Jack The Ripper and The Servant Girl Annihilator?

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Noble
Was The Malay cook suspect or Michael Maybrick Both Jack The Ripper and The Servant Girl Annihilator?
Hi guys, just thought i'd start a thread for anyone interested in something that I only just found out about today .. completely by accident.
It concerns , a serious case of Jack The Ripper type serial killings in the city of Austin, Texas between 1884 and 1885 which were three years prior to the canonical five victims attributed to The Ripper. ... And the possible connections between the two savage events are staggeringly mind-blowing, ... if real?
... First here is the story of 'The Servant Girl Annihilator' [aka, The Austin Axe Murderer] .... Servant Girl Annihilator - Wikipedia
... and here is what it says about the possible connection to the Whitechapel murders in the 'Jack The Ripper' casebook ...
Alaska
A sailor named George M. Dodge, told the story of how on 13 August, after arriving in London from China aboard the steamship Glenorchy, he met a Malay cook named Alaska, at Queens music hall Poplar. The Malay told him a tale of how he had been robbed of all his money by a woman of the town, and said that unless he found the woman he would kill and mutilate every woman in Whitechapel that he met. The Malay was described as 5ft 7" tall, 35 years of age and weighed about 10-11 stone. Dodge claimed that the Malay lived in a street near the East India Dock Road, though would not reveal exactly where until he had checked if there was a reward offered. Detectives were sent to make inquiries at the Glen Line steamship company, though could find no trace of the man.
Mr Wood, the manager of the Queen's music hall, where Dodge claimed to have met Alaska, said that he had heard nothing of the alleged robbery of the Malay. Axel Welin, secretary of the Scandinavian sailors temperance house, West India Docks, which was extremely popular with foreign sailors, scanned the books, but could find no trace of Dodge, nor the Malay. Mr Freeman, the manager and superintendent of the Asiatic home, said that he had been at the home for thirty years and had never heard of a Malay named Alaska. The newspapers appeared to be of the opinion that the story was nothing more than a sailors yarn.
Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper: A Suspect Guide - Alaska
... "nothing more than a sailors yarn." ? ... well maybe,.. but isn't that a bit too coincidental? ... and then, there seems to be a good case for Nathan Elgin being the Austin culprit too! ... so who knows? ... for sure all that I can say is that I for one find it a fascinating prospect... how about you?

There has been so many different theories about the identity of Jack The Ripper over the years than I can count, each one with certain degrees of validity and all makes this gruesome Victorian Mystery a complete headache that I suspect that we'll really never truly know the correct answers to either of these puzzles ... and in fact, I still haven't got past the 'Bruce Robinson' convincing theory that the Ripper was in actual fact the ripper diary suspect 'James Maybrick's' brother Michael ...
Michael-Maybrick-1-GQ-5oct15_b.jpg
.. in his exhaustive book "They All Love Jack: Busting The Ripper" ... in which coincidentally also hints at a trans-atlantic crossover spree of slaughterings by this 'little charmer'!
How one man revealed Jack the Ripper's identity: the full story

Well, .. what do you guys think.. connection or not?

Cheers.
 
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