Guten Morgen Stordfield!
Emily Walter, Emily Walton oder Emily Waltors? Ihr tatsächlicher Name ist wohl nur schwerlich herauszufinden.
Evening Standard, 10. September 1888:
"The police attach importance to the statement of the woman who had the medals given her as half sovereigns."
"This woman,
Emily Walton, is a lodger in the common lodging houses of Spitalfields, and says that she was with the man at half past two, and that they were in the back yard of one of the houses in Hanbury street."
Mrs. Richardson´s Statement:
"The only possible clue that I can think of is that Mr. Thompson's wife met a man about a month ago lying on the stairs. This was about four o'clock in the morning.
He looked like a Jew; and spoke with a foreign accent. When asked what he was doing there, he replied that he was waiting to do a 'doss' before the market opened. He slept on the stairs that night, and I believe he has slept on the stairs on other nights. Mrs. Thompson is certain she could recognise the man again, both by
his personal appearance and his peculiar voice. The police have taken a full and careful description of this man."
Echo, 11. September 1888:
([Illegible] Who slept in the back room)
"[Illegible] Hardeman and Charles Cooksley, aged respectively [illegible] and 14 years, were the [illegible] to sleep, as was their custom, in the back room, on the ground floor,
at No. 29 Hanbury-street, on Friday night. The distance from the head of the bedstead to the spot where the deceased was murdered was only twelve feet. Almost at the last moment Cooksley declined to sleep there, and went to bed upstairs. Had he slept in his accustomed place, he must, he said this morning, have heard the slightest unusual sound. The boy stated that his cloth apron and a box of nails, which lay in the yard a short distance from the body, were seized by the police and are still retained by them. The lad Hardeman slept in a room adjoining the cat's-meat shop. This sleeping-place is only separated by a wainscot partition from the passage through which the murderer and his victim must have passed into the yard. Yet the boy heard no sound during the night."
(The Lunatic at Gravesand)
"Another man on whom a good deal of interested centered was arrested at Gravesend. Piggott, the man in question, was said to be covered with blood ; he admitted having been in Brick-lane, where he had a struggle with a woman, who bit his hand ; and the police thought it well to detain him. He, however, in no way answered the description of the man wanted, as published by the police. That description applies, as well as can be gathered, to the man who gave the woman
Emily Walton two brass medals, or bright farthings, as half-sovereigns in a yard of one of the houses in Hanbury-street at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, and who then began to ill-use the woman. The police attach importance to finding the man, but is not true that two farthings were found in the dress pocket of the murdered woman, which would haven an important corroboration of Walton's story."
(The Police Theory)
"This, however, by no means exhausts the list of arrests. To the others, however, but little importance attaches. Most of the arrests made yesterday have been connected presumably with the police theory that the murder and the agitated man with bloodstained fingers and matted hair who entered the Prince Albert Tavern shortly before six o'clock on the morning of the murder are one and the same person. Mrs. Fiddlymont, who served this man with refreshments and took particular notice of him, is confident that she would recognize him, even in a crowd, and some persons who were drinking in the tavern at that time are equally confident. It appears that a man answering the description of "Leather Apron" was recently an in-patient of
the Jewish Convalescent Home in Norwood, recovering from a very severe carbuncle in the neck. The man stated that he had been previously treated at the Paddington Infirmary."
Emily Walton nahm Geld für ihre Dienste in Hinterhöfen und dürfte somit eine Prostituierte gewesen sein, die irgendwo zur Untermiete in Spitalfields lebte. In diesen Berichten wird jene Nummer 29 der Hanbury Street erwähnt. Gemeint bei Walton war "eines der Häuser in der Hanbury Street".
Wir sprechen ja kürzlich über "Police Convalescent Home" z.B. in Brighton. Hier findet ein Jewish Convalescent Home in Norwood Erwähnung. Es dürfte sich wohl um South Norwood handeln.
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html?*sform=wellcome-images&_IXACTION_=query&%24%3Dtoday=&_IXFIRST_=1&%3Did_ref=V0014051&_IXSPFX_=templates/t&_IXFPFX_=templates/t&_IXMAXHITS_=1
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/ludvk-bohumil-kapar-johann-amos-comenius/the-jewish-year-book-goo/page-11-the-jewish-year-book-goo.shtmlSüdliches London, geographisch hier zu finden:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_NorwoodUnd, es handelte sich damals noch um die Grafschaft
Surrey...
"The Jewish Convalescent Home was founded in 1862-3 to
perpetuate the memory of Judith Lady Montefiore, a sum of £6,000
having been collected for the purpose by public subscriptions.
Two detached houses, one for males and the other for females,
were selected in
Portland-road, South Norwood, and their freehold
secured at a cost of £1,700. The Home was opened on October
5th, 1869, with accommodation for five male and five female
inmates. In 1873, an additional piece of land was acquired, and
the Home was enlarged, the new building being opened in May,
1876. This building has since been closed, and the charity
is now
located at Brighton, an inland convalescent home having been
recently established by the late Baroness de Hirsch at Hampstead.There has since been added to the Home (1903) a branch for Jewish
Consumptives — ^the Daneswood Sanatorium, at Wobum Sands.
This institution has been built and equipped at the expense of
Mr. and Mrs. Bischoffsheim, who have presented it to the commu-
nity, to be administered by the Jewish Convalescent Home."
Ich überfliege das gerade nur aber mir fällt auf, dass das Police Convalescent Home in Brighton ja auch an einer Portland Road lag, genau wie das Jewish Convalescent Home in South Norwood, Surrey. Zwischendurch kauft die Einrichtung wohl noch Land, die Einrichtung wurde vergrößert und ein neues Gebäude eröffnet. Dann wurde etwas geschlossen und nach Brighton verlegt...
Spannend finde ich, dass im Hinterhof dort, einige Zeit vor der Tat an Chapman, und wohl auch einige Male, ein Mann auf den Treppen gesehen wurde, der jüdisch aussah und mit ausländischen Akzent sprach. "Seine persönliche Erscheinung und seine eigenartige Stimme" blieben Mrs. Thompson wohl gut in Erinnerung.
Stellen wir uns doch einmal vor, Jack the Ripper schlief öfters auf den Treppen des Hinterhofs in der Hanbury Street und Annie Chapman ging mit ihrem Freier (den, welchen Mrs. Long sah) genau dort hin, zum Killer, und ihr eigentlicher Freier sagte: Danke, ich gehe wieder und ließ Sie mit ihrem Mörder allein zurück. Falls der (Mrs. Long) Freier auch Jude (jüdisch) war und wir wissen, dass es schon sehr hell gewesen ist, wäre er in der Lage gewesen, einen wirklich guten Blick auf den Mann der dort saß werfen zu können. Sie hätten ihn ja aufgescheucht und es war wirklich ausreichend hell. Er hätte der jüdische Zeuge im Seaside Home gewesen sein können. Er hätte ihn, in diesem Szenario, tatsächlich glaubhaft wiedererkennen können.
Man läßt oft die Möglichkeit außen vor, dass "Verdächtige" eigentlich auch gute Zeugen sein könnten. Wie im Falle des Mannes, den Mrs. Long sah. Der tatsächliche Killer, hätte bereits im Hinterhof gesessen haben können.
Grüße, Lestrade.
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