Originally posted by NotBlamedForNothing
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A bit like Schwartz misunderstanding the direction of the highly charged "Lipski!"
I wasn't really referring to Fanny's reliability, but to the fact that she admitted to hearing and seeing very little of any real evidential value during that entire half hour: she heard heavy footsteps between 12.30 and 12.45; and saw a man with a black bag between 12.45 and 1am. That was pretty much it, until she heard a pony and cart shortly before the sounds of the commotion in and around the yard. Not her fault at all, and she had to estimate the times and the intervals just like anyone else in her situation.
Incidentally, what a stroke of luck for Louis D, if he lied about his arrival time and delayed raising the alarm for up to twenty minutes, that someone else's pony and cart should have been audible to Fanny at a time which was consistent with Louis acting immediately on his grim discovery. Or did luck have nothing to do with it? Did the crafty so-and-so wait for Fanny to lock up and prepare for bed, then take his pony and cart round the block, so she would hear him coming and assume it was for the first time that night?
Today's theorists only get to play around with the comings and goings, adding or taking away at their leisure, because Fanny managed to miss so much of the known action, through no fault of her own.
It was not my argument that she was out on her doorstep for almost the entire half hour, making her not only appear like a 'doorstep dwelling busybody', but a particularly ineffectual one at that.
Is that how long it would take? So tell us how long Stride had been standing in the gateway, prior to Schwartz turning into Berner street. Then tell us how long she remained at the gateway after BS had left the scene. Or was BS the murderer? Apparently you know the answer, because it was apparently all over in the time it would take to take a pee.
Love,
Caz
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