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This from the coroner's inquest on MJK:
[Coroner] Did she say anything ? - She said "Good night, I am going to have a song." As I went in she sang "A violet I plucked from my mother's grave when a boy." I remained a quarter of an hour in my room and went out. Deceased was still singing at one o'clock when I returned. I remained in the room for a minute to warm my hands as it was raining, and went out again. She was singing still, and I returned to my room at three o'clock. The light was then out and there was no noise.
Now here's something I don't think we've ever discussed and I think it merits discussion even though it may not shed much light on the crime. It strikes me that MJK sang for a hell of a long time before she shut up. A hell of a long time. Even given that she sounds like she was as drunk as a skunk. And Lizzie Prater, who claims to have been outside Millers Court chatting to McCarthy at the same time Cox was in her room doesn't hear a thing. I don't get it. It's possible that Cox has mistaken the day but I doubt it. Chances are she was spoken to pretty quickly after the murder was discovered. She did live across the passageway. I am not suggesting that Blotchy killed MJK and imitated her singing to fudge the time of death or whatever--although I guess that is remotely possible.
If MJK did in fact sing that song for that long, then I suspect the crime was committed--a la Murder on the Orient Express--by all the other outraged and exhausted inhabitants of Millers Court. But I don't think she sang for that long. So why did Cox think she did?
[Coroner] Did she say anything ? - She said "Good night, I am going to have a song." As I went in she sang "A violet I plucked from my mother's grave when a boy." I remained a quarter of an hour in my room and went out. Deceased was still singing at one o'clock when I returned. I remained in the room for a minute to warm my hands as it was raining, and went out again. She was singing still, and I returned to my room at three o'clock. The light was then out and there was no noise.
Now here's something I don't think we've ever discussed and I think it merits discussion even though it may not shed much light on the crime. It strikes me that MJK sang for a hell of a long time before she shut up. A hell of a long time. Even given that she sounds like she was as drunk as a skunk. And Lizzie Prater, who claims to have been outside Millers Court chatting to McCarthy at the same time Cox was in her room doesn't hear a thing. I don't get it. It's possible that Cox has mistaken the day but I doubt it. Chances are she was spoken to pretty quickly after the murder was discovered. She did live across the passageway. I am not suggesting that Blotchy killed MJK and imitated her singing to fudge the time of death or whatever--although I guess that is remotely possible.
If MJK did in fact sing that song for that long, then I suspect the crime was committed--a la Murder on the Orient Express--by all the other outraged and exhausted inhabitants of Millers Court. But I don't think she sang for that long. So why did Cox think she did?
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