TWO MORE APPALLING CRIMES. PHENOMENAL DARING OF THE ASSASSIN. London, October 5.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 4

TWO MORE APPALLING CRIMES. PHENOMENAL DARING OF THE ASSASSIN. London, October 5.

I .siioui-n think it is vory doubtful whether in the history oi metropolitan crime the police ha \e over been moic thoroughly at sea than they arc o\or the Whitochapel murders. Six women ha\e now been muidcrecl and tnutilatod within a comparatively contracted area of the East End. The assassin, the detectives feel almost ceitain,lies /wc^m somewhere in the neighbourhood; yet search. spy, and intrigue as they may, not a clue can be found. The two fresh crimes committed on Saturday night last resemble their prodeeessors in almofet every particular, pave that the assassin seems to have .shown oven more marvellous fearlessness? and despatch than before in doing this, his feurful work. In tho case of poor " Long TAy," who was discovered with her throat cut from ear to ear in a yard outside the Socialist Club in Bcrners-strcet, it is believed that the murderer was absolutely disturbed in the act of mutilation, and that lie only escaped behind the cart of the little Jew whose pony shied at the corpse. Ceitain it is the body was quite warm when found, and that it did not lie there some ten minutes, or at. lei>.st a quarter of an hour pteviously. Add to these facts, that though the windows of the club were all open, and though a woman was taking a breath of air on her doorstep barely a lew yards off. not a cry was heard, and one wonders what sort "of a monster the authorities are coping with. But if the Beruers, street crime ■seems phenomenal in daring and recklessness, the one committed in MitreSquaic, presumably b,v the same man and barely ten minutes later, is something more. In this case the miserable victim must have told the murderer ho could only rely on a few minutes undisturbed before the policeman would be round on his beat, and yet with this knowledge he ruthlessly and'deliberately pursued his dreadful task. The doctors calculate that the mutilation of the corpse must ha\e taken live or six minutes to complete, so that the murderer can only have lied two minutes before the roturning constable stumbled over the sti'l reeking corpse. How thi.s monster, dripping with blood, as he must necessai lly be, gets off on these occasions without attracting the attention of a .soul or leaving the fainte&t track, is the greatest conundium of all. Clearly he can't have far to go to get home, and he must have a voluminous ulster or o\eiall which he takes on" prior to commencing operations and puts on again afterwards. ° Thoßurke and Hare theory for accounting foi the murder?, advanced by the Coroneral the inquest on Anne Chapman, falls paitiali\ to the ground in view of the statement (made by Sir .lames Kisden Bennett, and backed by other medical authorities) that a scientific specialist could obtain a-^ many uteri as> he wanted lor dissection or examination at any of the medical school 1 * foi the asking. An for any man offering £10 apiece for such things, that (they say 1 ) it- absurd on the face of it. Why, a whole pickled paupir could be obtained for from l! 5 5s to I*3 10^ (according to hit condition), whilst pick led human logs, arms, and bits of the breast fl mean thoraxes) cost only 15s apiece. Supposing, however, persist a few obstinate people, this American doctor who made such a quaint mistake as to otter £10 for what he could get (jrath required the uterus to be as nearly living a s }>of>ihli . Would the authorities permit him in tho cause of science to cut up the corpse of a dead pauper whilst it was btill warm ? "Certainly not ; to get a uttru* in that state would be practically impossible, and even a bribe of £10 mighi fail to produce one.'' The Buike theoiy i- therofoie not eAsoluldy untenable. A far more popular one. however, is that the murderer is a mad medical man or medical student, who imagines he has a mission to destroy prostitutes.. The '"Star" still lather fa\oius the slaughtei - man idea, on the ground that th& murders have all (bar the last two) occurred on night* when blaughteimen are at work, and could be about j Avithout attracting attention. Another | suggestion i& that the murderei is a ratter or a sewer man, and descends promptly into the bowels of the earth by the nearest manhole after the commission of bib crimes. One journal cruelly asks — "Why not a policeman ? Who could get off home easier or more quietly than Master Bobby ?" Dr. Forbes Winslow, the great mad doctor, says the murderei is probably going about his usual avocations perfectly qoolly and placidly. Nevertheless, there are # pretty sure to be indications of mania about him which a trained eye could detect. Let us therefore, he urges-, turn loose 50 or 100 men accustomed to dealing with maniacs (if possible, homicidal maniacs) in Whitechapel, and let Uiem go about accompanied with detectives. Exceptional difficulties need exceptional treatment. The possibility of the murders being the work of a gang has led to heavy rewards being offered in the hope of inspiring treachery. The police are also attempting a house-to-house visitation in Wbitechapel. On Sunday morning a strict cordon was drawn round the district, and no one can paes it without accounting for himself. All these precautions notwithstanding, the impression gains ground that if the murderer is taken it will be in the act of committing one of his dreadful crime?.

A SEVENTH CRT.VIE. Whilst the sensation anent the Whitehall murders was at ifcs height, fresh fuel was added to the flames by the discovery at Westminster of the mutilated remains of another woman, evidently killed some 20 days previously. The limbs were tied up in a large parcel, which must have been placed in the cellar of the unfinished buildings,, where it was found some tiuae between Saturday night and Monday morning. A workman discovered the bundle, and smelling something uncanny, untied the strings, when various portions of a 1 woman's body in a 1 much decompdeed state rolled out. At any other time such a. ghastly discovery would have greatly shocked people, but we are so saturated with murder now that an extra crime scarcely seems to matter. • The police do not appear inclined to connect this affair with the. East End murdeiv. It may prove, indeed, to be .nothing worse than the vile practical joke of a medical student, , from the adjacent hospital. "Paupers' corpses are plentiful in the dissect-ing-room there, and it might , strike mischievous youngsters , as a, joke to, cause a panic 'at the West End, by placing some limbs in the cellars of the new buildingclose by. We shall see. - ,

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