who had been stabbed from behind with a bowie knife with a six inch blade, when walking in a London street?
On a more serious note Andy, Macnaghten moves with rather unseemly haste from his introduction in the famous 1894 memorandum, where he gives a fair description of the case of Thomas Cutbush”s arraignment at London County Sessions in April 1891 for ” the malicious wounding of Florence Grace Johnson, and attempting to wound Isabelle Fraser Anderson” to his later description of the stabbings as “mere prodding”—which,on reading the detail of the case in the news item proves untrue,or at best, way off mark.These young women were attacked from behind by a knife wielder who disappeared with astonishing speed and without the girls being able to get a good look at him.The knife used was purchased in 1891 by Thomas Cutbush ,in Houndsditch ,the street running next to Mitre Square and was a vicious looking Bowie knife with a long blade .These “mere proddings” as Macnaghten called them resulted a significant loss of blood -described as “hemorrhage” from knife wounds and profound shock.It may also
