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Robert James Lees (12 August 1849 – 11 January 1931) was a British spiritualist, medium, preacher, writer and healer of the late Victorian era and early twentieth century known today for claims that he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper, responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
Oct 30, 2019 · Robert James Lees (1849 – 1931), the central person to the narrative of the story, was a medium, spiritualist preacher, philanthropist and educator, who frequently pops up in films on the Whitechapel murders as the clairvoyant who knows the identity of the killer, but who is ridiculed by the police authorities as a crank or crackpot.
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The ‘Chicago’ article claimed that over a number of years Lees had been troubled by psychic visions of Jack the Ripper at work. Each vision came true. Lees was so disturbed by his visions that he sought medical advice and went abroad as a result. Whilst abroad he was not troubled by any such visions.
May 6, 2009 · Jack the Ripper. By repute Lees was psychic advisor to Queen Victoria and Scotland Yard at the time of the Jack the Ripper murders. It is claimed that Lees was instrumental in the...
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Lees, Robert James (ca. 1849-ca. 1931) British clairvoyant and pensioner of the Privy Purse who was often received at Buckingham Palace by Queen Victoria. He was also the subject of a hoax concerning the infamous Jack the Ripper case.
(1849-1931) UK psychic, most famous for being the subject of a Jack the Ripper hoax, when a newspaper declared that he had pointed out a physician as the murderer. Of some sf interest is The Car of Phoebus ( 1903 ), which incorporates a Lost Race into a story involving Reincarnation; his remaining works lie outside the range of sf. [JC]
MAN RELEASED. A claim to have captured Jack the Ripper is put forward by a former member of the Metropolitan Police in a remarkable letter to the “Daily Express.
