Jack the Ripper Doesn't Exist

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ABBERLINE enters. He is cleanly dressed.

 ABBERLINE: Is this James Kelly?

KELLY: You’re lookin’ old, Freddy.

ABBERLINE: (to Alice) You can leave now.

ALICE: I ain’t goin’ nowhere!

ABBERLINE: Miss Crook, I think it might impact my interview if you stay.

ALICE: I read your papers. You ain’t a cop no more. You ain’t entitled to private interviews unless Mr. Kelly requests...

KELLY: I’d like to speak with Inspector Abberline alone. Please.

ALICE: Jimmy, no! Be quiet. Let me talk!

ABBERLINE: I haven’t been an inspector for more than 25 years. I retired. I fix clocks these days. That’s why it took so long to answer your letter.

ALICE: Jimmy don’t know what he’s doing sometimes. He just writes things in them letters. It ain’t always true.

ABBERLINE: Did you read the letter he sent me?

ALICE: Not that one, he said it was a secret. Dr. Taylor read it, though.

ABBERLINE: I’m sure Taylor would enjoy this. Why don’t you go find him?

ALICE: You let him run thirty years and didn’t care, now he turned hisself in you want to come sniffin’? He’s an old man now, leave him alone.

ABBERLINE: Queen Victoria herself trembled over these crimes. Could you please run along and fetch the Doctor?

ALICE: Yes, Inspector Abberline.

Alice exits.

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