Originally posted by harry
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So for your suggestion to work, he would have been up some other staircase in the street, or inside one of the dwellings. And if he was, then he placed evidence on his own doorstep, which is not a very likely thing to have happened.
Thatīs not to say that it could not have happened. It could. And of course, what I was indicating in my post was that the probable thing is that since the rag was not in the doorway at 2.20, it was not in Goulston Street at all at that time. Meaning that the killer had either taken a detour or withdrawn to a bolthole before passing Goulston Street. That seems the probable thing.
I even got so enthusiastic about that suggestion that I forgot to add the possibility that the killer took the apron and headed for Goulston STreet immediately, and when he arrived there, he stayed put, let Long pass and THEN he sneaked out, put the rag in the doorway (in the midst of the police search) and left. Alternatively, he went to his dwellings in Goulston Street, waited almost an hour, whereupon he descended his stairs (in the midst of the police search), put the rag in the doorway and walked back up again.
Since I find both suggestions very unlikely and bordering on ridiculous, they will have slipped my mind. But I donīt mind - being equipped with a nonsense filter has itīs advantages.
You may not be aware of that, though.
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