How realistic was it for JTR to disguise himself as a PC?

[Leanne]

Was it completely demolished?

[Leanne]

DORSET STREET SPITALFIELSDS 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RY4iKMEYE

[Sam Flynn]

The link about plays a video of the passage in question of Millers Court before it was pulled down. The camera scans all the way down the passage, revealing a window and a door besides Mary Kelly's.

Miller's Court was demolished in the 1920s, though.

[Leanne]

The link about plays a video of the passage in question of Millers Court before it was pulled down. The camera scans all the way down the passage, revealing a window and a door besides Mary Kelly's.

[Leanne]

from an old Ripper Walk:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ripper+Victim+Mary+Kelly&&view=detail&mid=27F4C151249FF91D16C527F4C151249FF91D16C5&&FORM=VRDGAR

[Wickerman]

Here is an amazing 3d rendition of what the layout seems to have been from numerous press articles & witness testimony.

[Wickerman]

The second door to the upstairs, is a little clearer here.


Both doors are marked on this Ordnance Survey Map, though Kelly's door is not exactly correct.

[Wickerman]

THE WINDOW that existed between Kelly's door and main entrance to Miller's Court. Some crime scene sketches fail to render it because they weren't interested in that part of Miller's Court. But the Illustrated Police News does.

The wall where we see Kelly's door continues down the passage and within the passage was another door, there is no window inside the passage.

Millers Court has been destroyed now so we will never know for sure. I found a mention that this room or storage area became a problem because homeless people slept there during the Ripper scare and thinking that it was too tempting to the Ripper, the door facing Dorset Street was boarded up. The open window, however made it known to people living in the Court.

My favorite suspect, Joseph Barnett, had a 'hidden' storage place to store knives, disguises, bloody clothes, etc. I'm pretty sure Bruce Paley mentions it in his book.

Yes, I thought you were the same Leanne we used to debate with back in the late 90's, and firm supporter of Bruce Paley

Nice to see you back.

[Leanne]

I didn't mean to post it twice

[Leanne]

Look very closely at this photo:
There appears to be a window, not a door.

[Leanne]

[Leanne]

FROM THAT WRITING I FOUND:

'The room, however, is really the back parlour of 26, Dorset-street, the front shop being partitioned off, and used for the storage of barrows, &c.

This was formerly left open, and poor persons often took shelter there for the night; but when the Whitechapel murders caused so much alarm the police thought the spot offered a temptation to the murderer, and so the front was securely boarded up.

Although the window was open to the observation of any of the inmates of the court, the door was some distance from any other, and afforded the utmost facility for an easy escape.”

[Leanne]

THE WINDOW that existed between Kelly's door and main entrance to Miller's Court. Some crime scene sketches fail to render it because they weren't interested in that part of Miller's Court. But the Illustrated Police News does.

Millers Court has been destroyed now so we will never know for sure. I found a mention that this room or storage area became a problem because homeless people slept there during the Ripper scare and thinking that it was too tempting to the Ripper, the door facing Dorset Street was boarded up. The open window, however made it known to people living in the Court.

My favorite suspect, Joseph Barnett, had a 'hidden' storage place to store knives, disguises, bloody clothes, etc. I'm pretty sure Bruce Paley mentions it in his book.

[Wickerman]

What are you showing me here Leanne, that is a well known sketch.

[Leanne]

Millers court: