What 5 Questions Would You Like Answered?

[curious4]

Water with it

Hi Gwy.erh

A little more water perhaps?

All the bes!
!

Dave

Hello Dave,

If you feel the need lol!

Best wishes,
Gwyneth

[curious4]

Unforgettable

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks.

Pinched your bottom whilst playing Wagner? Ride of the Valkyries, perhaps? (heh-heh)

Seriously, it seems that Kate was quite eager to get out AND on time.

Cheers.
LC

Hello Lynn,

Yes, unforgettable experience!

I agree. In the normal way of things you would have expected her to stay where she was until morning. I have a faint memory of reading something which suggested some people at the time suspected that she was planning to meet someone, but can't find it. Will keep looking.

Best wishes,
Gwyneth

[lynn cates]

money

Hello Gwyneth. Thanks.

Yes, there was an apocryphal story about Kate having received money from some man a week or so before she died.

Cheers.
LC

[John Wheat]

The question I would like answered would be was Jack one of the known suspects or was he an unknown local?

[Wickerman]

Seriously, it seems that Kate was quite eager to get out AND on time.

Cheers.
LC

Hi Lynn.

Isn't everyone eager to get out of lock-up?

[Sally]

Some I'd like to know the answers to:

Who was Mary Kelly?

Who was Louisa Barnett?

Was Morris Lewis related to Sarah Lewis?

Where was Barnett from 1888 - 1898 - Did he go to Ireland?

How tall was Joseph Fleming?

(Actually not so much the last one; it just seemed topical)

There are more - those are the first I thought of.

[lynn cates]

gaol

Hello Jon. Thanks.

"Isn't everyone eager to get out of lock-up?"

I should think not. Hutch claimed that, given the Victoria Home was closed, he would walk the street all night. I daresay gaol would have been a bit more inviting.

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

Indeed, Lynn.

He looked for a bobby, intending to kick him in the balls, but found none.

Wait. Not sure it didn't happen on Sunday in Petticoat Lane.

Cheers

[Michael W Richards]

I think I need to revise my choices...because I would just love to know who Mrs Long really saw.

Cheers all

[Wickerman]

Hello Jon. Thanks.

"Isn't everyone eager to get out of lock-up?"

I should think not. Hutch claimed that, given the Victoria Home was closed, he would walk the street all night.

Hi Lynn.

But don't you recall John Kelly saying the same thing?
It was a euphemism, admitting to sleeping on the streets, in doorways, or under stairs, was an offense.

Rather than admit to committing an offense by being forced to sleep on the streets, everyone merely say's they walk about all night.

[Observer]

I think I need to revise my choices...because I would just love to know who Mrs Long really saw.

Cheers all

Jacob Isenschmidt and Dolly The Sheep

[lynn cates]

euphemism?

Hello Jon. Thanks.

"But don't you recall John Kelly saying the same thing?"

I do indeed. Almost used him as an example.

"It was a euphemism. . ."

You think so? I don't. If you were caught loitering, I presume the constable would apply the truncheon to your pate.

Cheers.
LC

[Wickerman]

Hello Jon. Thanks.

"But don't you recall John Kelly saying the same thing?"

I do indeed. Almost used him as an example.

"It was a euphemism. . ."

You think so? I don't. If you were caught loitering, I presume the constable would apply the truncheon to your pate.

Cheers.
LC

Hi Lynn.

Ah, no, I had to research the press archives and found specific charges for those found sleeping on the streets.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"... depending whether you had a cot for the night

[curious4]

Kelly

What if Eddowes was an occasional solicitor and upon returning from a failed hopping excursion she was how you say sent out to get money? Hence the drink. Kelly gave her money for drink so it would be easier to deal with. She gets drunk and winds up in jail. Worried about being late and broke she goes on the hunt so she isn't empty-handed upon seeing Kelly again. Something I find funny is that everyone assumes Kidney was abussive but Kelly is a gentle creature. I wonder if it isn't maybe the other way around? Just prattling on.

Hello again Watson,

I think you are being a little hard on Kelly. They seem to have been fond of each other. Kelly by all accounts stood barefoot in the street outside while Kate pawned his new boots, not Kate's new jacket (both bought with the little money they had earned hop-picking). The landlord of the lodging house recalls them both being in by nine(ish) whenever they stayed there and is quite clear that as far as he knew Kate never went with any man apart from Kelly.

Kate was said to have earned her living during the winter by hawking and cleaning and in the summer by fruit-picking and hopping. I grew up in Kent, and to this day it is possible to earn a good wage by fruit-picking (not sure about hopping, though).

I think there is a good case to be made for Kate being the only victim who didn't prostitute herself.

All good wishes,
C4

[C. F. Leon]

And all she had to do was give her correct name & address, she would be deemed cognisant?

(PC Hut) "I was directed by Sergeant Byfield to see if any of the prisoners were fit to be discharged. I found the deceased sober, and after she had given her name and address, she was allowed to leave."

How she made it through the door may have been of secondary concern.

I think that the point was could she answer a question/-s coherently? And by the way, let's make it a question that gives US some useful information.