Originally posted by Michael W Richards
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Surely the evidence that a soldier was involved in the murder of Tabram is extremely scant. I mean, it's largely dependent on the evidence of Pearly Poll, who in my opinion ranks well behind the likes of George Hutchinson and Catherine Maxwell in the list of reliable witnesses!
Firstly, despite the fact that her friend has been brutally murdered, it takes her 3 days to report vital evidence to the police. Then there's her claim that she and Tabram visited various pubs with 2 soldiers over a period of almost 2 hours. However, despite the length time they were allegedly together, this is uncorroborated by any other known witness.
Next, she claims that Tabram left with her soldier at around 11:45, but this is almost 3 hours before the estimated time of death given by Dr Killeen, i.e 2:30am. Surely, they couldn't have been together, unseen, for that length of time, especially when you consider Tabram's profession. And, of course, Connelly was apparently neither threatened or assaulted by the soldier she went off with.
Connelly's subsequent conduct is also bizarre. She initially failed to turn up for a line-up and threatened to drown herself. When an identity parade eventually did take place she seemed to treat the whole thing as a joke,before changing her description of the two men and then picking out two innocent soldiers at a second parade!
And what of the 2 weapons theory. How does that imply two killers? I mean, even if 2 weapons were used then, according to Dr Killeen, 38 out of 39 wounds were caused by a single knife. Are we seriously to believe that killer A inflicted 38 wounds before Killer B took over and struck a single blow?
Or maybe killer A delivered, say, 20 blows. became exhausted, went away for a break, allowing the more passive Killer B to inflict a single wound, before returning fully revitalized and resuming the assault!
Frankly, I think the last thing we need is yet another addition to the ever growing list of Whitechapel, 1888, murderers.
Cheers,
John
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