Lechmere versus Richardson.

[MrBarnett]

So what? There is nothing to say Lechmere in particular was the Ripper.

I was answering your post.

The old chestnut about a possible missing ‘Cross’ file is trotted out time and time again.

[John Wheat]

I was answering your post.

The old chestnut about a possible missing ‘Cross’ file is trotted out time and time again.

It might be true though a file on Lechmere may have been lost. Exactly what is there to say Lechmere was the Ripper? A name that could be easily traced back to him? Finding a body? Not a lot really.

[Mark J D]

... Swanson’s 18/10/88 report ... only mentions Lechmere in passing as one of two carmen who found the body on their way to work.

Lechmere attaching himself to Paul really paid off big-time, didn't it...?

M.

[Darryl Kenyon]

Lechmere attaching himself to Paul really paid off big-time, didn't it...?

M.

Or by 18/10 he could have been checked out and well , checked out

[Darryl Kenyon]

Where would dear old John Richardson have likely been found in the wee hours of his day off...? I think we should be told...

M.

And you have evidence that Lech was were on his days off ?

[Aethelwulf]

It might be true though a file on Lechmere may have been lost. Exactly what is there to say Lechmere was the Ripper? A name that could be easily traced back to him? Finding a body? Not a lot really.

I think you've summed up the thousands of post on lech very well in those couple of lines

[Mark J D]

And you have evidence that Lech was were on his days off ?

-- Instead of wasting time trolling me, shouldn't you be looking for information about whether John Richardson had a parent and/or step-parent and/or child living within a couple of minutes' walking distance of Berner Street? Aren't you curious to know? Even if you aren't, surely you're dying to make use of whatever comes of the simple statistical likelihood that someone named as a witness will have had relatives nearer Dutfield's Yard than Lechmere's were?

M.

[MrBarnett]

-- Instead of wasting time trolling me, shouldn't you be looking for information about whether John Richardson had a parent and/or step-parent and/or child living within a couple of minutes' walking distance of Berner Street? Aren't you even curious to know?

M.

And did he have a connection to Pinchin Street…?

[Abby Normal]

and does his anchor points of home, work and family encompass the rippers killing field?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Lechmere attaching himself to Paul really paid off big-time, didn't it...?

M.

So we have to ask how Lechmere, on the spur of the moment, came to believe that he and the man approaching (Paul) could go for a Constable and that he could then have separated himself from Paul so that he could misinform Mizen without Paul hearing? This makes absolutely no sense. We keep hearing of, on the one hand the cool, calculating Lechmere yet on the other hand he’s an idiot. There’s absolutely no way that he could have ‘planned’ to lie his way past Mizen and yet this claim is made.

[MrBarnett]

It might be true though a file on Lechmere may have been lost. Exactly what is there to say Lechmere was the Ripper? A name that could be easily traced back to him? Finding a body? Not a lot really.

It might be true that a file was created, not mentioned in the index or by Swanson and then lost. Anything’s possible.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Personally I think that this geographical stuff is entirely irrelevant and a red herring. He was a local, familiar with the area like thousands of others. So what? How many others tangentially involved in this case, on further research, would be found to have an Auntie Mary that lived a few streets away from Berner Street and a childhood best mate who live near Mitre Square or that he used to work not far from Dorset Street? Most of these are undiscoverable facts of course but I’d say that it would be a safe bet that these kinds of ‘connections’ could be made.

[Herlock Sholmes]

So, even though I think don’t think that Richardson was the ripper, I’d say that he has more going for him as a suspect that Lechmere. So why are some so enthusiastic about him? Im not saying that he shouldn’t have been looked at but I look at everything that’s proposed against him and it doesn’t raise an eyebrow. It’s the confidence in him as a suspect that I can’t understand.

[MrBarnett]

Personally I think that this geographical stuff is entirely irrelevant and a red herring. He was a local, familiar with the area like thousands of others. So what? How many others tangentially involved in this case, on further research, would be found to have an Auntie Mary that lived a few streets away from Berner Street and a childhood best mate who live near Mitre Square or that he used to work not far from Dorset Street? Most of these are undiscoverable facts of course but I’d say that it would be a safe bet that these kinds of ‘connections’ could be made.

The ball’s in your court, Mike.

What were Richardson’s connections to St Georges?

With Lech we’re not talking about an ‘Aunty Mary’ connection, we’re talking about where his mother had lived for around 30 years, where he himself had grown up and where his eldest daughter still lived.

Within weeks of him moving away from SGE and using a new route to work through Whitechapel and Spitalfields bodies started piling up in Whitechapel and Spitalfields.

[John Wheat]

So, even though I think don’t think that Richardson was the ripper, I’d say that he has more going for him as a suspect that Lechmere. So why are some so enthusiastic about him? Im not saying that he shouldn’t have been looked at but I look at everything that’s proposed against him and it doesn’t raise an eyebrow. It’s the confidence in him as a suspect that I can’t understand.

I'm of the same opinion as regards Lechmere Herlock.