CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (1906) The Zodiac Killer often reacted to newspaper articles within his communications, such as the quotation of Merian C. Cooper that appeared in a handful of newspapers in 1932, when the associate producer of "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932) responded to the release of his latest film while being interviewed and stated "man is the most dangerous animal of all", which Zodiac incorporated into his 408 cipher on July 31st 1969. This quotation had never appeared in any newspaper from 1690 to 1969, other than a few 1932 publications.
If the Zodiac Killer was responsible for the Confession letters sent on November 29th 1966, he may have taken the phrase "it was about time for her to die" from a newspaper in 1888 (the year of Jack the Ripper), and designed the letters around the Whitechapel murderer. We also know that the Zodiac Killer referenced three acts of "The Mikado" (1885) in his communications, and certainly wasn't afraid to delve into the archives and utilize material from yesteryear. Additionally, he appeared to have derived inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) in the design of his 340 cipher and the wording contained within it.
Recently I made the suggestion of "My name is me" as the answer to the 13-Symbol cipher mailed on April 20th 1970, but couldn't help wondering if the Zodiac Killer plagiarized this quotation as well. So I typed this phrase into a newspaper search engine and got what I was looking for in a piece of literary work by Charlotte Wilson, centered on the word "name". It appeared in several newspapers in 1906, including the Chicago Daily News. If the Zodiac Killer was scanning microfiche to grab quotes such as "man is the most dangerous animal of all" (1932) and "it was about time for her to die" (1888) to incorporate into his letters, was it possible he took "My name is me" from Charlotte Wilson in 1906?
It may seem unlikely until we consider the design of the April 20th 1970 letter which was mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle and featured the bombing of police officers, along with the possible solution of "My name is me", and the three 8's in the 13-Symbol code. If we throw in Vallejo (and Mare Island) where the Zodiac Killer may have lived, then Charlotte Wilson and the Haymarket massacre is central to them all. If the Zodiac Killer had scoured the newspaper archives or was historically familiar with Vallejo, he would have come across this information (as I did with just a cursory search). The numbers 888 (possibly within a clock face) was pivotal to the writings of Charlotte Wilson in 1888.
If the Zodiac Killer was responsible for the Confession letters sent on November 29th 1966, he may have taken the phrase "it was about time for her to die" from a newspaper in 1888 (the year of Jack the Ripper), and designed the letters around the Whitechapel murderer. We also know that the Zodiac Killer referenced three acts of "The Mikado" (1885) in his communications, and certainly wasn't afraid to delve into the archives and utilize material from yesteryear. Additionally, he appeared to have derived inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) in the design of his 340 cipher and the wording contained within it.
Recently I made the suggestion of "My name is me" as the answer to the 13-Symbol cipher mailed on April 20th 1970, but couldn't help wondering if the Zodiac Killer plagiarized this quotation as well. So I typed this phrase into a newspaper search engine and got what I was looking for in a piece of literary work by Charlotte Wilson, centered on the word "name". It appeared in several newspapers in 1906, including the Chicago Daily News. If the Zodiac Killer was scanning microfiche to grab quotes such as "man is the most dangerous animal of all" (1932) and "it was about time for her to die" (1888) to incorporate into his letters, was it possible he took "My name is me" from Charlotte Wilson in 1906?
It may seem unlikely until we consider the design of the April 20th 1970 letter which was mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle and featured the bombing of police officers, along with the possible solution of "My name is me", and the three 8's in the 13-Symbol code. If we throw in Vallejo (and Mare Island) where the Zodiac Killer may have lived, then Charlotte Wilson and the Haymarket massacre is central to them all. If the Zodiac Killer had scoured the newspaper archives or was historically familiar with Vallejo, he would have come across this information (as I did with just a cursory search). The numbers 888 (possibly within a clock face) was pivotal to the writings of Charlotte Wilson in 1888.
CHARLOTTE MARY WILSON Charlotte Mary Wilson was an English Fabian and anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. She remained editor of Freedom until 1895. The current headquarters of Freedom Press is 84b Whitechapel High Street in London (127 Ossulston Street in 1898). Charlotte Mary Wilson was a prolific writer, as can be seen here in a comprehensive list of articles. She advocated heavily for the working man and union rights.
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886 at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois. The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day; it was held the day after a May 3 rally at a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant on the West Side of Chicago, during which two demonstrators had been killed and many demonstrators and police had been injured. At the Haymarket Square rally on May 4, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded.
Charlotte Wilson wrote extensive articles about the Haymarket massacre, that included "The Chicago Anniversary" (1888), "The Chicago Martyrs" (1889), and "In Memory of Chicago" (1889) to name but a few. She wrote "The eight Anarchist Socialists picked out by the Chicago police as victims of the rage and terror inspired in the propertied classes by the growing energy of the labor movement, had absolutely nothing to do with the throwing of the bomb at the Haymarket meeting in May, 1886. The prosecution utterly failed to connect these eight men with the fatal bomb in any sense which did not equally apply to the 20,000 revolutionary Socialists of the Chicago Central Labor Union, or indeed to any active revolutionary propagandist in the world. They were simply selected as the most energetic and earnest advocates of opinions obnoxious to the ruling classes, opinions gaining ground so fast as to threaten the very existence of property and wage-slavery. These opinions were, (1) Socialism, i.e., common property of the workers in the instruments of labor; (2) Anarchism, i.e., the destruction of all arbitrary authority and the substitution of cooperation by free consent and decision by unanimity; (3) that these great social changes can only be brought about by the direct action of the workers; (4) that if the monopolists of property and upholders of authority resist the demands of the people by armed force, the people are right in defending themselves by armed force, and for this contingency they must be prepared".
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886 at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois. The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day; it was held the day after a May 3 rally at a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant on the West Side of Chicago, during which two demonstrators had been killed and many demonstrators and police had been injured. At the Haymarket Square rally on May 4, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded.
Charlotte Wilson wrote extensive articles about the Haymarket massacre, that included "The Chicago Anniversary" (1888), "The Chicago Martyrs" (1889), and "In Memory of Chicago" (1889) to name but a few. She wrote "The eight Anarchist Socialists picked out by the Chicago police as victims of the rage and terror inspired in the propertied classes by the growing energy of the labor movement, had absolutely nothing to do with the throwing of the bomb at the Haymarket meeting in May, 1886. The prosecution utterly failed to connect these eight men with the fatal bomb in any sense which did not equally apply to the 20,000 revolutionary Socialists of the Chicago Central Labor Union, or indeed to any active revolutionary propagandist in the world. They were simply selected as the most energetic and earnest advocates of opinions obnoxious to the ruling classes, opinions gaining ground so fast as to threaten the very existence of property and wage-slavery. These opinions were, (1) Socialism, i.e., common property of the workers in the instruments of labor; (2) Anarchism, i.e., the destruction of all arbitrary authority and the substitution of cooperation by free consent and decision by unanimity; (3) that these great social changes can only be brought about by the direct action of the workers; (4) that if the monopolists of property and upholders of authority resist the demands of the people by armed force, the people are right in defending themselves by armed force, and for this contingency they must be prepared".
Rudolph Schnaubelt, the fierce visaged anarchist who was suspected of throwing the Haymarket bomb in Chicago and for whose apprehension the police machinery of the world has been in motion since, died in 1896. The end of his long flight; and years of hiding ended in a little town in southern California. Consumption - also known as tuberculosis - finally found him out. Schnaubelt was one of the first men arrested with Lines, Spies and Schwab after the great riot in Chicago. For ten hours the police kept him in the sweat box, but his nerves stood the test and they let him go. He took immediate advantage of this and disappeared into the night. In fact, there were reports he was seen in Vallejo, California in 1895, including newspaper articles that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (1995)
Eight anarchists were charged with the Haymarket bombing on police. They were convicted of conspiracy in the internationally publicized legal proceedings. The evidence put forward in the court trial was that one of the defendants may have built the bomb but none of those on trial had thrown it, and only two of the eight were at the Haymarket at the time. Seven were sentenced to death and one to a term of 15 years in prison. This anarchist bombing was the culmination of workers striking for an 8 hour working day, which grabbed the attention of Charlotte Wilson, who authored and editorialized many articles about it.
The Haymarket affair is closely associated with the number 888, which symbolized the movement for an 8-hour workday. This number was used to represent the ideal of three 8-hour shifts: one for work, one for rest, and one for personal time ("Three Eights"rule). The affair itself involved a labor protest in Chicago on May 4th 1886, where a bomb was detonated, leading to violence and casualties. The intertwined numbers 888 had previously been placed on many union buildings around Australia. This "Eight Hour March", which began on 21 April 1856, continued each year until 1951 in Melbourne, when the conservative Victorian Trades Hall Council decided to forgo the tradition for the Moomba festival on the Labour Day weekend. In capital cities and towns across Australia, Eight Hour day marches became a regular social event each year, with early marches often restricted to those workers who had won an eight-hour day. The phrase "888" represents the concept of dividing a 24-hour day into three equal eight-hour blocks: eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. This concept, popularized by Robert Owen in the early 19th century, is often associated with the eight-hour workday movement, which aimed to establish a more balanced and healthy work-life balance. Below is the 888 campaign in Denmark in 1912.
The Haymarket affair is closely associated with the number 888, which symbolized the movement for an 8-hour workday. This number was used to represent the ideal of three 8-hour shifts: one for work, one for rest, and one for personal time ("Three Eights"rule). The affair itself involved a labor protest in Chicago on May 4th 1886, where a bomb was detonated, leading to violence and casualties. The intertwined numbers 888 had previously been placed on many union buildings around Australia. This "Eight Hour March", which began on 21 April 1856, continued each year until 1951 in Melbourne, when the conservative Victorian Trades Hall Council decided to forgo the tradition for the Moomba festival on the Labour Day weekend. In capital cities and towns across Australia, Eight Hour day marches became a regular social event each year, with early marches often restricted to those workers who had won an eight-hour day. The phrase "888" represents the concept of dividing a 24-hour day into three equal eight-hour blocks: eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. This concept, popularized by Robert Owen in the early 19th century, is often associated with the eight-hour workday movement, which aimed to establish a more balanced and healthy work-life balance. Below is the 888 campaign in Denmark in 1912.
In essence we have Charlotte Wilson, an anarchist, who wrote extensively on the demonstration and bombing of police in Chicago in 1886, in which the numbers 888 were an integral part of the 8-hour workers rally in Haymarket Square, from where, one of the suspected bombers would disappear from and eventually be sighted in Vallejo, California. Rudolph Schnaubelt's brother, Edward (also an anarchist), worked at the United States Naval Shipyard at Mare Island. When the numbers 888, formed into a clock face in the 13-Symbol cipher, are given a right shift of eight positions, they complete the phrase of "My name is me", used by Charlotte Wilson in the above newspaper snippet from 1906 entitled "An Ancient Problem". A signature that would be later used by the Zodiac Killer in the Exorcist letter mailed on January 29th 1974, featuring "The Mikado" (1885). The 13-Symbol cipher letter mailed on April 20th 1970 carries all of these ingredients The police, the bombing, the numbers 888, and possibly the phrase "My name is me". The common denominator being Charlotte Wilson. Or is it just one of a series of coincidences that plague the Zodiac Killer case?
*The 8-hour workday campaign refers to the historic movement to reduce the standard working day to eight hours. The movement gained momentum in Australia, particularly with the stonemasons' strike in Melbourne on April 21, 1856, which is considered a key event in the fight for an 8-hour day. This strike, along with other worker protests, led to the eventual implementation of the eight-hour day in Australia and other parts of the world. April 21st was possibly the day the Zodiac Killer believed his cipher and letter would be published.
*The 8-hour workday campaign refers to the historic movement to reduce the standard working day to eight hours. The movement gained momentum in Australia, particularly with the stonemasons' strike in Melbourne on April 21, 1856, which is considered a key event in the fight for an 8-hour day. This strike, along with other worker protests, led to the eventual implementation of the eight-hour day in Australia and other parts of the world. April 21st was possibly the day the Zodiac Killer believed his cipher and letter would be published.
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