East London Observer, Oct 6th, 1888
"Lewis Dienischitz [Diemschutz], who is the steward of the club, found the body, and this is his version of the discovery: "On Saturday," he says, "I left home about half-past eleven in the morning and returned home exactly at one a.m. Sunday morning. I noticed the time at a tobacco shop in the Commercial-road. I was driving a pony harnessed to a costermonger's barrow. I do not keep the pony in the yard of the club, but in George-yard, Cable-street. I drove the barrow home in order to leave my goods there."
I realize to many this is a small point and perhaps not as potentially revealing as I believe it may be, but to me it seems odd that neither Louis or someone else never mentions those goods again. Nor does anyone mention the cart and horse...who took it to George Yard, who unloaded the goods, did police find the unloaded goods in the yard somewhere, was the pony stabled there that night? Did he unload the cart in the morning?
Based upon no less than 4 individual stories given by witnesses at the scene, Louis was there well before 1am as he had claimed. Fanny Mortimer never saw a pony cart or horse on the street between 12:30 and 1am, nor did she mention one when she came back out just after 1am. We know that she was at her door from approx 12:50 until 1am without interruption and that she stated she saw no-one on that street but a man at 12:55-56 who turned out to be Leon Goldstein. Passing by the yards gated entrance after glancing in.
Im sure most would agree that Louis and his pony and cart would essentially block the entranceway with little room on either side to spare. People claimed they stood there at around 12:40-12:45 to see the woman lying in the passageway. They mention Louis. Why doesnt anyone mention that cart/pony obstacle that would obviously need to be tended with since Louis stopped at the entrance to the passageway. Did he intended to take it into the yard to unload, or to unload the "goods" by hand and take them into the yard from the entranceway. The implication in his remarks is that he had enough "goods" to make this side drop off viable, so...where did they go? And the vehicle that brought them.
"Lewis Dienischitz [Diemschutz], who is the steward of the club, found the body, and this is his version of the discovery: "On Saturday," he says, "I left home about half-past eleven in the morning and returned home exactly at one a.m. Sunday morning. I noticed the time at a tobacco shop in the Commercial-road. I was driving a pony harnessed to a costermonger's barrow. I do not keep the pony in the yard of the club, but in George-yard, Cable-street. I drove the barrow home in order to leave my goods there."
I realize to many this is a small point and perhaps not as potentially revealing as I believe it may be, but to me it seems odd that neither Louis or someone else never mentions those goods again. Nor does anyone mention the cart and horse...who took it to George Yard, who unloaded the goods, did police find the unloaded goods in the yard somewhere, was the pony stabled there that night? Did he unload the cart in the morning?
Based upon no less than 4 individual stories given by witnesses at the scene, Louis was there well before 1am as he had claimed. Fanny Mortimer never saw a pony cart or horse on the street between 12:30 and 1am, nor did she mention one when she came back out just after 1am. We know that she was at her door from approx 12:50 until 1am without interruption and that she stated she saw no-one on that street but a man at 12:55-56 who turned out to be Leon Goldstein. Passing by the yards gated entrance after glancing in.
Im sure most would agree that Louis and his pony and cart would essentially block the entranceway with little room on either side to spare. People claimed they stood there at around 12:40-12:45 to see the woman lying in the passageway. They mention Louis. Why doesnt anyone mention that cart/pony obstacle that would obviously need to be tended with since Louis stopped at the entrance to the passageway. Did he intended to take it into the yard to unload, or to unload the "goods" by hand and take them into the yard from the entranceway. The implication in his remarks is that he had enough "goods" to make this side drop off viable, so...where did they go? And the vehicle that brought them.
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