The Birmingham suspect : Lewis or Hutch's ?

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Dunno, Redbundy.

But I wish there was another White's report saying :"He's not the man I talked to in the alley"...

In fact, I'm selling the theory that White was sent to Birmingham as an eye-witness.

The medical man that left Whitechapel to doss in Birmingham could well be the "student or professional man who had seen better days", couldn't he ?

More seriously, I guess this suspicion is a mixture of Lewis Gentleman and of the old medical trail. A waste of time dated 17 November.

[RedBundy13]

Who?

Did they mention any names by chance??

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ST JAMES GAZETTE
19th NOVEMBER 1888

THE EAST-END MURDERS.

On Saturday afternoon the Birmingham detectives informed the police at Scotland-yard that a man suspected of being concerned in the Whitechapel murders had left that town by train for London. Detectives Leach and White, of the Criminal Investigation Department, proceeded to Willesden junction and Euston respectively, and at the latter station Inspector White detained the person in question, and conveyed him to Scotland-yard. It was stated that he had been staying at a common lodging-house in Birmingham since Monday last. The suspected person was a medical man who was some years ago practising in London, He was of gentlemanly appearance and manners and somewhat resembled the description given by witnesses at the late inquest. After being closely questioned as to his whereabouts at the time of the murders, and supplying a satisfactory account of himself, he was liberated.