Bucks Row Scenarios

[Fiver]

Hi Tani,

Here’s my (long) list.

• Lechmere sees something lying on the opposite side of the street, which he, at first, thinks might be a tarpaulin sheet. Then, while crossing the street, he sees it’s the figure of a woman.
• He then hears someone coming. This someone is, of course, Paul.
• Lechmere waits for Paul and together they walk over to the body.
• They examine the body shortly and then leave it in search of a copper.
• Paul & Lechmere arrive at where Mizen is (the end of Hanbury Street).
• At around the same time Neil discovers the body.
• Very shortly afterwards Neil hears Thain pass Brady Street and flags him down with his lantern.
• Thain arrives at crime spot, where he sees the body and Neil immediately sends him for the doctor.
• Some short time after Thain has left, Neil spots Mizen and flags him down with his lantern, as well.
• Shortly afterwards Mizen arrives at crime spot and Neil sends him immediately for the ambulance at the Bethnal Green station, some 920 meters away from the crime scene.
• Thain arrives at the doctor’s.
• Sergeant Kirby arrives and one or two other constables. And two or three (work)men arrive, too.
• Neil rings the bell at Essex Wharf and Walter Purkiss opens a window. He’s able to see the deceased and that there are two or three men there besides three or four constables.
• About the same time St. Kirby knocks at Mrs. Green door and she also opens her window. She, too, sees the body of deceased lying on the ground and three or four constables and two or three other men.
• Thain returns with doctor Llewellyn.
• Thain receives orders to remain at the spot to wait for Spratling after the body will have been removed.
• Because Thain doesn’t know how long he has to wait for Spratling and before Nichols is moved to the mortuary in Pavillion Yard, Thain goes to the slaughterhouse in Winthrop Street to fetch his cape and tells the men there’s a woman murdered in Buck’s Row.
• In this same period (from Thain returning with the doctor to him going to the slaughterhouse) Mizen returns with the ambulance.
• Two of the 3 slaughtermen go to the crime spot and remain there until the body of Nichols is removed and taken to the mortuary in Pavilion Yard. They remain some 10 minutes.
• After a man passes Mulshaw and tells him he believes a woman is murdered in the street, Mulshaw also goes to have a look. He sees the body of deceased lying on the ground and three or four policemen and five or six working men standing around it.
• The body is put on the ambulance by Thain and another constable and carried away by Neil, Kirby and Mizen.
• Around this same point Inspector Spratling receives information about the murder when in Hackney Road, over 1 km from the crime spot. He first goes to the station and then to Buck’s Row.
• The son of Mrs. Green washes the blood away with a pail of water with Thain present.
• Spratling arrives at the scene and is shown by Thain where the body had lain.
• Spratling then goes to the mortuary and finds the body on an ambulance in the yard. It had been placed there because the keys, which had been sent for, had not yet arrived.
• While waiting, Spratling takes a description of the dead woman.
• Robert Mann arrives with the keys, after which the body is put on the floor of the mortuary.
• Spratling discovers the injuries to the abdomen, and he sends for Dr. Llewellyn.
• Dr. Llewellyn is summoned to the mortuary to see about the abdominal wounds.
• Dr. Llewellyn arrives at the mortuary and makes an examination lasting about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.

Of course, it's not always easy to determine the precise sequence of each and every coming & going, so I'm not claiming that the order above must be correct, but there you go...

All the best,
Frank

Nicely done and very thorough.

The only thing that I notice missing is that while Dr Lewellyn was examining the body, an unknown man passed down Buck's Row. The coroner asked the police about that man during in inquest, but they had not found him. Since the coroner didn't ask about the other men who came to the crime scene, that implies that those other men were identified by the police. We should also consider that this unknown man might have been the man who told Patrick Mulshaw of the murder.

[Elamarna]

Nicely done and very thorough.

The only thing that I notice missing is that while Dr Lewellyn was examining the body, an unknown man passed down Buck's Row. The coroner asked the police about that man during in inquest, but they had not found him. Since the coroner didn't ask about the other men who came to the crime scene, that implies that those other men were identified by the police. We should also consider that this unknown man might have been the man who told Patrick Mulshaw of the murder.

It's mentioned in the press reports section, and I think it's touched elsewhere, but only in passing. I will check to see if it needs more highlighting.

Funnily enough, the chapter on Thain and Llewellyn is seriously updated in the next update, in May.
It's one chapter I had not altered from the 1st Edition.

Steve.

[FrankO]

Nicely done and very thorough.

The only thing that I notice missing is that while Dr Lewellyn was examining the body, an unknown man passed down Buck's Row. The coroner asked the police about that man during in inquest, but they had not found him. Since the coroner didn't ask about the other men who came to the crime scene, that implies that those other men were identified by the police. We should also consider that this unknown man might have been the man who told Patrick Mulshaw of the murder.

Thanks Fiver. And good point about the unknown man passing down Buck's Row while the doctor was there with Nichols still in place. Interestingly, he may indeed have been the man who informed Mulshaw.