FISHING FOR CLUES. — INQUEST DISCLOSURES. London, September 21.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 316, 14 November 1888, Page 3

FISHING FOR CLUES. — INQUEST DISCLOSURES. London, September 21.

Another week has passed, and tho While, chapel murders are mystorious still. AH hopos of findiug the assassin have, indeed* been long ago abandoned, save by the indomitable Sir Charles Wan-en and the indefatigable Detective Superintendent Abberliue. The last-named officer, you may remember, was the one who defeated tho Jubileo Day dynamitard plot and brought the last of the iamous gang to justice. Ho does not pretend to be a Lccocq. but, given a clue, hecan follow it up a? well as any man. The Whilechapel murders arc perplexing and coniounding because of the total absence of clues. The nearest approach to one transpired in tho course ol the medical evidence at the inquests, but the suggestions it implies are so horrible I scarcely like to name them. The doctors declare that in both poor women's corpses the womb was cut out and taken away, and that the opes a ions showed the murderer to be possessed ot considerable anatomical knowledge. Tho inference an American detective, who was interviewed by the "Star" the other day, draws from this is that the murder was committed either by a doctor or medical student who makes a specialty of diseases of the womb. Whon one remembers what frightful cru cities- medical and surgical enthusiasts have eommiottsd in the so-called cause of science, this lhev\ really does not seem beyond the bounds of possibility. In the case of the woman killed in Hamburg-street, the doctors declare that the murderer was busily at work for at least twenty minutes. "With my surgical knowledge I couldn't have accomplished the mutilation in less time," deposed one witness. The police cannot, however, learn that any welldressed man was seen prowling about '-Vhitechapel that night.