GED,I wonder if the defence itself tried to find any passengers/witnesses on the journey to North John Street...if they had, surely it could have weakened the police's belief that WHW was himself Qualtrough-though I think BEATTIE did that for them anyway at the trial. Certainly the Radio re-enactment clearly implied strong police pressure by Hubert Moore being applied to young Alan Close to bring his timing back to 6.30 ish to make the scenario just about possible......possible maybe, but still, I would suggest, only by someone like Spring-Heeled Jack & with the luck of the devil!!! Incidentally,going back to JESSE,I remember MARKR covering the "washing away of the blood" at Wolverton Street by pointing out that,on this point alone the police were very thorough..removing all the pipes,toilet fittings,drains etc....and, of course, even in those days the benzadrine test was very accurate.We can surely safely assume NOBODY washed away any blood in the house itself. IAN(FJumble)
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