A LONDON SENSATION. ANOTHER CORPSE FOUND IN WHITECHAPEL. NO MARKS OF THE RIPPER'S WORK.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 5

A LONDON SENSATION. ANOTHER CORPSE FOUND IN WHITECHAPEL. NO MARKS OF THE RIPPER'S WORK.

London in geueial, end Whitochapel in particular, was thrown into a feverish state of excitement on September lObh by bhe news that Jack the Ripper had murdered and mutilated his ninth victim. Both murder and mutilation were reported to be, and indeed proved to be, more horrible than in any one of the ei.ahtcascs preceding. A speedy and close review of the facts by the Police Department led to the conclusion that the remains found did not represent Jack the Kipper's handiwork, and this may be true. There is a very extraordinaiy feature in this case which has been lacking in all the others. On Sunday morning, afc 1.5 o'clock, a young man called at the " Herald " office in London, and reported that there was another .lack the Ripper murder. He was sent up to the editorial rooms, and interviewed by the night edit Dr. He said that a mutilated body had been found in Back Church Lane in Whitechapel. He said that it had been found by a policeman at 11.20 o'clock. Ho said his name wa3 John Cleary and that he lived at 21, Whitehorse Yard, Drury Lane. He was asked to write his name and address and did so, his writing being preserved. His information was explicit and seemingly authentic, and two reporters were detailed to take the man with them and go and get the story. The reporters went out, and one of them stopped on the landing of the stairway in going down and asked the man some more questions. Under this examination he varied slightly, saying that the man who had told him was not a police inspector, but an ex-member of the police force. This statement has perhaps some significance to all who have been following the murders closely. He then went down to tho street with the reporters. They called a hansom and told the man to get in with them, but he first hesit'ited and then refused. His excuse was that it was to far from his home. They urged him too go, but he was firm. One of them proposed to take him back upstairs in order to have him near at hand, if necessai'y, but the necessity of immediato departure compelled them to start and leave him to go his own way. He was assured that if the news proved authentic he would be handsomely rewarded, and he went away apparently contented with the arrangement. The reporters drove to Back Church Lane, and found it without any difficulty. They met two police officers, one an inspector and the other a constable. They questioned both and told them the report they had heard. They had heard nothing, howover. The reporters went over the ground, but found nothing. They then returned and reported the facts. The matter was passed over as unimportant on Sunday and Monday. The moment that the body was found today, however, the events ot Sunday morning loomed up with significance, and a hunt was begun for John Cleary, of 21, Whitehorse Yard, Drury Lane. John Cleary, however, was not known at 21, or anywhere else in Whitehorse Yard. The house is a fourstorey one. The street floor is vacant. The first and second floors are occupied by families, and the top floor by a widow with two children. The widow was confident that no young man by the name of John Cleary lived in the house or had ever lived there. It became evident, therefore, that the man had given a talse address, and in all probability a false name, as puch a precaution in the matter of residence would scarcely have been taken, and the precaution as to name neglected. Cleary's description, however, had been carefully taken. He was about 28 yoars of agre, short, being about sft 4in. He walked with a shuffle and shake, in tho usual fashion of the habitues of Whitechapel, whom he resembled in all respect?. The last murder seems more like a ghastly joke of medical students than Jack the Ripper's work. The head was severed from the body and the legs were disjointed and severed at the thigh. The Scotland Yard authorities are busy following up the clue furnished them by the " Herald." The man Cleary was eagerly sought for in the purlieus of Drury Lano, but without success. So far the police express themselves confident that the information given them by the " Herald " will have fruitful results, and they intend pushing the inquiries to the furthermost. " Herald " reporters are assisting the police, and their joint efforts are watched with great interest by the public.