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[Fisherman]

Read it again, Fish - it says that the lodging house was well-lighted, that's all. It says nothing about Dorset Street outside, where Mr Wideawake was stationed.

So the lights were on the inside only?

I donīt think so. It is a known fact that Dorset Street was a relatively well-lit street, mostly due to the many lights outside (predominantly) the lodging houses.

The idea that the lodging house would be lit up inside throughout the night is not a very likely one - if you ask me, that is.

[DJA]

She was Christened Mary Ann Kelly.

[Pierre]

Make it easier?

You wrote Mary Ann. You must have meant Mary Jane.

Pierre

[DJA]

Who is "Mary Kelly"?

Make it easier?

[Pierre]

Read it again, Fish - it says that the lodging house was well-lighted, that's all. It says nothing about Dorset Street outside, where Mr Wideawake was stationed.

OK, so that was the issue. Got it.

Pierre

[Sam Flynn]

Well, well...! So the killer purportedly placed himself at a well lighted place

Read it again, Fish - it says that the lodging house was well-lighted, that's all. It says nothing about Dorset Street outside, where Mr Wideawake was stationed.

[Pierre]

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The essence here is that I do not think that a careful killer would have employed a brightly lit entrance to monitor Millers Court from.

Hi,

So where did you get that idea from?

Regards Pierre

[Fisherman]

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Well, well...! So the killer purportedly placed himself at a well lighted place, hoping for people to pass by, getting a really good look at him?
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Hi Fisherman,

What do you mean?

Regards Pierre

I was being slightly provocative, Pierre. Has to do with old disagreements - long story.

The essence here is that I do not think that a careful killer would have employed a brightly lit entrance to monitor Millers Court from.

[Pierre]

Hope to get my Movie started one day.

Like to get it right.

One of three areas I've not gone into accurately before.

Know why so many inhabitants of Miller's Court knew Mary Ann Kelly?

Who is "Mary Ann Kelly"?

[DJA]

Hi,

Exactly why are you interested in the archway?

Regards Pierre

Hope to get my Movie started one day.

Like to get it right.

One of three areas I've not gone into accurately before.

Know why so many inhabitants of Miller's Court knew Mary Ann Kelly?

[Pierre]

Yep. Single gate. Could have been one at both ends.

Google will give you "your" photo,taken the Year after McCarthy left, and an early drawing.

The backyard was not residential initially.

House proper was accessed from the front door.

The loft from the archway.

Back parlor or servants quarter from beyond the archway.

My doorways are 2 foot 6.

Hi,

Exactly why are you interested in the archway?

Regards Pierre

[Pierre]

[QUOTE=Fisherman;361814]Well, well...! So the killer purportedly placed himself at a well lighted place, hoping for people to pass by, getting a really good look at him?
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Hi Fisherman,

What do you mean?

Regards Pierre

[Fisherman]

Interesting, Jon: "Opposite the court is a very large lodging-house, of a somewhat inferior character. This house is well lighted and people hang about it nearly all night."

Come in, Mr Wideawake, your time is up!

Well, well...! So the killer purportedly placed himself at a well lighted place, hoping for people to pass by, getting a really good look at him?
Once I decided that this man was in all probability not George Hutchinson, I kept the door ajar for him possibly having been the killer.
That door just closed a significant bit more.

[Wickerman]

At this moment I am looking in my book of the 'London of Jack the Ripper' page 138, which contains a photo of 26 and 27 Dorset St with the archway between them as photographed by Leonard Matters in the summer of 1928.

That archway looks incredibly narrow. It, and the passage, were supposedly 2 feet 10 ins wide, (according to the Whitechapel Board of Works Annual Report of 1878) and if it once had a gate it must only have been a single one.

I know it's forty years later but the brickwork of the front of number 26 looks as old (and filthy) as that of McCarthy's old shop which has one broad window, in contrast to No 26's two small windows. No 26 also has a door to the street which was put in later than 1888, I presume, hope they didn't re-use the original!

The gate mentioned by the press is nothing to do with the passage.

[Sam Flynn]

Ah, it is also in the Irish Times here on Casebook (I had already looked on here once...duh!!!)
http://www.casebook.org/press_report.../18881110.html

Interesting, Jon: "Opposite the court is a very large lodging-house, of a somewhat inferior character. This house is well lighted and people hang about it nearly all night."

Come in, Mr Wideawake, your time is up!