Didn’t Jack the Ripper send a letter (letters?) to the press? Just curious, how good was his English? Anyone know? Just piecing together the puzzle.
He could read cursive.
Yes, several. One delivered a kidney and spoke about eating the other one.
Several letters were written by someone purporting to be ‘’Jack The Ripper’’ but most were deemed fakes. I believe one that was addressed ‘’From Hell’’ and supposedly written in blood was felt to be authentic. It contains phrases unique to the type of syntax spoken by the lower class Brits(’’cockneys’’) “I did a proper job killing that one’’ and ‘’my knife is right sharp and I’m keen to set to work right quick, cheerio’’. This letter was also said to have enclosed with it what was determined to be a human liver. If Kominski was clever enough to write a letter taunting the police and including lower class English cockney colloquialisms he’d have been clever indeed.
E-mail... ;-)
For example, if the "From Hell" letter sent to George Lusk, that included a human kidney, is actually real, then we would have to ask if Kosminski had good enough English skills to read and write. To which that answer I am not sure. But then again, not even sure if the letter is real.