Suspect Witnesses?

[Lewis C]

Are congratulations in order then Andrew? You appear to believe that you have disproven the ‘killer interrupted’ theory which the majority appear to favour and the police at the time also suspected. Perhaps you think that when a throat is viciously cut there’s some kind of time delay before the bleeding begins?

Agreed Herlock, and also, it's not hard to find people who believe that BS man killed Stride and also believe that Stride was a Ripper murder, which would mean that BS man was the Mitre Square killer. (Assuming that Eddowes was a Ripper murder, which almost everyone believes.)

[NotBlamedForNothing]

Also it had been raining, so water was probably flowing in the gutter, diluting the blood, and moving it fairly quickly.

The rain had stopped, therefore any flow of water along the gutter had stopped. All that's left is mud. Pooling of blood a significant distance from the wound is going to take more time than the interruption theory allows, if the blood has to flow over rocky, muddy ground, as opposed to blood being carried by a flow of water.

If we pin Diemschitz arrival at 1:00am, the murder is probably happening at around 12:50 or 12:55. One question then is what to do about Fanny. One option would be to have her momentarily away from her door when victim and culprit enter the passage. That would mean she was at her door intermittently, regardless of what she said or was reported as saying, to or by the press. Another option is that they entered the passage at an earlier point, and the murderer fled by scaling rooftops.

Neither of these scenarios is compatible with the BS man story, which is just a distraction - possibly intentionally.

[Herlock Sholmes]

The rain had stopped, therefore any flow of water along the gutter had stopped. All that's left is mud. Pooling of blood a significant distance from the wound is going to take more time than the interruption theory allows, if the blood has to flow over rocky, muddy ground, as opposed to blood being carried by a flow of water.

If we pin Diemschitz arrival at 1:00am, the murder is probably happening at around 12:50 or 12:55. One question then is what to do about Fanny. One option would be to have her momentarily away from her door when victim and culprit enter the passage. That would mean she was at her door intermittently, regardless of what she said or was reported as saying, to or by the press. Another option is that they entered the passage at an earlier point, and the murderer fled by scaling rooftops.

Neither of these scenarios is compatible with the BS man story, which is just a distraction - possibly intentionally.

I’ve presented a simple solution. Fanny goes back indoors around 12.55 and the incident occurs sometime between that time and Diemschitz arrival. Where is the issue?