Well, whaddoyaknow - you are absolutely right!
Then again, she WAS the murdered woman Kelly, right?
She was also "the deceased", "the latest victim", "the dead woman", and a myriad other synonyms that Hutchinson could have chosen to describe her, but he just just happened to pick the exact phrase used in an account that appeared in a freely accessible newspaper account from the 10th November, and which was identical to his in terms of specific events and their chronology. He also stated that he "met the murdered woman" - a phrase that also appeared in the Daily News account and nowhere else.
I never suggested that the expressions used were "complicated" or "illogical". I'm saying there were a great many suitable alternatives to that particular expression that Hutchinson could have used. It sounds as though you're denying even this, and suggesting both parties had no choice but to describe her as "the murdered woman Kelly", but since that's so obviously not the case...
We either have an almighty "coincidence" here (another one), or Hutchinson's account was a fairly transparent copy-cat job of the unattributed Daily News article, and one in which he failed to alter the specific phrasing used by the reporter with regard to Kelly.
Being the Googler that I am, I decided to take a look at the phrase "The murdered man Jones". It turned out that there were 1790 hits.
I wonder what he did to deserve that? Mal-googling perhaps?
Google ye not, Fisherman, unless you can be sure the results illustrate your point successfully.
Ben, alcoholists - and there is every chance that Kelly was one, or en route to becoming one - will drink no matter what mood they are in. And prostitutes would have been treated by their customers, more than likely.
There's this fascinating notion doing the rounds that Kelly's occupancy of a tiny hovel on the worst street in London elevated her way above her lodging house peers, even to that of the "upper-lower-classes" according to Jon's quaint new construct. Kelly belonged to the lowest of the low, class-wise, and an "upgrade" from a dodgy doss house on a bad street to a dodgy hovel on a terrible street would not have changed that, and nor would it have prompted her to adopt a "slummers-only" policy with her work.
Could Kelly have charged slightly extra because she was a bit younger and prettier? Yes, maybe, but not dizzy sums that were likely to exclude the overwhelming majority client base, i.e. poor, working class locals.
Yeah - all of them, supposedly? No prostitute took any punter home, no punter was seduced by a girl smiling and flirting, no sex affair was accompanied by a song that year - not one.
Regards,
Ben
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