Maybrick Diary Revelations?
Hi all
An Australian named Steve Powell has appeared on the "Casebook: Jack the Ripper" message boards posting in a thread he has entitled "On The Trail Of The Forgers" alleging that the Maybrick Diary that surfaced in Liverpool in 1992 and that was subsequently published in facsimile and transcript form in 1993 by Hyperion in a book entitled, The Diary of Jack the Ripper by Shirley Harrison, was a hoax cooked up in Australia. Powell had appeared on the same "Casebook" message boards back in 2000, when he had told part of the story. Now he has reappeared with further details of and information about the scheme.
As many of you may know, the Maybrick Diary was brought forward by Mike Barrett, formerly a scrap metal dealer and taken in 1992 to London literary agent Doreen Montgomery. The story was that Barrett had received the Diary from Tony Devereux, a former compositor at the Echo, a friend he knew from drinking with him at the Saddle Inn in Anfield. Devereux subsequently died before he could give a full explanation of where the Diary had come from. More recently, Mike Barrett's wife Anne, who now goes under her maiden name of Anne Graham, said the Diary was in her family for years and that she gave it to the out-of-work Mike Barrett to apparently give him the impetus to write (he was a free-lance journalist).
Mr Powell alleges that while Anne Graham was in Australia around 1970, where she trained and worked as a nurse, she was involved in the forging of the Diary with a transplanted Englishman named Steve Park, born in Lancaster, England, in 1952, who is now a permanent resident of Australia and who lived in Cronulla, Sydney at the time that the Diary forgery was begun.
Chris George
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Hi all
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Chris George