Compelling because of the handwritten contemporaneous notes in the margin. Had facts and info not well known and certainly overlooked by many.
I will take the evidence as it stands along with the curators testimony (as he examined the evidence).
Can’t get any closer to the truth than the Black Museum.
But they weren't contemporaneous. They had to be at least 22 years after the events.
There are at least half a dozen earlier accounts clearly refering to Montague John Druitt (whose name did not become public until the 1950s). The earliest in January 1889, when the head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee raised concern about police patrols in Whitechapel being reduced and was told "off the record, The Ripper is dead"