Originally posted by Trevor Marriott
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I agree.
That was the final point I made in # 340 in this same thread, and I did have in mind your point that Swanson could hardly have known about the identification without Macnaghten knowing about it too.
Does your point that Reid even asks him (Anderson) to prove what he had written come from the same interview as the one in which Reid condemned Anderson's remarks?
You also wrote: Aaron Kosminski was originally found by Martin Fido and eliminated soon after by Martin as his antecedents did not match those of the Kosmniski mentioned in the MM.
I do recall Fido's change of mind but I don't recall what he wrote about antecedents.
Can you elaborate?
One of the quotes from Anderson which figures in the discussion from years ago to which I refer is that the suspect had been safely caged in an Asylum
(Criminals and Crime, 1907)
One does wonder why Anderson and Swanson would have contemplated bringing charges against someone who had presumably been certified.
Would that have been a normal procedure?
Jonathan H wrote:
Primary sources from 1892 arguably show Anderson with no knowledge as yet of 'Kosminski', let alone of Aaron Kosminski -- let alone about a positive witness identification which turned a debacle into a near-triumph...
I wonder which source he had in mind.
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