So if you live in Bethnal Green, you won´t kill in Whitechapel?

[Batman]

There we go again. Nobody said he needed to, what is said is that he CHOSE to. If that could sink in, it would be awfully nice.
He could run. He did not. He chose to stay.

He stayed because he had found a body and wanted to draw other witness attention to it, as many, if not all the other witnesses in the C5 did also (but Crow didn't for Tabram).

That is the reason for staying. He chose to do what they also did. Wait for someone to also aid in help.

It is simply inexplicable that the murderer needed to stay there with someone coming in the distance.

It IS explicable that witness should wait for someone else to help.

[Sam Flynn]

I have been told so many times that there were thousands of dwellers in Whitechapel who were as good or better suspects as Lechmere

No, you have NOT been told this - not even once. Stick to the facts.

You've been told that, among the many thousands of men who actually lived in the area, it is statistically inevitable that scores of them would have made better suspects than Cross, or many other named suspects for that matter.

[Darryl Kenyon]

I am going to have to disagree with you Fish. It doesn't matter how many entrances Pickfords had at night. There would almost certainly be a night watchman, at least in a company like that. Cross turning up at that time of a morning would almost certainly be asked why, and that's if the night watchman or whoever stopped him knew him. Was it 200 or at least dozens were employed. For Cross to go there uninvited or unknown without some really good reason he would be taking one hell of a risk.

[Fisherman]

I know, but it`s my job to make it difficult for you

And a grand job you do of it...

[Jon Guy]

Well... if you promise never to do it again!

Of course ... ;-)

I was providing a generalized picture of things, Jon, which I suspect you will be aware of. I have been told so many times that there were thousands of dwellers in Whitechapel who were as good or better suspects as Lechmere, and since they must all have been on the streets to be viable as competitors, I thought it would be useful to point out what really applies.

I know, but it`s my job to make it difficult for you