Jack McCarthy speech on Dorset Street

[Scott Nelson]

Which John/ Jack McCarthy do you believe gave the speech rebutting the claims in the Daily Mail article on the Worst Street in London, which was covered in Boxing World and the Mirror of Life? Was it the boxing promoter John McCarthy or the grocer?

The boxing promoter John McCarthy.

[Scott Nelson]

If John McCarthy did own a hitherto unknown and undiscovered palace in Spitalfields, he would have no need to fake his residency at 27 Dorset Street in the census over multiple decades in a scheme to maintain his voting rights, as an alternative address in Spitalfields would have sufficed to secure his qualification as a voter.

What if there were a bit more to it than that? Not just voting rights, but the right to sell wholesale goods to the poor locals at discount prices, provided you were also registered as a resident. Or a diversionary false residence to avoid rival sporting mobs?