"And if Kosminski murdered Eddowes it doesn't prove he murdered any of the others."
No indeed. And even if it were proved that he murdered all of them, that still doesn't prove that he was Jack the Ripper, because they might not have been Ripper victims; Jack's real victims might have been other women, whose murders are either unrecorded or not attributed to him.
“I am much interested in the subject now before us, and I have come to the conclusion on hearing your arguments that the Homeric Poems were not written by Homer, but by another person of the same name.”
No indeed. And even if it were proved that he murdered all of them, that still doesn't prove that he was Jack the Ripper, because they might not have been Ripper victims; Jack's real victims might have been other women, whose murders are either unrecorded or not attributed to him.
“I am much interested in the subject now before us, and I have come to the conclusion on hearing your arguments that the Homeric Poems were not written by Homer, but by another person of the same name.”
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