DR. ROBERT ANDERSON
Proposed as a suspect by Stephen Knight in the 1976 book – Jack the Ripper The Final Solution, and as a co-conspirator by Melvyn Fairclough in the 1991 book – The Ripper and the Royals.
Dr. (later Sir) Robert Anderson was born in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, Ireland 29 May 1841. The son of Crown Solicitor, Matthew Anderson. Brought up in a devout Christian home. Educated privately in Dublin, Boulogne and Paris. On leaving school, Anderson began a business apprenticeship in a large brewery, but having decided not to go into business, left after 18 months. He studied in Boulogne-sur -Mer and Paris, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1862. The following year he was called to the Irish Bar.
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And if the Police here had powers such as the French Police possess, the murderer would have been brought to justice. Scotland Yard can boast that not even the subordinate officers of the department will tell tales out of school, and it would ill become me to violate the unwritten rule of the service. So I will only add here that the "Jack the
Ripper” letter which is preserved in the Police Museum at
New Scotland Yard is the creation of an enterprising London journalist. Having regard to the interest attaching to this case, I am almost tempted to disclose the identity of the murderer and of the pressman who wrote the letter above referred to. But no public benefit would result from such a course and the traditions of my old department would suffer. I will merely add that the only person who had ever had a good view of the murderer unhesitatingly identified the suspect the instant he was confronted with him, but he refused to give evidence against him.
In saying that he was a Polish Jew, I am merely stating a definitely ascertained fact. And my words are meant to specify race, not religion. For it would outrage all religious sentiment to talk of the religion of a loathsome creature whose
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Between the years 1914-16 he held the office of Personal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, he also wrote a number of military biographies on Kitchener Wolseley and Haig, and died at the age of 85 on 14 January 1946. At the time of the Whitechapel murders he was a 28 year old captain in the Royal Horse Guard, and also an amateur actor, appearing as the corpse when Bancroft produced Theodora. He liked to engage in what was then a favourite and fashionable pastime of the wealthy Victorian; he liked to slum it in the poor areas. Arthur unfortunately chose Whitechapel at the time of the Ripper murders and thus became a suspect. Dressed in an old shooting coat and slouch hat he was spotted by two alert Constables approaching a well-known prostitute. Fitting the popular description of Jack the Ripper, he was arrested; much to the amusement of the newspapers and his friends. He was soon able to satisfactorily prove his
Although Arthur Conan Doyle was raised in an ordinary Roman Catholic family, he turned out to be a well-known spiritualist who encouraged others to communicate with the dead. On May 22, 1859, an Irish infant was born into a Roman Catholic family. Arthur Conan Doyle was the second oldest of ten siblings. Arthur’s father, Charles Doyle, came from a wealthy family. He came from a family of artists. He himself was successful in his younger years but afterwards he went broke because his art works were not so popular anymore. The family came into a time of crisis as Charles started to drink. Arthur became hurt through Charles’s attitude yet remained proud of him; in A Study in Scarlet Arthur used his father’s painting as an illustration. "My father's life was full of the tragedy of unfulfilled powers and of underdeveloped gifts. He had his weaknesses, as all of us have ours, but he also had some very remarkable and outstanding virtues"(The Chronicles). Arthur found comfort in his mother. He gave credit to her as an inspiration t...
Simmons, Charles James (1893-1875), politician and evangelical preacher, was born on 9 April 1893 at 30 Brighton Road, Mosley, Birmingham. His father, James Henry Simmons (1867-1941), was a master painter and his mother, Mary Jane (1872-1958), a schoolteacher. They were Primitive Methodists, temperance advocates, and Liberals. His maternal grandfather, Charles Henry Russell (1846-1918), a Liberal, Primitive Methodist lay preacher and friend of Joseph Arch (leader of the Agricultural Labourers’ Union and MP), shared the family home. Simmons described him as ‘the greatest influence during my formative years’, the well-spring of the religious and political activism that was to characterize his career (Simmons, 6). Educated at Board schools, Simmons left formal education at the age of fourteen for employment in an assortment of jobs, including a tailor’s porter, telegraph messenger and salesman.
Jack Laidlaw is a universe apart from other examples of detectives, he examines the more intriguing issues of how and why people can commit the reprehensible crime of murder and the harrowing aftermath of crime and violence. Jack Laidlaw can deeply understand people more than anyone could ever imagine. Jack Laidlaw is an odd sort of detective, and this is an odd sort of novel. He lives and works in the gloomy, cheerless heart of urban Glasgow; and he keeps the works of "Camus"," Unamuno" and "Kierkegaard"in his top desk drawer, "where other detectives would normally rather keep their secret stashes of liquor." Unlike many other detectives with uppity tastes in literature, no one congratulates him for this or encourages him in any way; the whole world tells him that However, he persists in trying to understand crimes as well as solve them: “You want to live as if the rest of the world was just a necessary evil and that you have to be a monster to be a criminal,it's not true, it's all in peoples concealed heads. That may be a nuisance to you.
Jack Merridew is the devil-like figure in the story, Lord of the Flies. Jack is wicked in nature having no feelings for any living creature. His appearance and behavior intimidates the others from their first encounter. The leading savage, Jack leans more towards hunting and killing and is the main reason behind the splitting of the boys. It has been said that Jack represents the evilness of human nature; but in the end, Jack is almost a hero. With his totalitarian leadership, he was able to organize the group of boys into a useful and productive society
From 1888-1891 a portion of London England known as Whitechapel was terrorized by a rash of murders. In total eleven women were murdered, five of those are thought to be the victim of one of the most well-known serial killers whom was never identified, Jack the Ripper. Out of the murders committed in the two year period, the five had like backgrounds, they lived in boarding houses and were prostitutes, alcoholics, or both. The women were found with their bodies lying on their backs with the legs spread apart. The victims were also found to have been murdered in like fashion with their throats had been slit and their bodies mutilated. This gave Jack the Ripper a specific modus operandi narrowing down the field of likely victims from the original total. Those five murders also took place in a time span of ten months.
In 1798, his grandfather died, which gave him his title and his estate. He later attended Trinity College at Cambridge University and earned his master’s degree in July of 1808 (“Lord”). Aside from his schooling he was an excellent marksman, horseman, and swimmer (Gurney 72). Many thought he was “mad- bad- and dangerous to know” (Napierkowski 38). His personality was very out of the realm of normal for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in which he lived. He isolated himself from others’ opinions about his cruel, sexual eccentric...
Carr, J. D. (2003). The life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2nd Carroll & Graf trade pbk. ed.). New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf.
so that this informs us that the killer may not have had a motive, but
Irish American Magazine, Aug.-Sept. 2009. Web. The Web. The Web. 06 May 2014.
Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to recent Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents returned to Ireland because of poor prospects in America. Due to the Great Depression, Malachy could not find work in America. However, things did not get any better back in Ireland for Malachy. A chronically unemployed and nearly unemployable alcoholic, he appears to be the model on which many of our more insulting cliches about drunken Irish manhood are based. Week after week, Angela would be home expecting her husband to come home with money to eat, but Malachy always spent his wages on pints at local pubs. Frank’s father would come home late at night and make his sons get out of bed and sing patriotic songs about Ireland by Roddy McCorley and Kevin Barry, who were hung for their country. Frank loved his father and got an empty feeling in his heart when he knew his father was out of work again. Frank described his father as the Holy Trinity because there is three people in him, “The one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland” (McCourt 210). Even when there was a war going on and English agents were recruiting Irishmen to work in their munitions factories, Malachy could not keep a job when he traveled to England.
The use of manipulation on others causes superiority and inferiority, which leads to a downfall in a society. William Golding wrote the novel, The Lord of the Flies (1954), in which he uses the protagonist, Jack Merridew, to demonstrate dictator-like characteristics. In comparison to today’s society, the leader of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2012, Meles Zenawi, has characteristics that mirror Jack’s leadership qualities. Both Jack Merridew and Meles Zenawi share characteristics that lean towards them both being dictators, which include: dominance, the torturing of others, and intimidation.
Jack the Ripper murdered five women between the time of 31st of August 1888 and the 9th of November 1888. They were murdered within Whitechapel and Spitalfields in the East End areas of London, England. He was never caught, and because he was not there are hundreds on his personality and motives. There has been no other killers in the British history that rivaled the gruesome, disrespectful, utterly superior Jack the Ripper, a multiple murderer whose arrogance and self-assurance defied the entire police department within London and held in a great terror in a great city for as long as he cared to roam its streets and slay at will.
Murphy, B. Keith. "L. Frank Baum." Great Lives from History: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Powell John. 4 vols. Salem Press, 2007. Salem History Web. 7 Dec. 2013.
Watson’s negative attitude towards education did not last forever and it changed after he was accepted to Furman University where he began his training at the age of sixteen in 1894. John’s life started to turn around with his enrollment and the help of his professor Gordon Moore. He later developed a positive attitude towards academic work since he realized that he could at least now contribute to the community regardless of the social class of his family. His academic performance was quite brilliant and he graduated from Furman University with a master’s degree in 1899. He later enrolled at...
McCann et al. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1994, 95-109).