THE LONDON MURDERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1815, 13 November 1888, Page 1

THE LONDON MURDERS.

ANOTHER TRAGEDY. Lon»on, No?. 9. Another dreadful murder bus been committed in the n«ighborhood of Whitechapel. A womm occupying a house, of illfame on the previous night took to her house a male friend. Next morning her nude body was found in bed with thehemi completely severed from the body ; the bowels and broasts were removed, and the limbs terrib'y hicked about. Alt hough the limbs were so . terribly hacked, the cuts were done in a professional manner, and leares but little doubt that a surgeon had bsen at work. This murder is the most atrocious of the series which Ikis taken place lately, and tremendous excitetnont prevails in Whiteohspel. Tie p. lice are using bloodhounds to trick the murderers.

THE PREVIOUS MURDERS. The following particulars regarding tho previous murdors cw to liand by the San Franclioo Mail :

A special from London of October 9th, said an arrest which the police believed important had been made the night previous. On Wednesday a stranger called nt a shop in Gray's Inn Tload, with an overcoat to be cl-saned. The garment was stained with Wood, especially the pockets, which , were dyed red. The shopman notifl ' Yard. ; Detectives were secreted on the premises,, and when the nun call«d for the coat they arrested him. He refused to give an account of himself or explain the stains. He was made a prisoner and a searching investigation wns entered on.

The Evening News of October 3d printed io red ink a fac simile of a letter and postal card received a few days before at the office of the Central News, purporting to have been written by the murderer, in which he gloats over the crimes and threatens to commit others, in defiance of the polioe, of whose efficiency he expresses a very poor opinion. Thu police arc inclined to the belief that the letter and oard «re genuine. The police hare adopted the theory that the postal card and letter, which were s'gned " Jack the Ripper," sent to the Central News Agency on Sept. 27tb, •nanated from the actual murderer. Fac similes of the letter and card ara posted at every police station, and uj.on every dead «all, accompanied by a psr«-. graph begging any person recognising tue writing to communicate with the head of the polic°. A second communication was received at the Agency on the evening of October sth from "Jack the Ripper. It anqouncd hia intention to commit mors murders on the night of the 6th, and upon the strength of this every policeman was ordered on duty, assisted by hundreds of amateur detective?. A reign of terror prevailed in Whitechapel, and daylight on the 7th wns hailed with joy. G?orge Lusk, a builder, who is head i-f a Wliitecnapel Vigilance Committee, received by parcel post on Tuesday, Oct. 16th, a box containing ameity substance, with a note reading an follows : "I sen.') you half of a kidney I took from one of the women. I preserved it for you. T'other piece I fried and ate it. it was very nic». I may send on the bloody knife that took it out if you ody wait a little while looger." The box was taken to the Lo"don Hospital, and Dr Openshaw said the contents certainly came from a full-grown woman. The ghast'y package is now at Scotland Yard. It U supposed that tlie rantter was cut from -the Mitre-stieet victim. The handwriting of the note is not at all like "Jack the Ripper's " letter. George M. Dodge, a sailor, came forward on October ith sand described a Malay cook called Alsaca, whom he knew as having recieved 50 dollars for two years' wages about August 13th which were stolen by a Whitechapel woman. Dodge heard the Malay threaten that unless he recovered the meney he wou'd murder and mutilate every Whitechapel woman he met. •

Tha Lord Mayor and the Maoagor of the Financial News have offered £3OO reward for the apprehension of lite rntrderer. and a fund for the same purpose was raised by (he members of the Stock Exchange. There is no clue, and Scotland Yard in at its with'.ends. Dr Forbes Winslow, Sir Ilisdon Benn«U and other medical experts are couviucod that (he perpetrator of these ciimes ia a homicidal lunatic. Sir Chß=. Warren, Chief Inspector of the Metropolitnn Police, replying to criticisms of th" Pr«S3, ' rl°c';irpa tint London is the safest city in the worM. He sayß his detectives are straining every nerve to discover the perpetrator of tin murder*.