ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL The Brutal Butchery of a Woman.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 5

ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL The Brutal Butchery of a Wo man.

Another shocking murder of the wellknown Whiteehapel type was perpetrated on November 9th within 300 yards of the spot where the woman Chapman was killed last September. The details of this tragedy are even more revolting than those of the six which preceded it, The accurate circumstances of the affair are dilticulfc to discover, the police, as usual, placing every obstacle in the way of investigation by tho reporters ; but all reports show that, the murder far surpasses in iiondish atrocity till the terrible crimes with which tho Jiabb End of London has been familiarised within the past six months. The woman, 26 years old, named Alary Jane Kelly, had lived for four months in a front room on the second floor of a house upon an alley known as Cartin's Court. This poor woman was in service a short time ago, but since she came to reside in this court she has been recognised by the neighbours as a person who, like so many unfortunate, members of her sex in tlio eastern end of the town, manage to live a wretched cxisstonce by the practice of immorality under the mossb degrading conditions. The courO iaccs a small square with a narrow entrance, and is surrounded by squalid lodg-ing-house?, with rooms let oil' to the unfortunate class. Kelly is described as a (all woman, not bad looking, of dark complexion, and she gencwiliy wore an old black velvet jacket. She was wearing this jacket in the morni ing when, about) 8.15 o'clock, she went down the court, jug in hand, and returned shortly niter ward-* with milk for | breakfast. She was next seen about 10 o'clock, when she went to a neigh bouHng beet house and stayed diinking tor half an hour. Thirf is the last that was seen of her alive. The woman was behind in rent | and had been told by the landlord that the would be put out if die did not pay up to-day. >She went on the stieets last night to earn mone»' to pay the rent, and io seems to be clearly established that she returned to her loom with a man who passed the night with her. No one has been found who saw the man go in, but some of the neighbours heard him talking to the woman Kelly in her room and heard her singing- as though drunk. At 11 o'clock on the morning of Ko\ ember 9rh a man named Bowycr, agent ot the landlord, went to Kelly'o room to collect the rent. When he knocked at the door he received no answer. Removing a curtain drawn acioss the window ot the room and looking through a broken pane, Bowser saw the woman lying on the bed on her back, stark naked, while marks rf blood woie all over the place. ile tried the handle of the door 'and found it locked, while the key had been removed from the lock. Without going i"to the room Bowyer called the police, who promptly pioceeded to conceal all the facts in the case. In less than two hours the doctoi c had the body in the Morgue and were probing it precisely as they did the Mitre-square victim. They refused to give any details of the examination. One physician present admitted that he had passed much of his life in dissecting-rooms, but never saw such a hoi rible spectacle as the murdered woman. The man who was called in to identify the body gives the following description, which seems to be leliable: The head wa.s nearly severed from j tho shoulders, and the face was lacerated almost beyond recognition. The breastb j were both cut off and placed on a table. The heart and liver wcic between the woman s leg=. The uteuis was missing. There socmerl to be at least forty cuts on the body and big pieces of lles.li were litetaily shipped oft and strewed on the floor. It is simply too hideous to describe. There were no indications iti tin? case of a hand 1 skilled in the u^e of a knife. The body was literally hackoct to pieces, but there is no doubt fch \t it ic. all the woik of the peison who ha 3 been known throughout tho world as the Whitechapyl muiderei. | The mystery in this case is as deep as | in the cases of the preceding crimes. The fiend got away without leaving the | slightest clue. Jlo chose his time well, and tl»e moment the murdered woman's body was discovered »vas that at which the goigeoua spectacle known by the j name of the Lord Mayor's .show was blocking the traliic of the great city, and for boms was organising near the Mansion Hou.=e, scarcely a mile away. Three million people were packed in the streets between the Mansion House and the " World"' office, in Trafalgar square, with nearly e\ery policeman in the city braced as a barricade along the curb to keep them in order. The rigid police patrol maintained in Whiteehapel since tho last horrible murder in October was relaxed for 'one clay, and in that day the assassin struck down another victim. Tt is scarcely necessary to say much about Kelly. .She was a married woman, who fell into dissolute ways and was deserted by her husband. She had a boy 11 years old, who was begging in the .streets while the mother was murdered. The woman had a paramour, a man who sells oranges on the streets, and on whom, as he could not be found, &us»pic : on at once reverted, but he turned up all light to-night, and fainted when he was shown the murdered woman's body. Like the sands that slowly filter through an hour-glass when reversed, the great throng in the streets which had been cheering the new Lord Mayor found their way into Whiteehapel. When the news of the murder spread about every heart was filled with horror, and everybody asked : " When is this going to end '!'" "How long is tihirf fiend in human form going to carve people up under the noses ot the police and mock their fecblo etlbrts to catch him?" The London police are not allowed to beat a crowd into submission, as the New York police are, unless there is an ab&olute riot, but the indignation and excitement were so great at Whitechapel to-day that it was necessary for them to use harsh measures. Profiting by previous blunders, the police, called a photographer to take a picture of the room before the body was removed from it. This gave rise to the report that there was handwriting on tho wall, though the three or four people who were allowed in the room say they did not observe it, but possibly they were too excited to note details. A young- woman who knew the murdered womau- well says that about 10 o'clock at nighb she met her, and that she said she had no money, could not get any, and that she would do - away with herself. Soon after that they parted, and a man, who is describod as respectably dressed, came up and spoke to the murdered woman, and offered ■ her money. 1 The man then accompanied the woman home to her lodgings. The little boy was removed from the loom and taken to,aneighbour's house. The little boy has been found and corroborates this, bub says he cannot remember the man's i'ace'. Another curious circumstance 'worth mentioning is that the, murder was nob made public until 12o'clock.* '■ * • i-- 11 *'','' Mrs Paumier,' iVhb 'seems to be a ' credible person, cells' walnuts iu 'Sanders' Koad, (hear the-scene of tHe murder. * '»She' states Hhufc ab' eleven o'clc-cV -to-day 'a 'respectablo

man, carrying a black bog, camo,up ( to her and began talking about the murder. 1 , He appeared to know everything,, iibbub -ib. He, did not , buy any. walnuts, au,d after standing a few in in pies went away. Mrs ! Paumicr described' him as a' man about 30 years old and five feet six inches in height. He wore speckled irou&ers and a black coat. Several girls in the neighbourhood say that the same man has accosted them and they dialled him. When they asked him what he had in tho black bag, lie said, " Something- thai ladies> don't> like." This is all that is known. If tho police have further information they cavefully conceal it, but there is no veason to believe that they have. Heio is the order of tho pievious murders committed by the same man : August 7th, Martha Turner, G'ommeicialstieet; August3lst, Anuie Nichols, Buck's Road ; September Bth, Annie Chapman, Haiibur<r - street ; September 30th, 'Elizabeth Stride, Bomer-street ; and Kate Eddows, Mitro-square.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Every detail of the seven murders is of the same type, and goes, to show that the murderer has no accomplices. His latest escapade goes to show that a shrewd man is nob above changing Iris tactics. Knowing; the streets are guarded, he lures his victims to their rooms. So long as he follows this plan there is no limit to his operations, and he will probably nob bo caught unless by wine blnnfier of his own. An important, fact, is pointed out to-day which staits a new and quite piobabie theory or the murders, lb appeni-s that the cattle-boats bringing live freight to London usually come into tho Thames on Thursdays I or Friday?, and leave again for the Continent on .Sundays and Mondays. Jb has alicady been noticed tha*- revolting crimes luive been committed at, the end ot the week, arid an opinion has been formed among tome detective-? that the murdeier is ft drover or butcher, employed on these boats, of which theie are many, and that he appears and disnppeais with one of the steamer. ; This theoij is. held to be of much importance by those engaged in the investigation, who believe thab the murderer does j not reside either in Whitechapel or even in the country at all. He may be employed upon one of these boats, ov one who is allowed to travel by them, and inquiries have for some time been directed to following up this theory. At the inquests of the previous victims the coroners expressed the opinion that the knowledge- ot anatomy po&se&sed by a butcher would be sulHcienb bo enable him \o find and cut out the parts abstracted in the several cases-. There is a similar theory that tho man is a Malay cook on one of the ."teamers running to the Mediterranean, These are all there is. There are few facts except thab the women have been murdered and the murderer i& still free. A man's oil&kin coat has been found in the murdered woman's room, bufc whether it belonged to one of her paramours or to the murderer has nob been ascertained. By some it i& looked upon as strong eoiroboration ol the sailor's theory. The doctsrs who made the poot-inortem examination are authority for the statement thab no portion of the last body was taken away by the murderer. One physician gives bhe " World " the following description of the condition of the body when found : " The woman lay on her back on the bed entirely naked. Her throat wa« cub from ear to ear, right down to the spinal column. The ears and no^o had been clean cut off. The breasts aho had been entirely cut off and placed on , the table by the side of the bed. The stomach and abdomen had been ripped open, while the face wa3 slashed about so that the featuies were beyond all recognition. The kidne}'.-. and heart had been lemovul from the body and placed on the table by the side of bhe brea&bs The li\er had been taken out and laid on the right thigh. The Hollies, .soaked whh blood, were on the floor beside tho bed. There wets no appearance ot a struggle. A moie sickening sight could not be imagined." Almost e\ov\ body in the neighbourhood of the murder had some story to toll to-day, but that of Mrs Maxwell, wife ot the lodg-ing-house keeper of Dorset-street, op{ ofcite the house where Mary Kelly lived, seems reliable, and goes to show thab the murder was committed after 9 a.m. Here ibis: "I assist my husband in watching the lodging-house. We divide the time, staying up all night. Friday morning as I was i going home cauying a lantern with me, I saw fcbe woman Kelly standing at the j entrance of the court. Ib was ) then about 8.50 o'clock, and it was un- ' usual for her to bo seen about at thab hour. I said to her, 'Hello, what are you doing up so early? 1 She said, ' Oh, I'm very bad this morning. L have beon drinking so much lately.' I said, 'Here, why don't J you rro and have a half pint of beer 7 it j will set you right.' She replied: 'I just had one. but I'm so bad I couldn't keep it down.' 1 didn't know then that she had separated from the man she had been living with. I then went out to do some errands. On my return I saw Kelly standing outside the public house talking with a man. That was the last I saw ot her. It must have been 9 o'clock." The body was discovered about one boui afterward. Soon after bhe discovery of the murder the authorities ot Scotland Yaid i I telegraphed thnb bloodhounds would be sent [ and all pedestrians were forbidden bo approach anywhere near bhe house in which the body was lying. These precautions wore maintained until a .second telegram from headquarters was receheel stating j that the dogs would not be scut. The ! failure of the appearance of tho bloodhounds j was to-day accounted for by the fact that j ! durinsr recent trials the animals ran away and have not been recovered. Tho'ex'cibenjenb in tho neighbourhood is not so great as immediately following the previous murders. The people are becom- ! ing accustomed to the horrors. To-night, at, usual, the streets are full of loose women plying their tiade uninterrupted by the Kelly woman's fate. No one was permitted to see the body to-day. It will be buried on Monday morning after the inquest. At midnight the dobective3 in the case were holding a conforence about their future lino of action, but no one is under arrest.