First of all -Happy New Year everyone !
I've only just had time to look in on this thread (and no time to look at any other -YET).
What if Hutch didn't really KNOW what the weather was like on the night of Mary's murder, since he had spent most of the rainiest part in her room, by a roaring, crackling fire, with a coat over the window ?
Let's imagine that he hd spent an earlier part of the same evening in a warm pub, and the moment that he ventured out to 'loiter', was when the rain had
petered out (logical, surely).
I think that in a 'creative' spurt on another thread, I wrote a scenario where Hutch DIDN'T sleep at the Victoria Home (I had him sleeping in Itchy Park, talking to no one, and heading AWAY from Whitechapel) ; it was impossible for me to write, given that Hutch lived in a crowded city and MJK's murder was a (the ?) main news story, that he remained unaware of the murder.
The fact that it did coincide with the Lord Mayor's Show, would appear to
'fix' the date for anyone -let alone a personal friend of the victim.
I've only just had time to look in on this thread (and no time to look at any other -YET).
What if Hutch didn't really KNOW what the weather was like on the night of Mary's murder, since he had spent most of the rainiest part in her room, by a roaring, crackling fire, with a coat over the window ?
Let's imagine that he hd spent an earlier part of the same evening in a warm pub, and the moment that he ventured out to 'loiter', was when the rain had
petered out (logical, surely).
I think that in a 'creative' spurt on another thread, I wrote a scenario where Hutch DIDN'T sleep at the Victoria Home (I had him sleeping in Itchy Park, talking to no one, and heading AWAY from Whitechapel) ; it was impossible for me to write, given that Hutch lived in a crowded city and MJK's murder was a (the ?) main news story, that he remained unaware of the murder.
The fact that it did coincide with the Lord Mayor's Show, would appear to
'fix' the date for anyone -let alone a personal friend of the victim.
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