Prater/Lewis/Hutchinson/Cox

[Ben]

We understand that the above represents your position on the issue, Marlowe, yes.

What we're not getting is any semblence of evidence for the assertion that Kennedy saw Mary Kelly.

[Marlowe]

Kennedy and Lewis are different people.

Kennedy knows it was Mary Kelly she saw with the man.

Lewis did not know Kelly. She saw a woman with a man.

There.

[Ben]

And the evidence for the second assertion is...?

[Simon Wood]

Hi All,

Sarah Lewis stayed with the Keylers in Millers Court. Mrs Kennedy stayed with the Gallaghers.

Has anyone found either of these families?

It might just settle the matter.

Regards,

Simon

[DVV]

It was Kennedy who said she saw Mary Kelly, not Lewis claiming to see Kelly. Understand?

You are more and more funny.
You always say that you have no time to produce your evidence, but you are still posting.

[Ben]

Hi Simon,

Who are the Gallaghers and where did they live in Miller's Court?

Cheers,
Ben

[Marlowe]

David,

Let me guess, you're a teenager [sigh]

Only teenagers combine arrogance and sloppiness with such ease.

[Marlowe]

The Gallaghers were Mrs Kennedy's family.

[DVV]

Still funny.

[Marlowe]

Damn Simon, you've gone and spoiled some of my fun.

I was busy building my hanging tree :-)

[Ben]

Marlowe,

Are you talking about this?

http://www.casebook.org/press_reports/evening_news/18881110.html?printer=true

"Mrs. Kennedy" does refer to having seen "the deceased", but the problem here is that the Gallaghers, Keylers, Vanturney and Owen can't possibly all have occupied the two small rooms opposite #13 between them. One of the parties must have been using aliases or, as mooted earlier, passing off genuine accounts as their own.

The second problem arises from the fact that the account only appears in the "Evening News", and nobody named Gallagher or Kennedy was called to appear at the inquest.

[Simon Wood]

Hi Ben,

I have no more idea than you.

But Mrs Kennedy was reported in the press as having stayed with the Gallaghers in Millers Court.

Regards,

Simon

[Marlowe]

yup. That's one of them.

[Marlowe]

Well, now what? Kennedy said she saw Mary Kelly with the man who tried to lure her into a gateway.

JUST AS I'VE STATED...

waiting on the apologies.....waiting waiting....

[Ben]

Here's an interesting extract:

In connection with Mrs. Kennedy, it may be mentioned that she and her sister, a widow, were, on Wednesday night last, accosted by a man when they were walking down the Bethnal Green road.

A widow.

Sarah Lewis was not a widow. She was married, so she cannot have been Mrs. Kennedy's companion. She could only have been Mrs. Kennedy herself in the Wednesday/Bethnal Green equation, thus cementing and crystallizing the fact that we only have two options to work with as far as Mrs. Kennedy is concerned. Either she and Lewis were the same person, or she had heard Lewis' account and passed it off as her own.

I can't see how any other option is even slightly viable.

Thanks Simon for pointing me in the right direction.