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COULD LEWIS CARROLL HAVE BEEN JACK THE RIPPER? - Cheshire born Alice in
Wonderland author, Lewis Carroll, may have been Jack the Ripper! The
astonishing claim is made in a new book on the unsolved Victorian
murders of five prostitutes in London's East End. Carroll, who in real
life was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a maths don at Christ Church, Oxford,
emerges as the prime suspect in the book, Jack the Ripper: Lighthearted
Friend, by Richard Wallace. Dr Wallace claims Carroll had a psychotic
breakdown after being assaulted by a homosexual when he was 12 and
became an angry man. 'He retreated into a world consumed by one goal -
revenge on society.' Dr Wallace claims Carroll wrote a diary every day
in purple ink, but on the days of the Whitechapel killings, he switched
to black. 'Quite simply, Carroll was a psychopathic killer.' Dr Wallace
argues that Carroll gave a clue to his crimes in the poem Jabberwocky
written in 1872 - 16 years before the murders. One verse reads: 'The
vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head; He
went galumphing back.' Dr Wallace says this could refer to Anne Chapman,
the Ripper's third victim, whose head was almost severed. In another p
oem, The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll wrote: 'They sought it with
thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and with
hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it
with smiles and soap.' Dr Wallace says all the dead girls had thimbles,
forks and soap in their pockets when they died and there were no alibis
for Carroll on the nights the Ripper struck. Other Ripper suspects have
included Royal physician Sir William Gull, Liverpool cotton merchant
James Maybrick, escaped Broadmoor prisoner James Kelly, East End wife
killer William Bury, and quack doctor Francis Tumblety.
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Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Polo Grounds, New York in the shadow of Coogan's
Bluff , April 5, 1998
Interesting reading for a book with an impossible solution
As the heading says, this is interesting reading for a book with an
impossible solution to the Ripper mystery. It IS impossible, isn't it,
that Lewis Carroll, the children's author beloved on both sides of the
Atlantic, was the fiend who murdered an undetermined number of
prostitutes in Victorian England? The author, Richard Wallace, had
already written a book describing a darker side of Carroll's psyche, but
in this one, he falls far short of his goal of placing Carroll at the
top of the suspect list. And frankly, Wallace betrays an overeagerness
to find out what he purports to have found out in order to provide an
appropriate follow-up to his first book. His "evidence" consists largely
of reworking of Carroll pieces into Ripper-confessional anagrams and a
reworking of possible Ripper communiques into anagrams pointing to
Carroll. In a burst of enthusiasm, he even finds a precursor anagram in
"The Jabberwocky", which was written many years BEFORE the Whitechapel
kilings. But anagrams are the most oft-abused literary detective tools
available, as anyone knows who has considered the "Shakespeare"
question, and Wallace is not the first one to use them to find a Ripper
solution. Others have found anagrammatic messages pointing to other
suspects. 26 letters in the English alphabet circulating through a
large-enough message can be twisted to create a lot of mischief. But
there are entries in the book that make it worthwhile reading anyway. I
don't think that anyone else has noticed, for example, that the "Eight
Little Whores" poem attributed to the Ripper bears a strong thematic and
rhythmic resemblance to a little-known Carroll poem called "Five Little
Girls". This is hardly proof that Carroll was the Ripper. It suggests,
at most, that the Ripper might have read the Carroll poem -- which is
interesting in itself and adds another dimension to what is believed to
be known about the Ripper. The book is filled with nuggets like that,
which make it interesting and perhaps productive reading, despite its
impossible (isn't it?) solution.
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