London, 1965 (p.191)
58. The News from Whitechapel, by Alexander Chisholm, Christopher-Michael DiGrazia and Dave Yost (p.195)
59. La Lanterne, Paris, 19 January 1890
60. The News from Whitechapel (p.194)
61. The Times, 13 November 1888
62. Macnaghten (p.62)
63. Tatler, 17 November 1888 (p.195)
64. New York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1888
65. The Star, 19 October 1888
66. ‘Absurdly ineffectual arrests have been made.’ New York Herald, 11 November 1888
67. Sugden (p.322)
68. ‘It is generally agreed that the murderer has no accomplices who could betray him.’ Home Office, 10 September 1888. No. A49301B/
69. The Lighter Side of My Official Life, by Sir Robert Anderson, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1910 (p.136)
Chapter 16: ‘Red Tape’
1. Days of My Years, by Sir Melville Macnaghten (p.61)
2. Death Certificate received from Wynne L. Baxter. Inquest held 26 November 1888. Death Certificate No. W145516 – see The Times, 5 January 1889
3. The Identity of Jack the Ripper, Donald McCormick, Jarrolds, 1959 (p.156) and Unsolved Victorian Murders, by Jonathan Sutherland, Breedon Books, 2002 (p.41)
4. Days of My Years, Macnaghten (p.54)
5. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Third Series, edited by George Earle Buckle, three volumes, Vol. 1 1886/1890, John Murray, London, 1930 (p.449)
6. Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth, by Melvin Harris (p.119)
7. Ibid. (p.120)
8. The Rosicrucians. Their Rites and Mysteries, by Hargrave Jennings, London, 1887
9. Revelations of the Golden Dawn, by R. A. Gilbert, Quantum, London, 1997
10. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol. 100, 1987, published November 1988, article ‘William Wynn Westcott and the Esoteric School of Masonic Research’, by Bro. R. A. Gilbert, 19 February 1987 (p.14)
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