Hi Ghost
I think one objection would be, that the police would be unlikely to cover up the existence of the shawl from each other. After all, the list of Eddowes's possessions was not, as far as I am aware, made public.
Another objection is, while we don't know how much the police would have known about Judaism, if they knew enough about it to recognize the shawl as a prayer shawl, then surely they'd have made discreet enquiries to see if any Jewish woman had lost her shawl (since they'd have known that Eddowes wasn't Jewish). Either Eddowes had come into possession of it somehow, or her killer had given it to her. Either way, I think the police would have tried to found out the history of the shawl.
All of that, of course, assumes that the shawl was in the Square, and that is a big 'if.'
I think one objection would be, that the police would be unlikely to cover up the existence of the shawl from each other. After all, the list of Eddowes's possessions was not, as far as I am aware, made public.
Another objection is, while we don't know how much the police would have known about Judaism, if they knew enough about it to recognize the shawl as a prayer shawl, then surely they'd have made discreet enquiries to see if any Jewish woman had lost her shawl (since they'd have known that Eddowes wasn't Jewish). Either Eddowes had come into possession of it somehow, or her killer had given it to her. Either way, I think the police would have tried to found out the history of the shawl.
All of that, of course, assumes that the shawl was in the Square, and that is a big 'if.'
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