jack the ripper

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Don't know if anyone else had this article show up in their local paper. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/w...ov27,0,3273613.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
The link doesn't have the picture that was in my local paper;but, my local paper is not totally on the internet (mostly local stuff). The picture shows Patricia Cornwell holding a knife available in England when Jack the Ripper was on his rampage. As you may have already guessed it is a khukri. According to her website http://www.patriciacornwell.com/ there is going to be a documentary about her research on her book on the learnining channel on Dec 9 ( don't know if they'll go into any detail about the khukri). Wish I could find the picture.

Anthony Lasome
 
Hi Tony. Used to live on LaPlace in Met. until we moved "across the lake." Used to go to Mr. Joe's deli about a block away. I thought he made the best mufalattas in NO. I miss the food and good times.
 
hi,

I scanned the picture from the article; lets eee how it turned out:


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I thought I would copy this and spare you guys the $28.00 cover price. The khukuri stuff sounds speculative bordering on ranting to me. But, I am not a rippollogist. Your welcome, just send me one of those common victorian khukuries and I'll be happy. :D

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From page 348 of Patricia Cornwell's, Portrait of A Killer

"This would require a sharp strong knife that was not so long as to make the weapon unwieldy. A dissecting knife has a four- to six-inch blade and a handle with a good grip. But, a common killing knife available to the Ripper would have been the kukri, with its unique blade that sweeps into a forward bend. The blade lengths can vary and the knives are sturdy enough for chopping vines, branches, or even small trees. When Queen Victoria was the Empress of India, many British soldiers wore kukries, and the knives would have found their way into the English market.

Jack the Ripper wrote a letter dated October 19th that he 'felt rather down hearted over my knife which I lost comming[sic] here must get one tonight.' Two days later, on the Sunday night of the 21st, a constable discovered a bloody knife in the shrubbery... The knife was a kukri.... The kukri was used in battle to cut throats and sever limbs, but because of its curved blade, it is not a stabbing knife."
 
Sounds kinda thin to me....

One of the tabloid style "news" shows did a segment on this a while back...As far as I could tell there was zero discussion of khuks in that broadcast. But lots of tiny clips of the authoress waving khuks around to fill a little space before comercials, etc.

Dunno if that quote is worth a khuk, I doubt the entire book is.
 
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