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Moonhead -> RE: Taxpayer Tribute to Queen Announced (7/7/2010 3:54:08 PM)
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So's James Kelly, come to that.
Harsh considering the polis went looking for him after the last murder.....but he'd done one....to France.
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Though on that level, a case can be made for Montague Druitt as well. The terrible thing that happened to Mary Kelly came before the bloke drowned himself, after all, and he clearly had no use for women.
Poor Monty? The cricker playing barrister? The bloke was playing cricket in Blackheath on the morning following the Kelly murder......so he would have had to have gone some to have made his way back to that part of London and turned out for a spell in the slips as if there was nothing wrong in the world. There is absolutely nothing placing Monty anywhere near the murders....he was named only by MacNaughten.....who wrongly claimed he was a doctor....and called him Doctor D.....with some claiming he was actually talking about an American quack named Francis Tumblety....an interesting character of Irish descent if memory serves....known to house a large collection or organs and was in London at the time....by his own admission....and was bailed for 'gross indecency'........read frequenting male brothels...before skipping bail and fleeing to the US.....where Scotland Yard followed him and tried to track him down....the fact he was gay suggests it wasn't him.....although he's supposed to be the 'Batty Street Lodger' who left bloodied shirts before he fled.....and he was tall....whereas witness statements suggest short and stout....Druitt was too tall too.....
All very true, but he's still a lot more likely than Walter Sickert, though.
And he was batting, not fielding, so that doesn't completely rule it out.
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