Ripperologist #171

[Elamarna]

Thanks Steve. You were right the first time. I was wondering why the doctors didn't compare Eddowes' wounds to the Coram knife.

I wasn't sure Scott.

I suspect they did look at possibility , but for reasons I suggest discounted it.
Of course you wouldn't have compare it at the Stride Inquest, but might at the Eddowes one, but it seems no one asked.
At a full trial, it would I suspect have been mentioned.

Steve

[Scott Nelson]

Thanks Steve. You were right the first time. I was wondering why the doctors didn't compare Eddowes' wounds to the Coram knife.

[Elamarna]

Question for Steve Blomer:

Why wasn't the Coram Knife evaluated with respect to the deep abdominal wounds on Catherine Eddowes?

I think I may have misunderstood your question, i perhaps stupidly read it at fitst as why didnt the doctors compare it, sorry.

if you are asking why I didn't evaluate it, call it an oversight on my part.
The reason are in the previous post.
I can add it to part two, as a question arising from part one.

Steve

[Elamarna]

Fair question Scott, I have no definitive answer, however, i would speculate the following.

The comments made by Phillips and Blackwell about it being unwieldy would still apply I believe.

The rounded, blunted tip, would make it it very difficult to make the incisions required, while it could have made the stabs observed on the liver; the wound would very distinctive given the tip.

I might also suspect that there would have been far deeper wounds than the ones that lead them to estimate length of the blade.


Steve

[Scott Nelson]

Question for Steve Blomer:

Why wasn't the Coram Knife evaluated with respect to the deep abdominal wounds on Catherine Eddowes?

[FrankO]

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