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Shirley Harrison. The Diary of Jack the Ripper - The Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PRINCIPAL SOURCES
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOREWORD
PREFACE
PERHAPS IN MY TORMENTED MIND I WISH FOR SOMEONE TO READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND
MICHAEL BARRETT’S STORY
MONTAGUE JOHN DRUITT
KOSMINSKI
MICHAEL OSTROG
THE DUKE OF CLARENCE
DR. FRANCIS TUMBELTY
MY HANDS ARE COLD, MY HEART I DO BELIEVE IS COLDER STILL
A DARK SHADOW LAYS OVER THE HOUSE, IT IS EVIL
THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I FEEL AN OVERWHELMING COMPULSION TO PLACE MY THOUGHTS TO PAPER
TOMORROW I WILL PURCHASE THE FINEST KNIFE MONEY CAN BUY, NOTHING SHALL BE TOO GOOD FOR MY WHORES
I LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW NIGHT’S WORK, IT WILL DO ME GOOD, A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD
THE ENVELOPE
THE RINGS
THE FARTHINGS
TO MY ASTONISHMENT, I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE NOT BEEN CAUGHT
BEFORE I AM FINISHED ALL ENGLAND WILL KNOW THE NAME I HAVE GIVEN MYSELF
GOD PLACED ME HERE TO KILL ALL WHORES
WHEN I HAVE FINISHED MY FIENDISH DEEDS, THE DEVIL HIMSELF WILL PRAISE ME
I DO NOT KNOW IF SHE HAS THE STRENGTH TO KILL ME
I PLACE THIS NOW IN A PLACE WHERE IT SHALL BE FOUND
THE WHORE WILL SUFFER UNLIKE SHE HAS EVER SUFFERED
DR RICHARD HUMPHREYS
DR WILLIAM CARTER
DR ALEXANDER BARRON
DR CHARLES MEYMOTT TIDY
DR CHARLES FULLER
DR RAWDON MACNAMARA
DR FRANK THOMAS PAUL
DR THOMAS STEVENSON
I AM JACK A WATCH IS DISCOVERED
THEY WILL SUFFER JUST AS I. I WILL SEE TO THAT
MY CAMPAIGN IS FAR FROM OVER YET…
THE PAIN IS UNBEARABLE
I AM TIRED OF KEEPING UP THE PRETENCE. ANNE’S STORY
THE MAN I HAVE BECOME WAS NOT THE MAN I WAS BORN
AM I NOT INDEED A CLEVER FELLOW?
THE HANDWRITING
THE ASTROLOGICAL EVIDENCE
THE PSYCHOLOGY
THE LANGUAGE
MAYBRICK’S ADDICTION
SIR JIM WILL GIVE NOTHING AWAY, NOTHING. THE INK
BAXENDALE July/August 1992
EASTAUGH October 1992
IN AMERICA. September/November 1993
BRISTOL UNIVERSITY January 1994
ROD McNEIL October 1993
DIAMINE INK pre 1992
ANALYSIS FOR INDUSTRY October 1994
LEEDS UNIVERSITY November 1994
ALEC VOLLER Bsc October 1995
I PRAY WHOEVER SHOULD READ THIS WILL FIND IT IN THEIR HEART TO FORGIVE ME
A FACSIMILE OF THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER
A TRANSCRIPT OF THE DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER
INDEX
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This book is dedicated to those often-forgotten women of Whitechapel who were savagely butchered in 1888 and whose deaths have been eclipsed since by the mystery of their killer.
Bruce Robinson, Oscar nominee
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Michael Barrett went home to Liverpool. He returned with Caroline, his daughter, on June 3rd to be present at the two-day auction which Doreen Montgomery had decided to hold for the publishing rights to a book about the Diary, which I would write. My colleague, researcher Sally Evemy, took Caroline off for a day’s sightseeing and then Caroline and her father spent the night at my home. Anne was still working and unable to join us. Among the contenders the next day, June 4th, was another Robert Smith, managing director of Smith Gryphon publishers. He had some years earlier published The Ripper Legacy by Martin Howells and Keith Skinner and had invited Keith to accompany him to Doreen’s office.
Robert pored over the Diary for what seemed like hours, saying very little, while Michael told him that all he hoped for was enough money to buy a greenhouse. The bid which Robert eventually made for the Diary was not large — and understandably reflected caution. From a publisher’s point of view it was a dangerous prospect — no one had forgotten the fiasco of the Hitler diaries, which had been published by the Sunday Times in 1982 and then proved to be a forgery within weeks. But Robert Smith, a shrewd businessman and a keen historian himself, had a hunch that the Diary could be genuine, and he decided to back that hunch.
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