Bios of Maria Harvey & Joe Barnett after 1888?

[Gene Lewis]

Ask for it again: what on Maria Harvey past nov' 9 ?

[Robert]

Hi Bridewell

I don't know whether that's the one that Bob Hinton was tracking. Bob had a dossier on a George Hutchinson with excellent Romford connections, but the signatures on the marriage certificate and the police statement just didn't match, so he abandoned that line of enquiry.

[Bridewell]

The Romford Reference

Hi Gene

As for Hutchinson, I'm afraid he did vanish from the case. There was his police statement, and one or two newspaper interviews, but that's it. The name "George Hutchinson" was an extremely common one and our lack of information about him has made it impossible to identify him in the census records, the birth, marriage and death records, etc. One or two candidates have been proposed, but there is no general agreement as to who was "the" George Hutchinson.

Hi Gene,

I think Robert has pretty much covered all the bases re Hutchinson. We know that he claimed to have walked from Romford prior to the Kelly murder, so the birth entry of an improbably-named 'George Hutchinson Hutchinson' in the 2nd quarter of 1859 in Romford is interesting, but, as Robert has pointed out, the name was by no means uncommon.

Regards, Bridewell.

[Robert]

Hi Gene

As for Hutchinson, I'm afraid he did vanish from the case. There was his police statement, and one or two newspaper interviews, but that's it. The name "George Hutchinson" was an extremely common one and our lack of information about him has made it impossible to identify him in the census records, the birth, marriage and death records, etc. One or two candidates have been proposed, but there is no general agreement as to who was "the" George Hutchinson.

[Gene Lewis]

Hi everybody

What do can be stated "true" in the past-1888 lives of both Maria Harvey and Joe Barnett after nov 1888 ?

And second, did Hutchinson completly vanished after his famous statement at the police ? Or do we know things about him ?


regards
Gene