Originally posted by Herlock Sholmes
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Writers of the time tells us the streets were alive with people all night long, women passing back & forth, kids screaming, dogs running all over the place. Some loitering in doorways chatting with neighbours, and so on.
Take Cadoche for instance, three different newspapers give a different account of him after he left the house on his way to work.
In one he says he saw 'no man and woman' in Hanbury street as he left. In another it reads 'no man or woman', yet the third admits he only saw 'men on their way to work'.
Seeing "no-one" can often mean "no-one suspicious", or "no-one out of the ordinary", not that the street was empty.
In the case above that "no-one" saw her only means at the least "no-one noticed her", but then again all these women looked and dressed very similar.
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