Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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Some readers may wonder why you are talking about Kosminski smoking a clay pipe at all and whether it actually matters whether I mistakenly thought Anderson was referring to Alice McKenzie's pipe.
There is no evidence that Kosminski smoked at all, let alone that he smoked a distinctive type of clay pipe.
There is, however, considerable evidence of Anderson's confusion about what happened.
He confused the political party allegiances of senior politicians.
He was called a fantasist by Winston Churchill.
He thought he had discussed the murders with a former Home Secretary, even though he had been Home Secretary only before the murders happened.
He claimed that the police deduced that the Whitechapel Murderer did not live alone.
That is not true.
He claimed further that the police therefore deduced that the murderer had to be Jewish.
That is not true, either.
He insisted that Rose Mylett died of natural causes, even though he knew that two post-mortems established the cause of her death as strangulation.
He thought a clay pipe was found in Kelly's room. None was found.
He claimed that Kosminski was already permanently incarcerated in an asylum at a time when he, Anderson, was trying to put him on trial for murder.
It is obvious that Anderson is an entirely unreliable source of information about what really happened.
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