Jack the Ripper: The Secret Police Files by Trevor Marriott Read Free Book Online

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    Pc Long who discovered the graffiti and the apron piece was then called his testimony was:
    “I was on duty in Goulston-street, Whitechapel, on Sunday morning, Sept. 30th, and about five minutes to three o'clock I found a portion of a white apron (produced). There were recent stains of blood on it. The apron was lying in the passage leading to the staircase of Nos. 106 to 119, a model dwelling house. Above on the wall was written in chalk, "The Jews are the men that will not be blamed for nothing." I at once searched the staircase and areas of the building, but did not find anything else. I took the apron to Commercial-road Police-station and reported to the inspector on duty.”
    Coroner : Had you been past that spot previously to your discovering the apron?
    Long: I passed about twenty minutes past two o'clock .
    Coroner: Are you able to say whether the apron was there then?
    Long: It was not .
    Coroner: As to the writing on the wall, have you not put a "not" in the wrong place? Were not the words, "The Jews are not the men that will be blamed for nothing"?
    Long: I believe the words were as I have stated .
    Coroner: Was not the word "Jews" spelt "Juwes?"
    Long : It may have been .
    Coroner: Yet you did not tell us that in the first place. Did you make an entry of the words at the time?
    Long: Yes, in my pocketbook .
    Coroner: Is it possible that you have put the "not" in the wrong place?
    Long: It is possible, but I do not think that I have .
    Coroner: Which did you notice first - the piece of apron or the writing on the wall? –
    Long: The piece of apron, one corner of which was wet with blood .
    Coroner: How came you to observe the writing on the wall?

    Long: I saw it while trying to discover whether there were any marks of blood about .
    Coroner : Did the writing appear to have been recently done? - I could not form an opinion .
    Coroner: Do I understand that you made a search in the model dwelling house?
    Long: I went into the staircases .
    Coroner: Did you not make inquiries in the house itself?
    Long : No .
    As with the murders of Annie Chapman and Polly Nichols there are many similarities, which suggest all three were killed by the same hand. Having carefully reviewed all the facts surrounding the murder of Eddowes there are many issues which I would now suggest cast a major doubt about some of the previously accepted theories surrounding not only this murder and the murder of Chapman and Nichols, but all of the victims discussed up until now and those I will discuss later.
    The post-mortem, which did not take place till twelve hours later, revealed that her kidney and uterus had been removed. The doctors at the crime scene found no evidence of any organs having been removed. Serious questions must now be asked as to whether the killer did actually remove those organs as has been suggested or whether there is a more plausible explanation, which would also relate to the removal of the uterus from Chapman.
    I first looked closely at the times relative to the murder of Eddowes. Pc Watkins who found the body stated that he was in Mitre Square at 1.30am and saw or heard nothing. He stated he had his police lantern illuminated. He returned to the square at 1.44am. Fourteen minutes later and found the mutilated body of Eddowes in what was described as the darkest part of the square. At that time he saw or heard nothing.

    A number of witnesses who had left a nearby club at 1.35am state they saw a female fitting the description of Eddowes talking with a male outside the entrance to Mitre Square at Church Passage, which is the entrance and exit furthest away from the entrance and exit from which Pc Watkins was using. If those witnesses are correct and they did see Eddowes with her killer, then that only leaves a nine-minute window before Pc Watkins returned. If Pc Harvey is correct then that time is foreshortened because he stated he went as far as Mitre Square at 1.40am. So in effect