Could there have been an accomplice following behind whom Tanner didn't see?

[AnneGuedes]

The only person who agreed with Mr. Smith, i..e shared his feelings, was his wife, the others didn't. This is simple English as spoken by an English person.

Is that supposed to answer the question ?

[Mrs. B]

Yes, it means what it means, nothing more, nothing less, so that should answer your question.

[AnneGuedes]

Yes, it means what it means, nothing more, nothing less, so that should answer your question.

Should it ?
Who said they agreed or rather had the same feeling ?

[Mrs. B]

On person, his wife.

[John]

The only person who apparently agreed with him was his wife (even though she didn't make a separate statement)

The others in the group didn't agree.

She would do wouldn't she but if push came to shove...?   

[faithlilly]

She would do wouldn't she but if push came to shove...?   

You're right John. Some wives would think nothing of throwing their husbands to the wolves.

[sadie]

You're right John. Some wives would think nothing of throwing their husbands to the wolves.

she just kept quiet, didn't she?

[Sherlock Holmes]

Imagine Matthew had listened to the window at 9:30 and alerted then or had entered the flat but confirmed the undone and empty bed wasn't Madeleine's and alerted, the TP9, with the help they would get from the OC staff, had around 30 minutes to meet Smithcarrier a quarter of a mile away !

That's right. What on earth was Smithcarrier doing parading around the town?

No getaway car

No judgement

Doesn't sound too professional to me...

[sadie]

That's right. What on earth was Smithcarrier doing parading around the town?

No getaway car

No judgement

Doesn't sound too professional to me...

Have just answered your questions in the Sadies Theory thread.  The getaway driver scarpered in fright.

[AnneGuedes]

Fright ? Of two men chatting tennis and kiddies missing a lady friend passing one meter far and a faceless carrier around the corner ?  Fright ? Of the discovery of the open shutters on the next check ? Fright ? Of the Smith family bound to cross a carrier and restore his face ?

[sadie]

Fright ? Of two men chatting tennis and kiddies missing a lady friend passing one meter far and a faceless carrier around the corner ?  Fright ? Of the discovery of the open shutters on the next check ? Fright ? Of the Smith family bound to cross a carrier and restore his face ?

What a strange answer Anne

One of your specials?

[Sherlock Holmes]

A second abductor could simply have gone in a different direction.  But there has to have been two of them because the child Jane Tanner saw was being carried in the opposite position to the one in which she would have been picked up out of bed.

Now we are saying that one of the abductors could have been going in another direction? Why not bundleman as well?

[Sherlock Holmes]

Too many questions here

- If he followed behind, where did he go so that Tanner did not see him?
- Tanner would be nearly turning the corner after she spotted man 1 so if man 2 followed she would have spotted him, but why did man 2 waste a second after man 1 had gone to get out the apartment?
-  If man 2 spotted Tanner coming around the corner, he may have hid but the main question in all of this meticulously preplanned exercise, is why no car was used, but we have an abductor or two wandering around on foot, in the vicinity, one with child not far from the childs own father who may have recognised her pyjamas, and one which apparently some believe walked east and then some time later backtracked east along the same route to be spotted by the Smiths
-Why would anyone risk in the first place climbing into a small window and passing a child out when clothing fibres/hair/dna from any of the three might be found,  rather than say just break in through the front door with any implement

Occams razor anyone?

Is there any evidence of a second person involved in the first place? Well, when I say evidence, obviously nothing tgus far is actual defacto evidence but speculation/possibilities.

Quite

[Sherlock Holmes]

Quote from Elanor today at 8.14 in ' So what are the various scenarios available to us':

'If he had gone in the opposite direction he would almost immediately have come to a much larger main road.'

To which Sadie replies:
Exactly.  On the ball as ever Eleanor.

So was another direction an option, Elanor, or not?

[sadie]

Quote from Elanor today at 8.14 in ' So what are the various scenarios available to us':

'If he had gone in the opposite direction he would almost immediately have come to a much larger main road.'

To which Sadie replies:
Exactly.  On the ball as ever Eleanor.

So was another direction an option, Elanor, or not?

No not really Sherlock ... but you claim to be an expert, Mr HoLmes.  Waht are your thoughts?