Originally posted by Peter Griffith aka gryff
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The timeline document on this site states:
SUN, SEP 30, 1888 c.1:40am -- PC Harvey went down Duke St and into Church Passage as far as Mitre Sq. He did not look into the square and neither saw nor heard anything.
It's frustrating that he didn't look into the square, obviously, because it's highly likely he might have seen something in that dark south-west corner, where the Ripper had probably already murdered Catherine Eddowes and was in the process of mutilating her.
I'm not great at calculating distances, but is it about 30 feet?
The view from the top of the passage to the murder spot can be seen here in this photograph
which is from this page: http://www.casebook.org/victorian_lo...s.w-mitre.html
Eddowes and the Ripper would have been just in front of the man on the bench.
My guess is Jack would have heard PC Harvey coming and made his escape at this point, or stopped and waited till Harvey turned back and then scarpered, avoiding PC Watkins by 3-4 minutes.
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