Lechmere Continuation Thread

[Mr Lucky]

How does blood flowing from a throat wound indicate that someone is dead?

It doesn't indicate “someone is dead” as the Inquest isn't for “someone” but for Mary Ann Nichols.

[David Orsam]

How did he lie?

Do you genuinely not know?

Evidence of P.C. Mizen at inquest (from the Daily Telegraph): "Police-constable Mizen said that at a quarter to four o'clock on Friday morning he was at the crossing, Hanbury-street, Baker's-row, when a carman who passed in company with another man informed him that he was wanted by a policeman in Buck's-row..."

Other reports make clear that the carman in question was identified by Mizen as Cross.

If Cross/Lechmere said this, as Mizen recalled him doing, it was a lie (and Cross/Lechmere denied saying it).

[Harry D]

On the face of it, he did lie to a police officer when leaving the scene of the crime, having found the body.

How did he lie?

[Columbo]

On the face of it, he did lie to a police officer when leaving the scene of the crime, having found the body.

If you were a competent police officer in 1888 Lechmere would have to be a suspect.

But that is a million miles away from saying that he did it (or that he probably did it).

Very true, and it's these little inconsistencies that make him very suspicious, but not a killer. Not yet anyways.

Columbo

[David Orsam]

Aside from that, is there any other reason to suspect him of committing the crime? The answer, by and large, would have to be NO.

On the face of it, he did lie to a police officer when leaving the scene of the crime, having found the body.

If you were a competent police officer in 1888 Lechmere would have to be a suspect.

But that is a million miles away from saying that he did it (or that he probably did it).