The Robert D’Onston Stephenson Story

In reality, Robert Stephenson was no more a suspect in the Whitechapel Murders than Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.

Yet, hundreds of thousands of words have been written in support of Stephenson as a suspect, primarily by Melvin Harris, Bernard O’Donnell and lately, Ivor Edwards.

Stephenson’s whereabouts during the time of the Whitechapel Murders was within the confines of the London Hospital as most are aware of. He was, according to the stellar efforts of Spiro Dimolianis ( Australia) and Mike Covell (England ) not only in a hospital ward where he could not come and go as he pleased ( The Currie Ward ), but the authors of the two books promoting Stephenson as a suspect knew this long ago.

Why they omitted the mention of the Currie Ward in their works and leave the impression that Stephenson was only in the Davis Ward is anyone’s guess.

The signifigance of Stephenson being in the Currie Ward would immediately and effectively eliminate Stephenson from “possibly” being Jack The Ripper, since he was sinecured in that ward at least until October 16th, 1888…a full fortnight after the Catherine Eddowes murder.

If research had not been undertaken to examine the actual London Hospital register ( as Dimolianis did by email and Covell did in person ), the declarations by both Harris and Edwards that Stephenson only spent time in the Davis Ward may have gone uncountered for years and years to come.

Furthermore, the theory of Stephenson as Ripper according to Harris comes in two parts.

First, in the book, The Ripper File, Mr.Harris did not know WHEN Stephenson entered the London Hospital, since on page 168 of that book he inadvertantly admits to as much by stating boldly that Stephenson entered the LH after the November 9th murder of Mary Kelly.

When Harris discovered WHEN Stephenson entered the LH, he developed a new theory and placed it within the covers of his subsequent pro-D’Onston book, The True Face of JTR, in 1994.

In this new theory, Harris posited the baseless and groundless concept that somehow Stephenson was faking his July 26th complaint of “neurasthenia”. Harris maintained that Stephenson didn’t need 134 days in a hospital to have this affliction cured. Needless to say, Melvin Harris was not a doctor and certainly not an attendant physician in the LH in July of 1888.

But in omitting the Currie Ward from the public’s view, Harris was able to propel Stephenson within a select group of major Ripper suspects until the advent of a cadre of researchers I organized in 2005 which inevitably culminated in the Ripperological community becoming aware that indeed, the Currie Ward was mentioned as well as that Ward’s protocol being revealed which demolished and annihilated Harris’s theory…a theory that only existed as long as the Currie Ward was not fully examined and one both pro-authors knew full well existed.

The other pro-D’Onston theorist, Ivor Edwards, took Stephenson to a new low with his theory of why these murders were committed by Stephenson. Edwards actually doesn’t expand on Stephensonian research as he claims Melvin Harris said he did in a quote found within his book.

Edwards developed the theory, which even current and former ( such as myself ) Stephensonians simply dismiss or dismissed as science fiction, that Stephenson committed the murders based on an outline of a “sacred symbol” the pacifistic sign of the Vesica Pisces.

Not only is the Vesica Pisces a sign of passivity, but no known “occult” or “black magic” references exist in the recorded history of humankind of this symbol being used in any way whatsoever to indicate the “occult”.

More to come.

In the future, this section of the blog will discuss the seminal arguments that Stephenson was Jack The Ripper by those who promoted him…and the facts at hand which clearly demonstrate his candidacy to be Jack The Ripper null and void.

Anyone who wishes to participate should please contact me.