Mysterious Murders in London

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 13 November 1888, Page 2

Mysterious Murders in London

♦■ LNOTHEE WOMAN MURDEBED IN WHITECHAPEL. 3y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright;"^ j PER UNITED VBEBB ASSOCIATION. I London, November 9. Another murder has been committed n tbe neighborhood of Whitechapel. \. woman, occupying a house of illame, on tbe previous night teok to ler house a male friend, and the next norning her nude body was found in )ed with her head completely severed :rom the body ; the bowels and breast were removed, and the limbs terribly lacked about. Although the limbs xrere so terribly hacked, the cuts were lone in a professional manner, and [eaves but little doubt that a surgeon has been at work. This-^iurder is the most atrocious of the series which bave taken place lately, and greatest excitement prevails in Whiteohapel. rhe police are using bloodhounds to track the murderer. November 11. A free pardon has been offered to anyone concerned in the Wbitechapel \ murders, excepting the actual murderer, for such information as will lead to a conviction. A sailor, lately returned from Sydney, has been arrested ob suspicion. (Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.) The Evening News of October 3rd printed in red ink fac simihes of a letter and post-card received a few days before at the office of the Central News Company, purporting to have been written by the murderer, in which he gloats over his crimes and threatens to commit others in defiance of the police, of whose efficiency he expresses a very poor opinion. The police are inclined to the belief that the letter and card are genuine. The police have adopted the theory that the letter and the postal card before mentioned, and signed " Jack the Kipper," emanated from the aotual murderer. Fac similies of the letter and cards are posted in every Police (Station and upon every dead wall, acoompanied by a paragraph begging any person recognising the writing to communicate with the head of the police. A second communication was received on the evening of October 5 from " Jack the Ripper," announcing his intention to commit more murders on the night of the 6th, and upon the strength of this every policeman was ordered on duty, assisted by hundreds of amateur detectives. A reign of terror prevailed in Whitechapel, and daylight of the 7th was hailed with The Lord Mayor and tbe manager of the Financial News have offered £300 reward for the apprehension of the murderer, and a fund for the same purpose was raised by members of the Stock Exchange. There is no clue, and Scotland Yard is at its wits' end. Drs Forbes and Winslow, Sir Kisdon Bennett, and other medical experts are convinced that the perpetrator of these crimes is a homicidal lunatic. Sir Charles Warren, Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police,, replying to the criticisms of the press, declares that London ia the safest city in the world, and says his detectives are straining every nerve to discover tfofl* perpetrator of the murders.