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A Local Man?
The Star appears to have thought not:
15th November 1888. (my emphasis).
It is easy to see that this conclusion was drawn because extensive enquiries in the local area had been fruitless. So, perhaps there is something in what they thought at the time - and 'Jack' did indeed live elsewhere?
I think myself that it's always worth starting with the contemporary view - the people who held those views were living through the times, after all.
The Star appears to have thought not:
Another proof of the originality which mingles with this man's cunning is to be found in the curious limitation of the area within which he commits his crimes. In this way, he induced the police to believe that he must have his habitat in Whitechapel, and he succeeded in confining the search after him almost entirely to that district. Living, however, as he does, elsewhere
It is easy to see that this conclusion was drawn because extensive enquiries in the local area had been fruitless. So, perhaps there is something in what they thought at the time - and 'Jack' did indeed live elsewhere?
I think myself that it's always worth starting with the contemporary view - the people who held those views were living through the times, after all.
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