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Annie Chapman vanishes from sight around 1.45 am. She re-appears, dead at some time around 6.00 am. Davies, who found her body, deposes that he woke up via Spitalfields clock at 5.45 am. Had a cup of tea. Then went into the backyard and found her body. Richardson who rented a large part of the house deposes that her grandson went down at 6.00 am to find out what all the noise was about and told his grandmother that there was a woman murdered in the yard.
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Davies says he was woken by Spitalfields Church Clock chiming the three-quarter. He has a cup of tea. And then goes out into the backyard, presumably to use the privy. Davies does not have access to a high-speed fast-boiling electric kettle. It's possible that his wife had gotten up earlier and banked-up the fire, but even so, water has to boil, tea has to be made and drunk. I don't think there is enough time for Davies to do all of this and then pull his clothes on and go out to the backyard, find the body and set up a hue and cry, and get others back there to bustle around in time for Mrs Richardson to be woken by the noise at 6.00 am. And we know he didn't, because James Kent testifies that he didn't arrive at the packers where he worked until 6.10 am and it was after that when Davies came around calling for help. Inspector Chandler says that it was 6.10 am when he saw men running to tell the police that another woman had been murdered. He accompanied them back to Hanbury Street.
So how do we deal with this? Chandler has a watch, I'm sure, so knows the time he saw Davies and the others trying to get help. But his watch may not be exactly correct. Davies tells the time by Spitalfields Church Clock and he's probably correct. Richardson says she was woken up at around 6.00 am but that's impossible. It's likely she was woken around 6.15 am and we don't know how she knew the time. She may have had a watch that's 15 minutes out, but I suspect it's more likely she also heard Spitalfields Church Clock and made a mistake about the chime.
The point I'm laboriously making is that it's very possible that Mrs Long was also mistaken about the time she saw the couple outside #29. She may have heard the quarter chime rather than the half. It's equally possible that Cadoche may have gotten his time wrong as well, and that the noises he heard were later. No one has come forward to say that they were in the backyards of #27 or #31 and were responsible for the noises that Cadoche heard.
I don't think we can trust any of these witnesses times to be accurate. So I think it's entirely likely that the couple Mrs Long saw 'at around 5.30 am' were responsible for the noises Albert Cadoche heard 'around 5.20 am'. If that's the case, then Long is an eye-witness who should be paid attention to...
I'd like to discuss this.
Davies says he was woken by Spitalfields Church Clock chiming the three-quarter. He has a cup of tea. And then goes out into the backyard, presumably to use the privy. Davies does not have access to a high-speed fast-boiling electric kettle. It's possible that his wife had gotten up earlier and banked-up the fire, but even so, water has to boil, tea has to be made and drunk. I don't think there is enough time for Davies to do all of this and then pull his clothes on and go out to the backyard, find the body and set up a hue and cry, and get others back there to bustle around in time for Mrs Richardson to be woken by the noise at 6.00 am. And we know he didn't, because James Kent testifies that he didn't arrive at the packers where he worked until 6.10 am and it was after that when Davies came around calling for help. Inspector Chandler says that it was 6.10 am when he saw men running to tell the police that another woman had been murdered. He accompanied them back to Hanbury Street.
So how do we deal with this? Chandler has a watch, I'm sure, so knows the time he saw Davies and the others trying to get help. But his watch may not be exactly correct. Davies tells the time by Spitalfields Church Clock and he's probably correct. Richardson says she was woken up at around 6.00 am but that's impossible. It's likely she was woken around 6.15 am and we don't know how she knew the time. She may have had a watch that's 15 minutes out, but I suspect it's more likely she also heard Spitalfields Church Clock and made a mistake about the chime.
The point I'm laboriously making is that it's very possible that Mrs Long was also mistaken about the time she saw the couple outside #29. She may have heard the quarter chime rather than the half. It's equally possible that Cadoche may have gotten his time wrong as well, and that the noises he heard were later. No one has come forward to say that they were in the backyards of #27 or #31 and were responsible for the noises that Cadoche heard.
I don't think we can trust any of these witnesses times to be accurate. So I think it's entirely likely that the couple Mrs Long saw 'at around 5.30 am' were responsible for the noises Albert Cadoche heard 'around 5.20 am'. If that's the case, then Long is an eye-witness who should be paid attention to...
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