Games United - Whitehall, GU452

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No, that is a fair point. I’m not doubting you in anyway as all the material you have provided has most definitely convinced me he was responsible. I would also be inclined to think he was the culprit for Carrie Brown’s death, even just basing it off approximate times should be more than sufficient. It would be useful to know if Tumblety had hired an attorney while being incarcerated that week (I am almost certain he did) , an attorney who may have relayed messages between Klosowski and himself while he was being kept in jail. (and an attorney could also have persuaded police, or maybe a judge, to see that they had no grounds any longer not to set a bail). And maybe records that show that he did hire a lawyer would still exist….(although records which would show the exact day Tumblety was arrested, and precisely when he was released, seem to have disappeared.) He certainly had the means to hire a good lawyer, of course he did. But I think it is likely that after this night, Klosowski never saw Tumblety again in England, and I also have reason to believe that Tumblety might have skipped bail without having paid Klosowski the money he had offered for the uterus in the first place! The theme may be a bit grizzly, and the developers haven’t shied away from this. The detectives are based on those from the unsolved case and the testimonies from it can be found throughout the rulebook. The board is less bloody than the original so could be seen as more child friendly. I feel diversion had a part in keeping the public from knowing about Klosowski’s motive of doing these murders as a means to procure the uterus of the woman by the fact that he used gashes cut into Ms Eddowes face to divert investigators attention from noticing that the uterus was gone this time also, as it had been taken on Annie Chapman as well. Klosowski can’t have the police link him to that American fellow who was offering the medical schools twenty pounds apiece for uterus’s. If they link him to that its all over for him. Klosowski knew that police might have heard about that, especially since the papers had reported on the fact that Annie Chapmans uterus had been taken. (That report by the newspapers is what had led the medical-school curator to call up Coroner Baxter and tell him about the offer of 20 pounds for uterus that had been offered to him. And indeed, Baxter had alerted Scotland Yard about it, although it appears that Scotland Yard didn’t give the report much credence. At least not until early November, when they arrested Francis Tumblety). Yes,” said Mr. Abberline, “I know all about that story. But what does it amount to? Simply this. Soon after the last murder in Whitechapel the body of a young doctor was found in the Thames, but there is absolutely nothing beyond the fact that he was found at that time to incriminate him. A report was made to the Home Office about the matter, but that it was ‘considered final and conclusive’ is going altogether beyond the truth. Seeing that the same kind of murders began in America afterwards, there is much more reason to think the man emigrated. Then again, the fact that several months after December, 1888, when the student’s body was found, the detectives were told still to hold themselves in readiness for further investigations seems to point to the conclusion that Scotland Yard did not in any way consider the evidence as final.”

October 1888: During the construction of the Metropolitan Police headquarters near Whitehall, which would later be known as Scotland Yard, the remains of a body were found. In September, a severed arm had already been discovered in the muddy shore of the River Thames. Evidence was presented in an inquest on 11 November, held at St Giles Coroner's Court. This concluded that the body parts came from a woman and that they might have been divided by someone who was skilled, but not for the purpose of anatomy.

The only other ‘problem’ these Ripperologists have brought up with the ‘Klosowski theory’ goes something like this: “He would have been a valid suspect, except that there is simply NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE we can find linking Klosowski to the murders”. There is no ‘concrete evidence’ linking ANY of the ‘suspects’ to the Ripper murders!!! Right? But that sure doesn’t stop these two Ripperologists from nominating certain OTHER ‘suspects’ as ‘strong candidates’; suspects who have far less evidence against them than Klosowski does! Some Ripperologist’s entire careers have been built upon the Ripper mystery, do they feel they need to keep it a mystery? Why else are they always so prejudice against Klosowski, who has so much circumstantial evidence pointing squarely at him, while at the same time promote suspects who barely have any? Francis Tumblety, I believe, was the ‘American’ referred to by Coroner Wynn Baxter at Annie Chapman’s inquest; he is the “American agent” who Klosowski was procuring uterus for, as referred to by Inspector Abberline in his 1903 ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ interview. But Tumblety was not the Ripper (as has been suggested in some books recently). Many of those who knew Tumblety said he was a coward. The Ripper was many things, but he was no coward. You can’t be a coward and also calmly dissect women within mere feet and inches of bystanders who are ready and willing to lynch you at the first opportunity, as so many East End Londoner’s were ready, willing, and able to do to the Ripper. There are many other reasons to suggest that Tumblety was not the Ripper, and I have stated the most obvious reasons previously already. Tumblety knew Klosowski was the Ripper I believe, he was a big reason Klosowski WAS the Ripper, and he continued to exert influence over Klosowski during the entire murder spree. I also believe that the reason Klosowski went to New York at the beginning of the 1890s was to meet up with Tumblety again. But Klosowski was the actual Ripper, the man getting the disgusting work done. Tumblety was the man who gave the Ripper his commission, as stated by Abberline in 1903. ( I have no idea if Abberline suspected Tumblety of being the “American” who wanted the uterus’s, we will never know about that for certain, but he certainly believed Klosowski was the Ripper.) Scotland Yard is built on a crime scene related to an unsolved murder - the Whitehall Mystery". The Vintage News. 29 October 2016 . Retrieved 12 August 2018.

Think about it, what other means could The Ripper have used to try to obscure his motive? He is doing exactly what you might expect him to do in such circumstance. Other than making it appear that robbery were the motive, or making it appear to be the work of a sexual lunatic, or by making police investigators look in a different direction from the missing uterus(at those facial cuts), what could you think of doing to divert attention from the fact that the uterus is missing? He is a manipulator. He was also attempting to manipulate the police when he exonerated Tumblety, who was sitting in jail the night when he (Klosowski) killed Mary Kelley, and also when he killed Carrie Brown in New York he was manipulating Tumblety into becoming extremely frightened so that he would pay the money he owed. It happens in example after example. Whitehall’s map – and board – is pared down a little from Whitechapel, resulting in not only a faster pace better befitting of a breathless chase through the streets of Victorian London but a more claustrophobic and close-call tension from the off. And the only reason there is no concrete evidence against Klosowski is because he was extremely cunning, and had repeatedly eluded detection. You can’t find “concrete evidence” retroactively; you can only find ‘circumstantial evidence’ for a crime as old as this one. Concrete evidence needed to be found in 1888. Abberline might have had a shot at finding it in 1903, after learning of Klosowski’s newest murders, but after Klosowski was hanged it seems police just dropped it for the time being; they felt it was over.)This sort of game has a well established history: Ravensburg’s Scotland Yard shares plenty of similarities, as does Fury of Dracula. Letters From Whitechapel is most directly comparable, given it’s by the same designers and also published by Fantasy Flight. So how does Whitehall Mystery play and why should you think about buying it as opposed to the alternatives? Gameplay By the way, and I don’t like to speak of it because I am afraid that people will accuse me of getting totally carried away with Klosowski’s guilt, but I also believe that Klosowski was responsible for the “Thames Torso Killings” that began the month after he 1st arrived in England from Poland. (5 female victims over a period of 14 years, the bodies having been surgically dissected and dumped in the River Thames ). I mean, if he was, he is still far behind the murder total of Ted Bundy in 20th century United States, so its not all that unbelievable. And I am not alone in believing this about him. But even if he is not, his known crimes are so reprehensible that it is not going to hurt his feelings too much if I were wrong about this accusation. But again, the timing is just too ‘coincidental’ for my believing it was not him, and it’s just too much for me to believe that there just happened to be another similar serial killer working the same area at the same time, stopping right when Klosowski is executed. Klosowski lived in London from 1887 till his execution in 1903, and just look at all the ghastly murder that was going down in East London at that time, starting up his 1st year there and ending right before he was eradicated. Serial killing is not some contagious disease. And a ‘copycat killer’ could not have simply ‘copied’ Klosovski’s ability to slyly evade capture also, or his animal-like cunning. No one has ever been held responsible for any of the murders that happened during this time in East London. With all of the police manpower that was being used on these killings, it seems almost impossible that someone else could get away with this also, at the same time; let alone someone who would resort to being a copycat. A copycat by definition is not very imaginative or clever, which is why he needs to copy what other people do. Right? Besides, the ‘Torso Killings’ began 1st, so it would have been the Ripper himself who was the copycat.) These two mysteries still remain unsolved. [30] Le mystere de Montrouge and Lambeth Mystery [ edit ]

Whitehall Mystery is hidden movement at its best: a thrilling high-stakes race between hunters and hunted that never pauses for breath. The only other ‘problem’ these Ripperologists have brought up with the ‘Klosowski theory’ goes something like this: “He would have been a valid suspect, except that there is simply NO CONCRETE EVIDENCE we can find linking Klosowski to the murders”. There is no ‘concrete evidence’ linking ANY of the ‘suspects’ to the Ripper murders!!! Right? But that sure doesn’t stop these two Ripperologists from nominating certain OTHER ‘suspects’ as ‘strong candidates’; suspects who have far less evidence against them than Klosowski does! Some Ripperologist’s entire careers have been built upon the Ripper mystery, do they feel they need to keep it a mystery? Why else are they always so prejudice against Klosowski, who has so much circumstantial evidence pointing squarely at him, while at the same time promote suspects who barely have any? (And the only reason there is no concrete evidence against Klosowski is because he was extremely cunning, and had repeatedly eluded detection. You can’t find “concrete evidence” retroactively; you can only find ‘circumstantial evidence’ for a crime as old as this one. Concrete evidence needed to be found in 1888. Abberline might have had a shot at finding it in 1903, after learning of Klosowski’s newest murders, but after Klosowski was hanged it seems police just dropped it for the time being; they felt it was over.) I have even wondered if Tumblety (who was reportedly lodging just around the corner from Berner St ; on Batty St.), was that 2nd man who was with the Ripper, seen by Israel Schwartz on Berner Street the night Liz Stride was killed there. Same height; 5’11”. (“LIPSKI!”) Only Kate Eddowes and Mary Kelly were left with mutilated faces. Only Annie Chapman and Kate Eddowes had their uteruses taken away. I fail to see the unmistakable pattern pointing only to Chapman. And while Abberline did indeed consider him the Ripper. Many other contemporary police officials held many other opinions. You may be right. You may be far afield. The debate goes on. And—if the murders were carried out by a single person—their reign of terror may have lasted much, much longer than a single autumn. From 1873 through 1889, a series of 6 torsos were found in the greater London area. Only one was ever identified. The Thames Mysteries of 1873 and 1874

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The following year, another woman's remains were found, missing a head, hands, and feet. She also was unable to be identified. Additionally, while the cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head for the 1873 victim, investigators were not even able to determine a cause of death for this victim. When a representative of the Pall Mall Gazette called on Mr. Abberline yesterday and asked for his views on the startling theory set up by one of the morning papers, the retired detective said: “What an extra- ordinary thing it is that you should just have called upon me now. I had just commenced, not knowing anything about the report in the newspaper, to write to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Macnaghten, to say how strongly I was impressed with the opinion that ‘Chapman’ was also the author of the Whitechapel murders. Your appearance saves me the trouble. I intended to write on Friday, but a fall in the garden, injuring my hand and shoulder, prevented my doing so until today.”