All roads lead to Lechmere.

[Hair Bear]

Lechmere’s mother’s first husband was still alive when she married him.

I should hope so, doesn't look good marrying a corpse. (joke)

[Fiver]

How can anyone justify this as a fair-minded approach for a historian to take?

They can't justify it. It's deliberately ignoring inconvenient facts that don't fit the theory. That's "history" the way David Irving writes it.

[John Wheat]

agree Herlock
too much shoehorning. hes a valid suspect without all the shoehorning. and overegging too much of that too! : )

I don't agree there is nothing that makes Lechmere a valid suspect.

[Abby Normal]

They can’t of course Roger but it’s considered justifiable in the world of those trying to shoehorn a case for Lechmere.

agree Herlock
too much shoehorning. hes a valid suspect without all the shoehorning. and overegging too much of that too! : )

[Herlock Sholmes]

Edward Stow makes a very curious statement starting at the 15:16 mark in his latest video, “Jack the Ripper: The Evidence. Part 1.”

"Now, there are various other witnesses that gave times as well, but the only two witnesses we have to synchronize the times for are Paul and Lechmere because they are the two who interacted with each other here (Ed is standing near the crime scene). The others are actually police witnesses."

This is very strangely argued. Why on earth are the other witnesses irrelevant if we are trying to analyze what happened?

Let’s look at the deposition of Police-constable John Thain, 96 J (Morning Advertiser, September 4^th). -- I was on duty in Brady-street on the morning of the murder and passed the end of Buck's-row every thirty minutes. Nothing attracted my attention until 3.45 a.m., when I was signaled by another constable in Buck's-row. I went to him and found him standing by the body of a woman.

So, according to Thain, the body was discovered shortly before 3:45 a.m.---before Robert Paul, quizzed at the inquest over two weeks later, claims he even left for work!

From the deposition of PC Jonas Mizen (Daily News, September 4):“Police constable Mizen said that about a quarter to four o'clock on Friday morning he was at the corner of Hanbury street and Baker's row, when a carman passing by in company with another man said, "You are wanted in Buck's row by a policeman; a woman is lying there." This carman, of course, was Charles Lechmere, “in company with” Robert Paul.

So, according to Mizen, Lechmere and Paul had already left the crime scene and were near the corner of Baker’s Row at around 3.45 a.m.—again, at the very time Robert Paul states he left for work.

Next up we have PC John Neil, who is states he found the body at 3.45 (“Police constable Neil, 79 J, who found the body, reports the time as 3.45”—Daily News, 3 September)

Yet viewers of the video are asked to look only at Paul and Lechmere’s estimated times in complete isolation.

In brief, if the audience ignores three-fifths of the relevant witnesses, there is suddenly a missing seven minutes in Lechmere’s account.

How can anyone justify this as a fair-minded approach for a historian to take?

They can’t of course Roger but it’s considered justifiable in the world of those trying to shoehorn a case for Lechmere.

[rjpalmer]

Edward Stow makes a very curious statement starting at the 15:16 mark in his latest video, “Jack the Ripper: The Evidence. Part 1.”

"Now, there are various other witnesses that gave times as well, but the only two witnesses we have to synchronize the times for are Paul and Lechmere because they are the two who interacted with each other here (Ed is standing near the crime scene). The others are actually police witnesses."

This is very strangely argued. Why on earth are the other witnesses irrelevant if we are trying to analyze what happened?

Let’s look at the deposition of Police-constable John Thain, 96 J (Morning Advertiser, September 4^th). -- I was on duty in Brady-street on the morning of the murder and passed the end of Buck's-row every thirty minutes. Nothing attracted my attention until 3.45 a.m., when I was signaled by another constable in Buck's-row. I went to him and found him standing by the body of a woman.

So, according to Thain, the body was discovered shortly before 3:45 a.m.---before Robert Paul, quizzed at the inquest over two weeks later, claims he even left for work!

From the deposition of PC Jonas Mizen (Daily News, September 4):“Police constable Mizen said that about a quarter to four o'clock on Friday morning he was at the corner of Hanbury street and Baker's row, when a carman passing by in company with another man said, "You are wanted in Buck's row by a policeman; a woman is lying there." This carman, of course, was Charles Lechmere, “in company with” Robert Paul.

So, according to Mizen, Lechmere and Paul had already left the crime scene and were near the corner of Baker’s Row at around 3.45 a.m.—again, at the very time Robert Paul states he left for work.

Next up we have PC John Neil, who is states he found the body at 3.45 (“Police constable Neil, 79 J, who found the body, reports the time as 3.45”—Daily News, 3 September)

Yet viewers of the video are asked to look only at Paul and Lechmere’s estimated times in complete isolation.

In brief, if the audience ignores three-fifths of the relevant witnesses, there is suddenly a missing seven minutes in Lechmere’s account.

How can anyone justify this as a fair-minded approach for a historian to take?

[jmenges]

Sigh…

Can we draw the line at accusing each other of murder?

Thanks,

JM

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

AbbyNormal did explain this. You must have missed it.

He killed someone, heard footsteps 130 yards away and froze.

This happened in the early part of 2021.

Utter nonsense Fleetwood. He was innocently on his way to work at the time. But...did he try to deceive us with the name Abby Normal, a name he never used in any other context?

[Fleetwood Mac]

If you have already answered this, my apologies, but what personal "similar" experience have you had where you just killed someone, then heard footsteps 130 yards away, and couldn't help but freeze?

AbbyNormal did explain this. You must have missed it.

He killed someone, heard footsteps 130 yards away and froze.

This happened in the early part of 2021.

[Hair Bear]

good post. re flight or flight. theres also a reaction called freeze. i think if lech was the killer he was caught unawares and decided to stay put bluff it out and as you say, find out what paul had seen. ive had a personal experience similar.
.

If you have already answered this, my apologies, but what personal "similar" experience have you had where you just killed someone, then heard footsteps 130 yards away, and couldn't help but freeze?

[FISHY1118]

Having read this entire thread , i would have to say the last two posts on the subject are probably the best two. if Lechmere indeed was the JTR then after each of the remaining murders he would most certainly come under more and more scrunity from the police. Which he was not .

[Aethelwulf]

I think it is abundantly clear to the majority that Lechmere was just a man on his way to work who found a body.

All the so-called ''evidence'' against Lechmere comes from coincidental geography, stretched timings and spinning conversations and their order to suit.

As I have said before, show me some evidence he had the capacity to do it and I will happily rethink. You can cherry pick individual cases of seemingly normal people being nutters all you like – I am sure if you look at the GLOBAL population of cases Lechmere would fall in the ‘less likely’ grouping. Doesn't rule him out of course, but in the light of the fact that there is absolutely nil, zero, nothing to implicate Lechmere, I think it is important.

[ohrocky]

Here's what happened to me.........

A couple of years ago, late one cold winters evening I was returning home from a late football match. Turning the corner into my quiet, tree-lined steet I saw "something" up against the churchyard wall. I approached and saw that it was a young woman lying there, motionless. I didn't know whether she had been attacked, had a medical episode, or had collapsed through drink and / or drugs.

I didn't want to be observed touching the young woman or her posessions so moved a couple of yards away from her. Whilst contemplating what to do I saw a woman passing on her way home from a late shift so I attracted her attention and asked her over. Being a female she had no compunction touching the young lady and eventually rousing her and rifling through her handbag. A nearly empty bottle of vodka was found in her bag so the cause of her collapse soon became apparent.

The rest of the tale doesn't really matter. But I now realise that the way I reacted on finding a woman's body out on the street was not too disimilar at all from the way Lechmere reacted on finding Polly Nichols.

The name issue is a total red herring. In the UK it is not unlawful to go by whatever name you choose provided it is not done with the intention to defraud. On another thread I posted a quote from an MJK thread (originally posted by Wickerman) where a witness gave a name but said it wasn't her real name and that not many people went by their real name. This would suggest that it was certainly not unusual for people to use names other than their registered or "official name".

The Scobie comment has long been used to support the idea of putting the noose around Lechmere's neck. As has been covered already, there is some dispute regarding the content of the bundle presented to Scobie from which he came to his conclusions and also how his interview was edited. If theories and supposition are presented as irrefutable facts then there is scope for the wrong conclusion to be drawn. THis impasse will only ever be resolved if the prosecutor ie Fisherman puts Mr Scobie's bundle and a full transcript of the interview in the public domain.

[Elamarna]

Exactly like Robert Paul.

Of course trafgic flow is irrelvant when there is a pavement.
Plus we are taught if there is no pavement to walk towards on coming traffic, so we can see it coming.

and he enters from the north, will exit north too. why would anyone cross the road, not once but twice?

steve

[Fiver]

Consider his testimony about the side of the street from which he approached the body being opposite to the typical flow of traffic.

Exactly like Robert Paul.