Suspect Witnesses?

[c.d.]

Did they have Yiddish/Hebrew translators too?

Schwartz couldn't speak English after all.

I'm suggesting that they (the newspaper people) spoke to the police who put them on to Schwartz. If they then got the story from Schwartz himself there must have been a translator present.

c.d.

[seanr]

It could have been the Police who informed the Press about a witness. There is another possibility. Or even two other possibilities.

Incidentally, the Police passing information to the Press directly about witnesses who have yet to testify, should probably be frowned upon.

[seanr]

Its reasonable to question whether the parties in and around this disturbance were related, known to each other, out together etc. whether there was a feud (remember Kidney wasn't a very happy bunny at the time of Strides murder)

Any such relationship could have been the key to unlocking this crime.

Some of you might be onto something... a little bit of lateral thinking and you might see something astonishing.

To the original point, I'm sure Schwartz was a real person who actually existed and gave a statement to the police.

[c.d.]

Didn't the police look into who might have wanted to kill Stride?

c.d.

[The Rookie Detective]

Here's a little curve ball...

What if the story reported and subsequently printed in the English press (the Star) just a few hours after the murder, that related to a person having seen what they thought was a domestic... wasn't Schwartz, but instead....

was Pipeman?

I'm sure I read somewhere about Pipeman having been ruled out by the police?

What if Pipeman (and not Schwartz) was the person who went to the police or to the Star, and reported they had seen a domestic assault?

That would negate the need for the inevitable time delay in finding a translator.

Just a thought

[The Rookie Detective]

It could have been the Police who informed the Press about a witness. There is another possibility. Or even two other possibilities.

Incidentally, the Police passing information to the Press directly about witnesses who have yet to testify, should probably be frowned upon.

Exactly.

The fact that a man who couldn't speak English was able to go to the police and give a statement, and that story was then printed in the press so soon afterwards, indicates that there must have been some cohesion between the police and the press.

Likely, a leak to the press.

Did Schwartz's statement appear in a Jewish publication?
Because if it didn't, then it certainly should have done.

IMO, the initial report of a witness observing what they thought was a domestic assault, doesn't seem to have originated from Schwartz.

[Paddy Goose]

The press probably had people who hung around police stations and who would give someone a few bucks who turned them on to a good story.
c.d.

Nope, sorry c.d. no newspaperman has ever hung around a police station house. That's why Rookie has rightly characterized this instance a case of-

incredible cohesion between the police and the press

That's right, it is incredible cohesion.

This is a game changer. An earth-shattering revelation which rewrites the story of journalism and police work in the history of western civilization.

The real question though, is it earth shattering enough to wake Diddles from a nap?

[seanr]

Did Schwartz's statement appear in a Jewish publication?
Because if it didn't, then it certainly should have done.

I do wish it was possible to check the back issues of the Arbeter Fraynd. I wonder what it would have said about this matter.

[seanr]

Nope, sorry c.d. no newspaperman has ever hung around a police station house. That's why Rookie has rightly characterized this instance a case of-



That's right, it is incredible cohesion.

This is a game changer. An earth-shattering revelation which rewrites the story of journalism and police work in the history of western civilization.

The real question though, is it earth shattering enough to wake Diddles from a nap?

Of course, enjoying a little payment for leaking information to a paying customer about a live investigation, is just one of the perks of the job.

I guess Diddles can stay asleep.

[seanr]

I do wish it was possible to check the back issues of the Arbeter Fraynd. I wonder what it would have said about this matter.

I just remembered the column on the murders from the Arbeter Fraynd from October the 5th 1888. Paddy Goose kindly linked to it in the Yom Kippur Ball thread. https://forum.casebook.org/forum/rip...-fraint-s-take

It didn’t mention Schwartz at all. I expect they’d have been aware of him, so it’s interesting why he doesn’t get a mention.