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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.
The Lees/Ripper story has often been used to advance arguments for certain suspects being the Ripper. In ‘Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution’, Stephen Knight used the story to help advance the carriage/William Gull theory. Lees has also appeared in Ripper novels and films, for example, Donald Sutherland played him in the Sherlock Holmes ...
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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.
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.
Mar 22, 2017 · JOHN PIZER. The evidence against bootmaker John Pizer appears to have been circumstantial. For some time, the police and the press had been searching for someone they named “ Leather Apron ,”...
On the 28 April 1895 the Chicago Sunday Times published a story in which it claimed the medium Robert Lees had received a psychic impression of the Whitechapel murderer. Seventeen murders later the police asked for his assistance.
