The secrets of Kosminski

It has been 125 years since the Autumn of terror, the year of the Ripper in 1888, a gutn tog! Laugh will you? To burst your little bubble, or should that be your spleen, I am that sordid, depressed little man – you clicked for the murders didn’t you? Fall to dismay as others may have, but who were you really expecting? Did you assume that I would pose more danger to my trouser buttons than to the life of a Whitechapel dollymop? So ask me, dear followers... I know what you’re doing... I know what everyone’s doing, and before my Instinct shall shut me away forever, speak to me of anything and everything – I am bored. I know more than you should think.

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Known to Scotland Yard head officers of CID.

Donald Swanson marginalia, in personal copy of Robert Anderson's book The lighter side of my official life, 1910

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"Be Quiet! Your watch and chain are under the bedstead. I did not mean to do anything. Let me go."

Silly teenaged scavenger thinking he could get away with burglary in my brother's house! A good thing Betsy is as sharp as a nail... or was. Made it into the papers in April 1886 (The Police Illustrated News being one) - Was not there at the time, however.

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...Jill the Ripper - creating a new meaning for the Portuguese maid. Imagine this, oh the jollies. Proposed to the police by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle as a creative answer to the Jack the Ripper crimes. For your information, to even suggest its plausibility is an insult.

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Jack the Ripper is indeed dead.

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HA. HA. HA. Do they think with their twiddle diddles? What a disturbing thought to be at large at 147.

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#21. Town Klodawa. It happened in the town of Klodawa on 17th September, 1865, [Starozakonny] Abram Jozef Kozminski, age 44, tailor, in the presence of witnesses Lajzer Pizeszewski, hawker, age 70 and [Zojki] Skowronski, labourer, age 40, both living in Klodawa, showed us a child, male, from his wife Golda of Lubinowskich, age 44, born here in town Klodawa on 11th current month and year at 10 p.m. who was named (at circumcision) Aron Mordke. This act was read to the father and witnesses and signed by them (signatures)

Oh. How embarrassingly detailed. My birth certificate. Robert House, how did you find this from the Polish archives?