Abberline by Peter Thurgood

Author:Peter Thurgood
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752492773
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

The Juwes are the men that will not be blamed for nothing

PC Long then searched all six staircases in the buildings, in the hope that he might possibly find a weapon, a body, bloody footprints or even a trail of blood, but unfortunately he didn’t find anything. As he started to make his way back to the police station, he bumped into another police officer, who was from a different station to him. The police officer told him that a murder had been committed in Mitre Square, which in turn made PC Long even more suspicious of what he had found. Long told the other constable of what he had discovered, and left him in charge of the building, telling him to keep a close observation on the dwelling, to see whether anyone left or entered, while he was away. PC Long then took the piece of the apron along to Commercial Street police station, where he reported it to the inspector on duty, along with his report, which included a copy of the writing he found on the wall.

Could the piece of bloodstained apron have held a clue which has long been overlooked? It has never been established why the piece of apron was cut from Eddowes’ clothing in the first place or why it was dumped in the doorway of the flats in Goulston Street. It has been alleged that the Ripper may have used it to wipe Eddowes’ blood from his hands and face as he fled the scene, but when Abberline looked into this theory, he thought it highly unlikely, as the distance between Mitre Square and Goulston Street is approximately one-third of a mile, and would probably take about eight to ten minutes to walk. He argued that the murderer would never have seriously contemplated walking that distance through the London streets, whilst wiping away the blood from himself, knowing full well that the streets were full of policemen looking for anyone and anything suspicious at the time.

The second theory as to why he took the piece of apron was to hide his knife. This again, Abberline argued, just doesn’t hold water; why would he suddenly need something to conceal his knife in? What did he use to hide his knife before he murdered Eddowes? This then leaves the third theory, which was that he used the piece of apron to take away some of Eddowes’ internal organs. This, said Abberline, was the most likely of the three theories, but it is let down somewhat by the fact that it was dumped in Goulston Street, meaning that the Ripper either lived there in Model Dwellings, and dumped the piece of apron on his own doorstep so to speak, which would be highly unlikely, or he found a more suitable method of transporting the organs at that point, and transferred the grizzly contents of the apron to his newly found carrier. Once again, said Inspector Abberline, it just didn’t add up.

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