Hi All,
It mustn't be forgotten that while Hutch came forward late, other potentially important male witnesses didn't come forward at all.
If Hutch was the ripper, every other person of interest who failed to come forward to clear himself must have been innocent - including Blotchy for instance. But it's not really all that surprising that men would not want to be associated with these prostitute murders if they could avoid it.
If Hutch did recognise himself as the man Lewis saw (and I still don't know how he is meant to have tracked her and her story down at the Town Hall - it seems a very loose theoretical possibility to me) he seems to have been the only one on the planet at the time. If the police missed the connection, so did Lewis herself, and Kennedy, and all those other women she apparently shared her story with. Unaccountably, none of them read in their newspaper that this man Hutchinson was watching the court, waiting for someone to come out, and remembered the man Lewis had seen doing exactly the same thing? Lewis had done her duty at the inquest. If she later read Hutchinson's account I find it hard to believe she would not have gone back to the police to tell them this must be her loitering man, so they could cross him off their list of people to identify. Not only that, but the police would then have had confirmation of Hutch's presence, and couldn't have dismissed him as having no connection.
I'm now wondering if the police were furious when Hutch's story appeared in the papers, and sought to repair the damage by feeding them the line about a 'reduced importance' (and possibly the idea that it had actually been discredited), to give the ripper a false sense of security in the event that he was indeed the man Hutch had described in so much detail.
Love,
Caz
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It mustn't be forgotten that while Hutch came forward late, other potentially important male witnesses didn't come forward at all.
If Hutch was the ripper, every other person of interest who failed to come forward to clear himself must have been innocent - including Blotchy for instance. But it's not really all that surprising that men would not want to be associated with these prostitute murders if they could avoid it.
If Hutch did recognise himself as the man Lewis saw (and I still don't know how he is meant to have tracked her and her story down at the Town Hall - it seems a very loose theoretical possibility to me) he seems to have been the only one on the planet at the time. If the police missed the connection, so did Lewis herself, and Kennedy, and all those other women she apparently shared her story with. Unaccountably, none of them read in their newspaper that this man Hutchinson was watching the court, waiting for someone to come out, and remembered the man Lewis had seen doing exactly the same thing? Lewis had done her duty at the inquest. If she later read Hutchinson's account I find it hard to believe she would not have gone back to the police to tell them this must be her loitering man, so they could cross him off their list of people to identify. Not only that, but the police would then have had confirmation of Hutch's presence, and couldn't have dismissed him as having no connection.
I'm now wondering if the police were furious when Hutch's story appeared in the papers, and sought to repair the damage by feeding them the line about a 'reduced importance' (and possibly the idea that it had actually been discredited), to give the ripper a false sense of security in the event that he was indeed the man Hutch had described in so much detail.
Love,
Caz
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