Could the Police Really Have Kept Kosminski's Incarceration a Secret?

[lynn cates]

under wraps

Hello CD. Good idea for a thread.

In broad outline, I agree; however, HM government did a fair job of keeping the truth about Frank Millen and the Jubilee dynamite plot under wraps--until about the 21 st C.

Cheers.
LC

[c.d.]

I have always felt that Kosminski's incarceration and the apparent ability of the police to keep it secret flies in the face of human nature. It is hard to believe that the police simply put him in an asylum, shook hands all around and then went off for a few pints. You would expect a steady stream of Scotland Yard detectives in and out of Colney Hatch to question him as well as simply wanting to see "Jack the Ripper." Would they have informed the asylum administrators of who they had in their possession? Would the asylum guards eventually have caught on and started spreading rumors? Would someone in the know ever have had a few pints too many and spilled the beans?

It just seems to be that the bigger the secret the harder it is to keep.

What do you think?

c.d.