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The Tottenham Court Road Mystery was reported by The Times on 24 October 1884, relating to the discovery of parts of a woman's body: And you did right, my friend. Be true to yourself and what you believe. What I have written is mostly fiction based on facts. The beauty of fiction writing is that you can embellish the truth to suit your own ends. What you have done is to present the facts as they are. Well done to you.

Yet even today, ‘Ripperologists’ (eg.Fido) downplay the ‘Chapman theory’, and they use the weakest of logic to make their argument, in the face of, by far, the strongest evidence that has ever been compiled about any other Ripper suspect! And they keep offering up the most unlikely suspects imaginable (Kosminski, Gull, Druitt, etc), while rolling their eyes in condescending derision when you mention Klosowski. It is bizarre! Whitehall Mystery Board Game". 365games.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 October 2019 . Retrieved 19 October 2019. On 5 September 1873, the left quarter of a woman's trunk was discovered by a Thames Police patrol near Battersea. Subsequently, a right breast was found at Nine Elms, a head at Limehouse, a left forearm at Battersea, a pelvis at Woolwich, until an almost complete body of a dismembered woman had been found. The nose and the chin had been cut from the face, and the head had been scalped. And—if the murders were carried out by a single person—their reign of terror may have lasted much, much longer than a single autumn. From 1873 through 1889, a series of 6 torsos were found in the greater London area. Only one was ever identified. The Thames Mysteries of 1873 and 1874

Setting up the Game

And the only reason there is no concrete evidence against Klosowski is because he was extremely cunning, and had repeatedly eluded detection. You can’t find “concrete evidence” retroactively; you can only find ‘circumstantial evidence’ for a crime as old as this one. Concrete evidence needed to be found in 1888. Abberline might have had a shot at finding it in 1903, after learning of Klosowski’s newest murders, but after Klosowski was hanged it seems police just dropped it for the time being; they felt it was over.) And it was Abberline’s opinion that Klosowski was the Ripper! There is ZERO evidence that his opinion ever changed. The investigation concluded that the body had not been dissected for medical purpose, but that a degree of medical knowledge had been necessary to perform the dissection. Because the doctors could not state a cause of death, the jury was forced to return a verdict of "Found Dead". Yet even today, ‘Ripperologists’ (eg.Fido) continue to downplay the ‘Chapman theory’, and they use the weakest of logic to make their argument, in the face of, by far, the strongest evidence that has ever been compiled about any other Ripper suspect! And they keep offering up the most unlikely suspects imaginable, while rolling their eyes in condescending derision when you mention Klosowski. It is bizarre! Yes,” said Mr. Abberline, “I know all about that story. But what does it amount to? Simply this. Soon after the last murder in Whitechapel the body of a young doctor was found in the Thames, but there is absolutely nothing beyond the fact that he was found at that time to incriminate him. A report was made to the Home Office about the matter, but that it was ‘considered final and conclusive’ is going altogether beyond the truth. Seeing that the same kind of murders began in America afterwards, there is much more reason to think the man emigrated. Then again, the fact that several months after December, 1888, when the student’s body was found, the detectives were told still to hold themselves in readiness for further investigations seems to point to the conclusion that Scotland Yard did not in any way consider the evidence as final.”

Fantasy Flight Games is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Whitehall Mystery, the newest addition to the Letters from Whitechapel series. The hunt for history’s most notorious serial killer continues in this streamlined standalone adventure that explores one of London’s most intriguing unsolved cases. An Impossible Task You can state most emphatically,” said Mr. Abberline, “that Scotland Yard is really no wiser on the subject than it was fifteen years ago. It is simple nonsense to talk of the police having proof that the man is dead. I am, and always have been, in the closest touch with Scotland Yard, and it would have been next to impossible for me not to have known all about it. Besides, the authorities would have been only too glad to make an end of such a mystery, if only for their own credit.” Think about it, what other means could The Ripper have used to try to obscure his motive? He is doing exactly what you might expect him to do in such circumstance. Other than making it appear that robbery were the motive, or making it appear to be the work of a sexual lunatic, or by making police investigators look in a different direction from the missing uterus(at those facial cuts), what could you think of doing to divert attention from the fact that the uterus is missing? He is a manipulator. He was also attempting to manipulate the police when he exonerated Tumblety, who was sitting in jail the night when he (Klosowski) killed Mary Kelley, and also when he killed Carrie Brown in New York he was manipulating Tumblety into becoming extremely frightened so that he would pay the money he owed. It happens in example after example.Now that the Ripper has emerged, the race is on to capture him before he disappears again, possibly forever. Investigators cannot let this opportunity slip through their grasp. Isn’t it likely that the knowledge of this demand might have incited some ‘abandoned wretch’ to possess himself of a specimen?”… There is another murderer roaming the streets of London in Whitehall, amusing himself by spreading the pieces of a poor woman around Whitehall, like some kind of macabre treasure hunt. The identity of this monster and his unfortunate victim are a mystery, the Whitehall Mystery."

Yesterday [26 Sep] afternoon Mr. Wynne Baxter, coroner for East Middlesex, concluded his inquiry, at the Whitechapel Working Lads’ Institute, relative to the death of Mrs. Annie Chapman, whose body was found dreadfully cut and mutilated in the yard of 29, Hanbury-street, Whitechapel, early on the morning of Saturday, the 8th inst. Under the leadership of the Acting Chief Surgeon, Metropolitan Police, Thomas Bond, the corpse was reconstructed. The attempts to identify the remains were disturbed by the curiosity of the public, and the police first showed a photograph to any potential witness. Excellent reading. A lot of research obviously went into it. You may like to have a read of my “Whitechapel Nights”, available on Kindle for 99p. All the actual ‘Ripper’ murders are factually correct, taken from witness statements, police records and coroner’s reports. Chapters in between concern an ordinary, Victorian middle-aged couple. However, there is a link. The book contains several twists and offers an explanation to the ending of the murders in Whitechapel. Would like to hear your views. At that point, Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols and Annie Chapman had already been murdered on August 31th and September 8th respectively. The “Dear Boss” letter would not be received by the Central News Agency until September 27, three days before the night of the Double Event, and true Ripper hysteria had not reached fever pitch.

The Hunt Is On

When a representative of the Pall Mall Gazette called on Mr. Abberline yesterday and asked for his views on the startling theory set up by one of the morning papers, the retired detective said: “What an extra- ordinary thing it is that you should just have called upon me now. I had just commenced, not knowing anything about the report in the newspaper, to write to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Macnaghten, to say how strongly I was impressed with the opinion that ‘Chapman’ was also the author of the Whitechapel murders. Your appearance saves me the trouble. I intended to write on Friday, but a fall in the garden, injuring my hand and shoulder, prevented my doing so until today.”

No more murders happen the month following the ‘double event’ (none in October), or during the first week of November either. It would seem that either Tumblety had been supplied with all the uteri he had wanted, or the Ripper felt the ‘heat’ had gotten too intense for him to go on in this manner any longer. But this was by far the longest break in the murders, and I believe that as far as Klosowski and Tumblety were concerned, the hunt for uterus was over and done with at that point. Report to the Home Office by Monro, 11 September 1889, HO 144/221/A49301K ff. 1–8, quoted in Evans and Rumbelow, p. 213 and Evans and Skinner (2000), pp. 492–494 If Tumblety were the suspicious type, he might have reason to believe, as he was financing his own bail, that it was likely Klosowski’s plan to kill him after arranging his release. Human life doesn’t seem to mean much to Klosowski, right? It would have been one sure-fire way for Klosowski to make certain that Tumblety would never ‘spill the beans’ about him. Maybe it was not only the British justice system that Tumblety was fleeing when he skipped out to New York after having been released by the British authorities, maybe he was skipping out on his partner also; maybe skipping out on his very ‘boyfriend’! But then, who could blame him if he did, right? In my estimation, it would have shown a degree of intelligence on his part. And who could blame him also for having spent the remainder of his days, as he did, in hiding? (My reasons for possibly believing this last bit here are Klosowski’s reported actions, two years later, after having followed Tumblety to America, and his changing his name after returning; and his insistance, for the remainder of his life, that he was not then, or never had been, Severin Klosowski – see message 54, above) In November of 1888, Tumblety had been arrested in connection with the Whitechapel murders. The exact, precise date of his arrest is unclear, but it was earlier the same week as the murder of Marie Kelly on Dorset Street. (The final ‘official’ Ripper murder) Remember, it has been put forward that Severin Klosowski was committing these murders to obtain uterus for Tumblety, and that Tumblety had been ‘the American’ that coroner Baxter was referring to, during the inquest of Annie Chapman.

I have updated and edited this piece into a fuller book. Here are some of the changes from the introduction above: After it had been printed in the 1888 newspapers that the uterus of Annie Chapman had been so expertly removed and taken, the coroner reported that he had: The former allows them 0-1 spaces while the latter up to 3. But if they move noisily and pass adjacent to a German in any part of that move, they need to tell the hunter they have heard something, but no more. Once the sniper has moved the Germans have a choice of actions to take which include moving, re-deploying, spawning and a range of different search actions.