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...department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details of sexual mutilation. As was the case with The Anderson Tapes last year, the book is just seedy enough to seem realistic and just brash enough to hold common sense at bay for 200 pages. For most addicts that...
Died. Dr. Thomas Stowell, 85, British physician; of heart disease; in London. Despite a distinguished career, he came to public notice only in the final week of his life, when he published an article implying that Jack the Ripper was actually Edward VII's eldest son, the Duke of Clarence (TIME...
During three autumn months of 1888, five London prostitutes were murdered and all but one horribly disemboweled by perhaps the most famous uncaught murderer of all time, Jack the Ripper. According to an article published this week in The Criminologist, a British professional journal of police science, Jack may have gone uncaught, but his identity was known to Scotland Yard: "He was the heir to power and wealth. His grandmother, who outlived him, was very much the stern Victorian matriarch . . . His father, to whose title he was the heir, was a gay cosmopolitan and did much to improve the status...
...article's author is Thomas Stowell, a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who in his youth studied under Sir William Gull, physician to Queen Victoria. Another of Gull's patients, writes Stowell, was Jack the Ripper. Although Stowell refers to the killer as "S" throughout the article, he drops enough clues to leave little doubt as to the madman's identity...
...occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The young man's evil reputation soon spread. The rumor gained ground that he was Jack the Ripper . . ." Because of his unusually long neck, his father would tell children of the royal family, "Don't call him Uncle Eddy, call him Uncle-Eddy-Collars-and-Cuffs." Until his death at the age of 28 in 1892 from "influenza complicated by pneumonia," he was in the direct line...