My estimated timeline:
Approx 12.30 Wess, his brother and Louis Stansley left the club seeing nothing suspicious. He estimated the time that he left from the time that he arrived at his lodgings which were 5 minutes walk away.
Approx 12.30 Charles Letchford passed and saw nothing to report. He stated that his sister was at the door at 12.50 and saw no one pass. (I’m unsure if we know that she lived elsewhere in the street but if the “at the door” was accurate then I assume that they lived at the same address?)
Approx 12.31 Joseph Lave goes into the yard and walks around for 5 minutes or so before going back inside. There are so many conflicting versions of what Lave did that it’s impossible to pin him down.
Approx 12.35 PC Smith passed down Berner Street. Either Lave had just gone inside when Smith passed or he was simply inside the yard and not looking toward the street as he passed. Smith sees the couple on the opposite side to the club near the corner Fairclough Street. He is confident that the woman was Stride.
Approx 12.36 Morris Eagle returns from taking his girlfriend home. He goes into the club seeing nothing unusual.
Approx 12.37 Fanny Mortimer goes onto her doorstep. She sees a couple who she apparently also speaks to after the discovery of the body.
Approx 12.45 Fanny goes back indoors after seeing Leon Goldstein pass.
Approx 12.45 James Brown goes to get his supper. He sees a couple in Fairclough Street near the corner of Berner Street. He appears to have said that he was ‘certain’ and then ‘almost certain’ that it was Stride although he gives no description of her and sees no flower.
Approx 12.46 Stride says ‘no’ to the man with her and they part company with Stride walking across the the gateway.
Approx 12.46 Israel Schwartz passes and witnesses the incident outside the yard. He disappears down Fairclough Street.
Approx 12.48 Brown exits the shop and returns home with his supper.
Approx 1.00 Louis Diemschutz returns and discovers the body of Stride.
Approx 1.01 Diemschutz and Koz head into Fairclough Street in search of a Constable while Eagle heads to Commercial Road. In short time Diemschutz returns with Spooner but Koz continues toward Commercial Road where he meets up with Eagle and Lamb as they are returning.
Approx 1.05 Lamb, Eagle, 426H and Koz get back to the yard.
Approx 1.06 Smith arrives at the yard just after Lamb.
Approx 1.07 426H is sent to get Dr Blackwell
Approx 1.08 426H arrives and speaks to Johnston.
Approx 1.12 Johnston arrives at the yard.
Approx 1.16 Dr Blackwell arrives at the yard. Any suggestion of time difference here can only be a suggestion that Blackwell’s watch was wrong.
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None of these times are exact. All come with the acceptance of a reasonable margin for error. Does it explain every single detail of what went on? Definitely not. That would be a fruitless task with so many unknowns but whilst I’m not claiming that the above is a spot on perfect version of events as far as times are concerned I’d say that there are no proven facts that can disprove these events so we can’t say that they didn’t occur something like the above version. So the above version (agreeing with Frank) is a plausible version. If minor changes/suggestions were suggested there could be no claim from me that they were definitely wrong. I continue to see absolutely no reason for or evidence of any deliberate lies and certainly there’s no evidence or motive for any cover up. Indeed the evidence against a cover up are self evident in my opinion and can be dismissed with total confidence however much this might annoy.
I take the view that Hoschberg and Kozebrodski were simply mistaken. There is nothing in these events which lends weight to the suggestion that Diemschutz discovered the body at 12.45 or just before. Yes of course Eagle was estimating too but when I compare Eagle with Hoschberg and Kozebrodski It’s just too much to ask. At the very least, with Eagle leaving the club to go to his girlfriends house and then returning from a journey that he would have undertaken numerous times, we have a more likely person to have been aware of the time as opposed to basically two men in a club. I think that it’s even possible that one got his time from the other. Maybe they were in hearing distance when interviewed? Whatever responses I believe that these two witness were wrong.
Are we ever going to get to a point where we all say “yes, that’s exactly what happened.” I’d say that if there’s one thing that we can be certain of is that we’ll never reach that point. My position is that the above is something like what happened. I see no reason to believe any major differences and I’m doubly certain that no cover up occurred.
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