Originally posted by Sam Flynn
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However, having reviewed a number of sources I am forced to concede that Berner Street and the surrounding area didn't seem to be at all "sleepy", although reviewing Fanny Mortimer's account maybe some of the witnesses, i.e Mortimer, were!
Nonetheless, I am surprised that "sleepy" Hanbury Street wasn't busier than it appeared to be. I mean, surely in a working class district in Victorian England a whole range of people would have been getting ready to go to work, or leaving for work, after 5:00am? I really wonder if the local police may have been less than robust at identifying potential witnesses. Or am I just being cynical?
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