ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL MURDER.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 389, 31 July 1889, Page 5

ANOTHER WHITECHAPEL MURDER.

The body of a woman named Alice Mackenzie, known as Alice Kell, was found in Castle Alley, Whitechapel, on the night J«i y ie»-,h. »tiri tHo uetails of the affair leave no doubt that the unfortunate was the eighth victim of "Jack the Ripper." Almost before the dreadful work was completed, the police came from all directions, and with their bull's-eyes threw patches of light in every direction ; but there was no trace of the murderer. When the woman was placed in an ambulance, underneath, her was found a broken clay pipe, stained with blood. Evidently taken unawares, as she was strongly built, weighed 1401b, and could not have uttered a cry without being heard by the* police, " Jack " adopted ,Jfc)is old plan, except that in this case his right hand was placed over the woman's mouth, and the left hand drove the knife into her neck, instead of vice versa. The body was taken to the mortuary. The examination developed unusual features. 4< Jack " had done his work with a dull knife, therefore his slashes had nob been clean. At 10 o'clock on the 17th the woman was identified as one who gained her living by charing work, and never resorted to the streets. The alley where she was killed is 100 yards long, dark, and encumbered byamassof waggons and barrows, i which formerly were stoied in a yard. At the bottom is a net- work of streets, courts, and alloys. There are no residents of the place likely to go through it at night. The murder threw Whitechapel into a condition of fearful excitement. Several suspicious characters were arrested, but discharged for lack of evidence. The killing was done within a stone's throw from the scene of almost all the other murders. A despatch of the 20th says : " Jack the Ripper " attempted another murder near Castle Alley at midnight, and was arrested before completing the deed ; but it appears to have been only a row between drunken sailors and women. Two parties have been placed under espionage in connection with the crime, a military-looking Englishman, 6 feet? tall, who insists that he is the veritable " Jack," and gives the names of his victims, and the datee on which he killed them, with all the ghastly and indecent details ; the police believe him to be a lunatic. The other, who claims the same unenviable distinction, and who gave himself up, says his name is Brodie, and that he left London in September for Kimberley, South Africa. He is an ex-convict, and made the voyage back as a fireman. He is pronounced insane from consumption and the excessive use of liquor.