Originally Posted by
Jericho
It's purely intuitive (whimsical). The diary sets forth a series of coincidences (regardless of who wrote it) that whet my appetite. The more I think about it, the more I get the feeling that there's more than a little something of the dark and deadly night about Maybrick.
Hi, Jericho
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Well, the Diary makes him look that way. But is it a reflection of the real-life James Maybrick? I am not alone in thinking that the Diary might blacken the name of an innocent man.
Certainly to the extent that he was a man who was an addict addicted to arsenic and strychnine and that he kept a mistress even after he married Florie he seems to have led a double life. I wonder though whether that double life meant he could have been Jack?
I believe Tom Slemen has pointed out that Maybrick was a hypochondriac and may have been repelled by the sight of blood, so I have to wonder as does Tom whether Maybrick had the stomach to do those bloody murders.
All the best
Chris
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