On the night of the murder, when his memory should have been fresh and uncontaminated by reading newspaper accounts, Robert Paul told a reporter that when he walked into Bucks Row that morning, “I saw a man standing where the woman was.” The man was Charles Cross.
Consider some of the Whitechapel murders as morning killings committed by a local man on his way to work and the others as crimes that occurred on his return journey. If you do then Charles Cross, found beside the body of a victim and close by when others took place, is an obvious suspect.
Cross and Robert Paul notified Constable Mizen of the presence of Polly Nichols’s body. Mizen, not realising the seriousness of what he was told, allowed the two men to continue on to work. Jack the Ripper may have been caught in the act, and have been allowed by a police officer to walk away from the crime in the company of a witness—someone who did not realise the importance of what he had seen.
The murders were opportunistic. Most were quickly done in public places and victims were discarded where they were killed. From the murderer’s point of view these crimes were possibly unsatisfying—and this could explain Mary Kelly’s extensive mutilations.
Working for Pickfords, Cross may have travelled throughout Britain in the years before and after 1888. He may have killed before, and may not have stopped in 1888. In July 1889 Alice McKenzie, like Catharine Eddowes, could have been killed while Cross was returning home to Doveton Street, or the Victoria Home in Whitechapel Road.
Like the contemporary police, later theorists—with several notable exceptions—have shown little interest in Cross. In part this may be due to the intellectual appeal of their far more complex theories—and the ordinariness of Cross. He was not a gentleman, or a Mason, or a relative of a policeman, or a middleclass suicide, or a demented doctor, or a famous painter. He was the almost unknown local man who had not heard the retreating footfall of Jack the Ripper and was found beside a dead woman. Charles Cross is not the most romantic solution to the Jack the Ripper murders, but he may be the right one. On Charles Cross there is more to say, and more to discover.
http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/rip-charles-cross-was-jtr.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9512928/Was-Jack-the-Ripper-a-cart-driver-from-Bethnal-Green.html
Consider some of the Whitechapel murders as morning killings committed by a local man on his way to work and the others as crimes that occurred on his return journey. If you do then Charles Cross, found beside the body of a victim and close by when others took place, is an obvious suspect.
Cross and Robert Paul notified Constable Mizen of the presence of Polly Nichols’s body. Mizen, not realising the seriousness of what he was told, allowed the two men to continue on to work. Jack the Ripper may have been caught in the act, and have been allowed by a police officer to walk away from the crime in the company of a witness—someone who did not realise the importance of what he had seen.
The murders were opportunistic. Most were quickly done in public places and victims were discarded where they were killed. From the murderer’s point of view these crimes were possibly unsatisfying—and this could explain Mary Kelly’s extensive mutilations.
Working for Pickfords, Cross may have travelled throughout Britain in the years before and after 1888. He may have killed before, and may not have stopped in 1888. In July 1889 Alice McKenzie, like Catharine Eddowes, could have been killed while Cross was returning home to Doveton Street, or the Victoria Home in Whitechapel Road.
Like the contemporary police, later theorists—with several notable exceptions—have shown little interest in Cross. In part this may be due to the intellectual appeal of their far more complex theories—and the ordinariness of Cross. He was not a gentleman, or a Mason, or a relative of a policeman, or a middleclass suicide, or a demented doctor, or a famous painter. He was the almost unknown local man who had not heard the retreating footfall of Jack the Ripper and was found beside a dead woman. Charles Cross is not the most romantic solution to the Jack the Ripper murders, but he may be the right one. On Charles Cross there is more to say, and more to discover.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9512928/Was-Jack-the-Ripper-a-cart-driver-from-Bethnal-Green.html
för eget vidkommande är jag ytterst sällan på besök i Flashback och följer inte tråden så noga. Just Jack the Ripper har en tendens att diskuteras relativt livligt i perioder och sedan är det tyst däremellan.
