CHAPTER 14 - A DECEIVING CALM
The month of October was quiet in Whitechapel. So, too, was the month of October quiet in Maybrick's diary. He had recently turned 50. His "medicine" was not giving him the strength he thought it would. Yet, at the end of the month, he wrote: It has been far too long since my last, I have been unwell. Looking to his "medicine" for help, Maybrick writes: I was forced to stop myself from indulging in my pleasure by taking the largest dose I have ever done. The pain that night has burnt into my mind...The pain was intolerable, as I think I shudder. No more...I am convinced God placed me here to kill all whores, for he must have done so, am I still not here. Nothing will stop me now. The more I take the more stronger I become... And so it was that with his feelings of righteous mission and increasing strength, James Maybrick met Mary Jane Kelly.  GO TO STORY INDEX |