"Dodgson has been suggested as a Ripper suspect by author Richard Wallace in his 1996 book Jack The Ripper - Light Hearted Friend.
Wallace claims deleted passages from Dodgson's diaries apparently contained comments on the murders. Other theorists have Dodgson committing the murders with his Oxford colleague, Thomas Vere Bayne.
At the time of the murders, Vere Bayne, was nearly sixty years old and was suffering from acute back pain. An entry in his diary dated 16 August 1888, he simply said, 'Can barely move, great pain'. Vere Bayne was actually in France from 1 September to 5 October. Dodgson, in 1888, was 56 years of age, 5ft 9in tall, with a very thin frame, he walked with a jerky gait and tended to tilt backward when he stood."
