Why Cross Was Almost Certainly Innocent

[drstrange169]

And I just checked, was the Times ad you are referring to the one I posted a few years ago? If so, that wasn't for Brown's Yard.

[chubbs]

Hi Chubbs,

The question is not where the gas lamps were placed, but which ones were working on the night. In that regard we have only the sworn testimony of PC Neil, who stated that there was only one gas light working, and that it was at the end of the row some distance away. He was there, so who can argue against him?

Cheers, George

Thanks. That's what I thought.

[chubbs]

Right...

Charles Cross told the inquest on Polly Nichols that Robert Paul had said, "I think she is breathing, but very little if she is." Robert Paul also told the inquest this, when he gave testimony.

So, if he was the murderer, why on earth would Charles Cross find a policeman within 4 minutes and tell him to get down there? He wouldn't, because a living victim could be very dangerous to the murderer. That's yet another reason why he wasn't the murderer.

[Geddy2112]

Right...

Charles Cross told the inquest on Polly Nichols that Robert Paul had said, "I think she is breathing, but very little if she is." Robert Paul also told the inquest this, when he gave testimony.

So, if he was the murderer, why on earth would Charles Cross find a policeman within 4 minutes and tell him to get down there? He wouldn't, because a living victim could be very dangerous to the murderer. That's yet another reason why he wasn't the murderer.

...and why did he not silence Paul and finish her off. The more you look into the Lechmere Theory the more you see it's a huge pile of horse muck.

[chubbs]

...and why did he not silence Paul and finish her off. The more you look into the Lechmere Theory the more you see it's a huge pile of horse muck.

Maybe it's because he was just a poor carman on his way to work, who was left thinking, "Bugger, I wish it had been a tarpaulin."?

[chubbs]

RESULTS OF THE WALKING EXPERIMENT
8pm and I've just got back from my night-time countryside walk. Tonight I did an experiment. I hung back about 40 yards from my wife & son, then followed on. I COULD NOT SEE THEM AND I COULD NOT HEAR THEM. I have 20/20 vision (told this by the optician at Specsavers 2 days ago!) and my hearing is good. We were all wearing heavy walking boots and the surface was concrete.

There is absolutely no reason , neither visual nor auditory, for Robert Paul to have been aware of Charles Cross if both were walking along Bucks Row, 40+ yards apart. If you don't believe me, try it for yourself.

So all those people who have invented the theory that Paul would have been aware of Cross can pipe down now, can't they?

[Mark J D]

The business did not appear in the 1888 Post Office Directory, so it would appear that the business could have been defunct at the time of Polly's murder.

George, old bean: if the stable yard was closed down when Polly was murdered, how was the boy Green working there?

Bests,

Mark D.