What a Cheek!

[Suzi]

Interesting AP go on.............Can we check the whereabouts of this pub in said street-- Maps!!!!

[Celesta]

Cellie:

Thats what I think too. However,as Lyn pointed out the nuances between American( what we are) and British vernacular....she has a point too.

Yep, she does. I'm agreeing. Let me say it slightly differently. For some reason, Driscoll thought Mac should be familiar with him, whether that be from the pub or from his having been arrested before. Like Lynners said, it's odd that the bell would have been rung and likewise odd that a burglar would've said anything unless he thought that he would be known to the person being burgled. Now, that A.P. has provided the info about the pub and the pensioners, it seems possible that Driscoll might have thought he'd be known to Mac.

[Stephen Thomas]

For what it's worth, Great Peter Street is today a fascinating old London lane a couple of streets south of London's most obnoxious modern thoroughfare IMHO, Victoria Street, and probably following some old Medieval street pattern. Quite a bit of black and blue on the Booth Maps, I notice there.

[caz]

Topsy-turvy?

In police testimony it is stated that the young men were frequently seen at the 'Star & Garter' public house in Great Peter Street.
Now this is where it gets very interesting, for this pub was the haunt of young men who specialised in robbing or blackmailing older men whom they had blagged into buying them drinks etc, with perhaps the promise of something else afterwards?
Guardsmen and the like frequented the pub as they knew there to be easy touches to be made amongst many of the older men who spent their service pensions there...

Blimey Cap'n - so we now have Macnaghten possibly mixing with low young men who tried to fleece him, while his private information tells him that Monty Druitt used to mix with low older women - before killing 'em.

Maybe his idea of sexual insanity was frequenting the dive bars to grab a granny, when anyone normal would go there to treat a toy boy.

Love,

Caz
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