"The two gentlemen watching over your daughter do not particularly like you, so I advise you not to provoke them."
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"Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects. "
http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/chapter-03.html
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This lunatic, in letting Scrooge's nephew out, had let two other people in. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood, with their hats off, in Scrooge's office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him.
``Scrooge and Marley's, I believe,'' said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. ``Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr Scrooge, or Mr Marley?''
``Mr Marley has been dead these seven years,'' Scrooge replied. ``He died seven years ago, this very night.''
``We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,'' said the gentleman, presenting his credentials.
It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits. At the ominous word ``liberality'', Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back.
``At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,'' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, ``it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.''
``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.
http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/chapter-01.html
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I suppose we could simply forget JBR's dad was referred to as a 'fat cat' in a vicious writing from Christmas Day, by someone associated with a vicious child murder on Christmas Night. DA and mass media are telling us that the R's didn't do it. This even further raises the questions "why Christmas Night?" and "why the big long literary work instead of a real ransom note?"
The idea here is that someone was inspired by the spooky Christmas story, donned the character of the Ghost of Christmas Present, and arrived Christmas Night. The ransom note did not need to refer to two gentlemen, 'fat cats', or how brainless JR was in order to get JR to go to the bank. The crime did not need to be comitted on Christmas Night. These are superfluous to a kidnap for ransom, sexual assault, or familial coverup. But these are not superfluous to a Scrooge-inspired crime.
