Hi everyone. I had a question. Although we cannot definitely say for certain if witnesses in the JTR case actually had a glimpse of the murderer, I thought it might be interesting to compare their descriptions with some of the plausible suspects we have in the case. Now, if we assume that the witnesses did, in fact, catch a glimpse of JTR, the killer is described as: usually between the ages of 26-30 (with an exception by one witness who said he appeared over 40), moustache (sometimes short, sometimes prominent), wearing a deerstalker hat or a cap with a peak, a red hankerchief, in the area of 5'5"-5'7", may or may not have had a foreign accent; other descriptions have him as being "shabby, genteel" blotchy-faced, or maybe dressed like a "toff" but the clothes appeared to be not recent and rather worn out (as per George Hutchinson)
Now, among the plausible suspects we have, does anyone think this description looks kind of like any that we have on record? Me personally, it is hard to say but my preferred suspect has always been Klosowski.
One question I did have concerns the jewish suspects (Kosminski, Cohen ,and Levy). Since msot of these descriptions describe a man with either the appearance of a sailor or local East End gent, what did the Jews of the East End look like in regard to appearance. I mean, did any of them try to "blend in" and made their appearance and garments similar to local East End citizens or did they sort of had a more "stereotypical" appearance? if the latter is true, doesn't that make it difficult for the Jewish suspects to be the murderer based on the witness descriptions?
Now, among the plausible suspects we have, does anyone think this description looks kind of like any that we have on record? Me personally, it is hard to say but my preferred suspect has always been Klosowski.
One question I did have concerns the jewish suspects (Kosminski, Cohen ,and Levy). Since msot of these descriptions describe a man with either the appearance of a sailor or local East End gent, what did the Jews of the East End look like in regard to appearance. I mean, did any of them try to "blend in" and made their appearance and garments similar to local East End citizens or did they sort of had a more "stereotypical" appearance? if the latter is true, doesn't that make it difficult for the Jewish suspects to be the murderer based on the witness descriptions?
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