Originally posted by Sunny Delight
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Here though the journalist remarks on what occurred in Dorset St. leading up to the murder, bear in mind this was published in the US on the 10th.
The Boston Daily Globe.
London, Nov. 10.-The excitement here this morning over the lengthening series of Whitechapel atrocities is more intense than ever. The papers are having enormous sales, though they contain little besides speculation and rumors. Beyond the broad facts of this ninth atrocity, the police are endeavoring to keep everything secret.
The one question in everybody's mind is, Can the murderer of Mary Jane McCarthy or Kelly be found?
This is the problem before the London police, and the impression prevails that it will be answered negatively. But if so public indignation is likely to culminate in an overturning of the present police authorities.
Yet the Whitechapel monster left more tracks behind him in this than in any other previous butchery. He was seen by several persons.
As he was entering the small court which led to the dirty room where the crime was committed, both the man and Mary Jane stopped and laughed at a large poster which offers £100 reward for the Whitechapel murderer. A number of people who live in a lodging-house across the way noted the incident, and give this description of the man: About 30 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, wore speckled trousers and a black coat and respectable in appearance.
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As the above was published three days before Hutchinson's story was made public, it can only refer to the sighting described by Sarah Lewis.
There was a 'wanted' poster very close to Millers Court passage offering a reward for the murderer.
The witnesses referred to must have been in Crossingham's, directly opposite Millers Court.
Unfortunately no time is given, so we cannot be sure if this a sighting of Astrachan with Kelly about 2:30, or a sighting of the Britannia-man with Kelly after 3:00?
The estimated age (about 30) could be either, the estimated height (5ft 6 inch) also could be either.
Hutchinson described Astrachan's trousers as 'dark'.
Lewis described the Britannia-man's trousers as 'dark pepper & salt', whereas Kennedy said 'dark mixture'.
This might suggest the sighting is of the Britannia-man?, yet we know it was Hutchinson who said Astrachan & Kelly stopped and laughed, before they walked up the court.
What do you think?
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