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What fascinates me is the piece of cloth/pouch/whatever that he probably dropped in the vicinity of the Stride murder and which was never noticed by the police or anyone else. Because I think the Ripper came prepared. He took organs from Annie Chapman's body yet there did not seem to be any blood trail in the hallway to the front door, and I very much doubt he dropped a dripping piece of unpleasantness in his jacket pocket if for no other reason than the pocket would start to reek very quickly and wouldn't have been easy to clean. A piece of American cloth would have come in handy here, or any piece of oiled and reinforced cloth/flexible canvas/whatever. But I suspect he dropped that while running from the Stride murder--where he was clearly surprised and could have been caught had the cart fetched up a couple of seconds earlier. So he needs something to convey the organs he takes from Eddowes. The apron is there and handy. But just because it was found in the Goulston Street location, that does not tell us for sure that it was dropped there by intention or even by accident.
Right now there is quite a bit of circular thinking going on in my opinion and it is something like this:
- The piece of apron was found underneath an anti-semitic graffito implicating the Jews in some kind of unspecified nefarious act. So it was placed there for a purpose which was to point the police towards the Jews for the Whitechapel murders. So the graffito was written specifically by the Ripper in order to place the incriminating evidence beneath it.
The apron is irrefutable evidence. Anyone caught with it will go to trial and almost certainly hang. The graffito could have been written by anyone at any time. PC Long says he didn't see either but chances are, the first time through the area, he wasn't looking and who could blame him? And who would expect him to notice one piece of rubbish in a street--hey, a whole district--full of rubbish. Goulston Street is near the market. It would have been much more noticeable if there were not pieces of garbage floating around.
As for why it took so long to get rid of it, I assume there was an contents transfer somewhere and then he made it his business to go for a walk and when no one was looking, chuck that fatal piece of cloth into some dark corner and then keep on walking as fast and as far away as possible. As for the graffito, put yourselves in his position. He has in his hands the instrument of his own demise. How long do you think he would hang around in its proximity? Long enough to fish a handy piece of chalk out of his pocket and compose a graffito blaming someone else? The Ripper is a bright guy. The cloth itself points to the inhabitants of the Goulston Street tenement, all of whom are Jews. No need for anything else.
Right now there is quite a bit of circular thinking going on in my opinion and it is something like this:
- The piece of apron was found underneath an anti-semitic graffito implicating the Jews in some kind of unspecified nefarious act. So it was placed there for a purpose which was to point the police towards the Jews for the Whitechapel murders. So the graffito was written specifically by the Ripper in order to place the incriminating evidence beneath it.
The apron is irrefutable evidence. Anyone caught with it will go to trial and almost certainly hang. The graffito could have been written by anyone at any time. PC Long says he didn't see either but chances are, the first time through the area, he wasn't looking and who could blame him? And who would expect him to notice one piece of rubbish in a street--hey, a whole district--full of rubbish. Goulston Street is near the market. It would have been much more noticeable if there were not pieces of garbage floating around.
As for why it took so long to get rid of it, I assume there was an contents transfer somewhere and then he made it his business to go for a walk and when no one was looking, chuck that fatal piece of cloth into some dark corner and then keep on walking as fast and as far away as possible. As for the graffito, put yourselves in his position. He has in his hands the instrument of his own demise. How long do you think he would hang around in its proximity? Long enough to fish a handy piece of chalk out of his pocket and compose a graffito blaming someone else? The Ripper is a bright guy. The cloth itself points to the inhabitants of the Goulston Street tenement, all of whom are Jews. No need for anything else.
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