Talk:The Masonic Plot

Wonder if anybody here is a Ripperologist? Zahir 10:25, 28 December 2005 (PST)

This article is also up for being De-proposalized. Anyone want to make any comments, additions, changes, etc.? Zahir 09:00, 7 February 2006 (PST)

How does this relate here? What are the changes, *here* to *there*? BoArthur 09:30, 7 February 2006 (PST)

Well, to begin with, Prince Albert was not assassinated. He died of fever years and years earlier (circa 1860 I believe). All these individuals are versions of different "candidates" for Jack the Ripper--Montague Druitt (unstable young man who committed suicide in 1888), Sir William Gull (physician to the royal family), Dr. Neal Cream (who was indeed hanged for poisoning his wives), Dr. Frances Tumbley (a very weird man indeed, who kept women's genetalia in jars in his office), and James Maybrick (the supposed author of the forged "Jack the Ripper Diary" but a real enough historical figure). The "Masonic Plot" is the catch-all phrase *here* for what is dramatically the most popular (and historically the most absurd) conspiracy theory regarding the Whitechapel Murders (i.e. Jack the Ripper) of 1888. It was the centerpiece of a fun movie called From Hell starring Johnny Depp and Ian Holm. But the idea of the trial which grabbed this group and condemned them to hang was suggested by what happened to John Wilkes Booth's associates *here* in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Zahir 09:49, 7 February 2006 (PST)