THE SEVENTH WHITECHAPEL MURDER. FEARFUL MUTILATIONS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 331, 5 January 1889, Page 3

THE SEVENTH WHITECHAPEL MURDER. FEARFUL MUTILATIONS.

This following are the full particulars of the seventh murder in Whitechapel :—: —

SCENE OF THE MURDER— "HOW THE POOR LIVE." The scene of line lost, crime is al No. 26, Dorset-street, SpitaHields, which is about two hundred yards distant from 35, Han-bury-street, where the unfortunate woman, Mary Ann Nicholls, was so foully murdered. Although the victim, whose name is Mary Jane Relly, resides at tho above number, the enhance to the room she occupied is up a narrow court, in which arc some half-a-dozen housos,and which is known as Millers Court ; it, is entirely separated from the other portion of tho house, and has an entrance leading into the court. The room is known by the title of No 13. The house is rented by John McCarthy, who keeps a small general &hop at No. 27, Dorse tstreet, and the whole of tho rooms aie lot out to tenants of a very poor class. As an instance of the poverty of the neighbourhood, it may be mentioned that nearly tho whole of the houses in tins street are common lodging-houses, and the one opposite where this murder was enacted has accommodation for some 300 men, and is fully occupied, every night.

HOW THE VICTIM LIVED. About twelve months ago Kelly, who was about twenty-four years of ape, and who was considered a pood-looking young woman, of fair and fresh -coloured complexion, came to Mr McCarthy with a man named Joseph Kelly, who she etatcd was her husband, and who was a porter employed at the Spitalfields market. They rented a room on the ground lloor, tho p.imo in which tho poor wouian was murdered, at a rental of 4s a week. It hud boon noticed that tho deceased woman was somowiiataddictedtodrinkbutMrMoA/atthy denied having any knowledge that she had been leading a loose or immoral life. That this was so. however, there can be no doubt; for about a fortnight ago she had a quarrel with Kelly, and, after blows had been exchanged, the man left tho house, or rather room, and did not return. It has since been ascertained that lie went to live at Buller's common lodging - house in Bishopsgate-streot. Since then the woman has supported herself as best she could, and the police have ascertained that she has been walking che streets.

W HEN LAST SEE N. --"SWEET VIOLETS" IN THE COUftT. Kelly had a little boy, aged about six or seven years, living with her, and latterly she had been in narrow straits, ko much so that she is reported to have stated to a companion that she would make away with herself, as she could not bear to see her boy starving. There are conflicting statements as to when the woman was last seen alive, but that upon which most leliance appears to be placed is that of a young woman, an associate of the deceased, who states that at about half-past ten o'clock on Thursday night she met the murdered woman at the corner of Dorset-street, who said to her that she had no money, and if sho could notgetanyivouldnevergooubany more, but would do away with herself. Soon afterj ward? they parted, and a man, who is desi cribed a^ respectably dressed, came up and spoke to the murdered woman Kelly and offered her money. The man then accompanied the woman home to her lodgings, which are on the second floor, and the little ' boy was removed from tho room and taken to a neighbour"? house. At any rate, none of those living in the court or at 26, Porsetstieet, saw anything ol the unfortunate cio'ifui'e after about eight o'clock on Thursday evening, but a person living in the court opposite heard her .singing, it is said, the song, "Sweet Violets," but this person is unable to !-ay whether anyone else was with her at that time. Nothing more was seen or heard of her until her dead body was found.

THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRIME. At. a quarter to eleven yesterday morning, as-* the woman was 30s in utrcaib with her rent, Mi McCarthy said to a man employed by him in his shop, .John Bowyei, "(Jo to No. 13 (meaning the room occupied by Kelly) and try and get some rent." 1 Bowyer went, and on knocking at the door was. unable to obtain an answer. On looking through the keyhole he found the key was> mitring. The left-hand side of the loom faced the court, and in it were two large windows Bowyer, knowing that when the man Kelly and the dead woman had their quarrel a | sane of glass in one ot the windows was broken, went round to the side in question. Ho put his hand through the aperture and pulled aside the muslin curtain which covered it. On his looking into the room a shocking sight presented itself. He could see the woman lying on the bed, entirely naked, covered with blood and apparently dead. Without waiting to make a closer examination he ran to his employer and told him he believed the woman Kelly had been murdered. McCarthy at once went and looked through thebroken window, and, satisfying himself that something was wrong, despatched Bowyer to the Commer-cial-street police station, at the sarao time onjoining him nob to tell any of the neigh bours what he had discovered. Inspector Back, 11. Division, who was in charge of the station at tho tine, accompanied Bowyer back, and on finding that a murder had been committed at once sent for assistance. Dr. Phillips, the divisonal surgeon of police, and Superintendent Arnold were also sent for. On the arrival of the latter he caused a telegram to be sent direct to Sir Charles Warren, informing him what had happened, and Inspector Abberline, who had already arrived, despatched a message to Sir Charles Warren to bring the bloodhounds.

A SICKENING AND UN PARALLELED SCENE. Ait- Arnold, having satisfied himself thai the woman was. dead, ordered one of the windows to be removed. A horrible and picktming sight then presented itbelf. The woman lay on her back on the bed, entirely naked. Her throat was cut from ear to ear, right down to the spinal column. The ears and nose had been cut clean off. The breasts had also been cleanly cub off and placed on a table which was by the side of the bed. The stomach andabdomenhadbeen ripped open, while the face was slashed about, so that the features of the poor creature -were beyond all recognition. The kidneys and heart had also been removed from the body and placed on the table by the side of the breasts. The liver had likewise been removed, and laid on the right thigh. No portion of the body, however, had been taken away by the murderer. The thighs had been cut. A more horrible or sickening sight, could not bo imagined. The clothes of the woman were lying by the side of the bed, as though they had been taken off and laid down in the ordinary manner. While this sxamination was being made a photographer, who. in the meantime, had been sent tor, arrived and took photographs of the body, Iho organs, the roomj and its contents. Superintendent Arnold then had the door of the room forced. It wast a, very

poorly furnished apartment, about 12 feefc square, feiiero being only an old bedstead, two old tables, and a chair in it. The bedclothes had been turned down, and this was probably dono by the murderer after he had cub his victim's throat. There was no appearanco of a struggle having taken place, and, although a careful search of the room was made, no knife or insorument of any kind was found.

CAPS WERE DOFFED AND TEAES WERE SHED, Aftor a careful examination of the remains by sovoral doctors, the body was placed in a shell, which was put into a cart and conveyed to the mortuary. It was at ten minutes to four o'clock that a one-horse carrier's cart, with the ordinary tarpaulin cover, was driven into Dorset-street, and halted opposite Miller's Court. From the cart was taken a long shell or coffin, dirty and scratched with constant use. This was taken into the death chamber, and fliero the remain^ were temporarily confined. The news thai the body was about to be removed caused a great rush of people from the courts running out of Dorsetstreet, and there was a determined effort to break the police cordon at the Commercialstreet end. The crowd, which pressed round tho van, was of the humblest class, j but the demeanour of the poor people was | all that could bo desired. Ragged caps wore dofled and slatternly-looking women shed tears as the shell, covered with a ragged-looking cloth, was placed in the va». The remains were taken to the Shoreditch mortuary, where they will remain until they have been viewed by the coroner's jury. Dr. McDonald, coroner, in whose district the murder has happened, has fixed Monday morning for the opening of the inquest at the Shoreditch Town-hall.

WHERE WERE THE BLOODHOUNDS? From inquiries made among the personß living in the hoube>< adjoining the court, and alftO tho&e residing in 100 ms in No. 26, it appears clear that no noise of any kind was heard. Up to Uie present time, the occurrence is enveloped in ab much mystery as were the previous murders. The man Kelly was quickly found, and his statement a~ceitained to be correct. After the examination the windows were boarded up and the door padlocked, by direction of the police. It was reported that bloodhounds would be laid on to endeavour to trace the murderer, but for some reason this project was not carried out, and, of course, after the streets became thronged with people that would have had no practical result. The street being principally composed of common lodging-houses, persons are walking along it during all hours of the night, so that little notice is taken of any ordinarily-attired man. The murderer, therefore, had a (good chance of getting away unobserved. !

THE COOL DARING OF THE MURDERER. A correspondent who last night saw ih e room in which the murder was committed says it was a tenement by itself, having formerly been the back parlour of No. 26, Dorset street. A partition had been erected, cutting it off from the house, and the entrance dooi opened into Miller's Court. The two windows also faced the court, and, as the body could be seen from the court yesierday morning, it is evident that, unless the murderer perpetrated his crime with the light turned out, any person passing by could have witnessed the deed. The lock of the door was a spring one, and the murderer ap- j paiently took the key away with him when ho left, ab ifc cannot be found. The more the facts are investigated, the more apparent becomes the cool daring of the ; murderer. There are six houses in the \ court besides the tenement occupied by the deceased.

THE MAN WITH WHOM DECEASED 3JAD LIVED. A young woman named Harvey, who had blepb with deceased on several recent occasions, has made a statement* to the effect that .she had been on good terms with the deceased, whose educatiou was much superior to that of most persons in her position of life, Harvey, however, took a room in New Court, off the same street, bub remained friendly with the unfortunate woman, who visited her in New Court on Thuisday night. After dunking together, they parted at halfpast seven o'clock, Kelly going ofl in the direction of Letnan-sfcreet, which she was in the habit of frequenting. She was perfectly sober at the time. Joseph Burnett (called in other reports Kelly), an Irishman, at present residing in a common lodging-house in New -street, Bishop Gate, informed a repoiter last evening that he had occupied his present lodgings since Tuesday week. Previously to that he had lived in Miller's Court, Dorset-street, toreight or nine months with the murdered woman Mary Jane Kelly. They were very comfortable together until another woman came fco sleep in their room, to which he strongly objected. Finally, after the woman had been thete two or three nights, he quarrelled with the woman whom he called his wife and lett hei. The next day, however, he returned and gave Kelly money. He called several other days and gave her money when he had it. On Thursday night he visited her between half -past seven and eight and told her he was sorry he had no money to give her. He saw nothing more of her.

COINCIDENCES AS TO DATES. A somewhat important tact has been pointed oufc, which puts a fresh complexion on the theory of the murders. It appears that the cattle boats bringing life freight to London are in the habit of coming into the Thames on Thursdays or Fridays, and leave again for the Continent on Sundays or Mondays. It has already been a matter of comment that the recent revolting crimes have been committed at the week's end, and an opinion has been formed among some of the detectives that the murderer is a drover or butcher employed on one of these boats —of which there are many — and that he periodically appears and disappears with one of the steamers. This theory is held to be of much importance by those engaged in this investigation. There is also, it is to be noted, a striking similarity in the period of the month in which the crime has been committed, for while two of the most atrocious of the other murdem were committed on the 7th of tho months of September and August, this was commenced or committed on the Bth - approximately the same period in the month. This would seem to indicate fchat the murderer was absent from the scene of these horrors for fixed periods, and that his return was always about the same time.

The Boston "Commercial Bulletin" estimates the American wool supply this year at. sixty million pounds compared with a hundred and ten millions last year. As it was written by intelligent reporter : Description of church decorations al< Christmas — Unto us a child is born tiiteen feet long and two feet wide, body red and blue, with holly stuck about it. To a bride :—: — Believe that heaven made you i'oi each other : That throufih your lives love's holy river • runs ; May all your joys couio one upon auolher, And all your troubles be but little ones.