THE LONDON MURDERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1817, 17 November 1888, Page 4

THE LONDON MURDERS.

London, November 12. Sir Charles Warren's resignation was clu«f.'- to- :the..bttacts Jwhich'; have made upon him by the newspapers in consequence of the helplessness of the police with regard to; therecent murders. He had also been officially ; censured for writing- an article in Murray's Magazine defending the deparinuent. An open, verdict was returned at the inquest on the body of the last victim in the Wbitecbapel murders. The police anJ other pe op | e continue to -receive' 1 letters' signed- «« Jack the Hipper," admitting the murders and threatening more shortly. . The Right Hon. H en ry Matthews, the Borne Secretary, J n rep | y to a quesiionjn the BcusiepfOomraong, reiterated the^.refusal of the Government to offrr n? the apprehension of the murderer. .' ■ November 14. The last victim of the Whitechnpel murderer was a respectably connected woman who had been in a gentleman's service in the West End for some fimp. She descended lower and lower in the social scal« until she b-came an -outcast, antf drifted in<o the slums of the East End.

r-The; police have made what thpy consider an important arrest. The suspected person has the appearAnce of a well dressed man about the town, and is said to be identical with a man observed about the scenes of the previous murders irrmediatply preceding the foul deeds. :| The PresSi commenting on the re•sigriatinn of Sir Charles WarreD, suggests that Mr 'Matthews, the Home Secretary, should follow suit in favor of r m/T?: capable" administrator of the Jlome Department.

The following particulars aTe to hand of the two-murders which "occurred in the Bast End of London on; September 30th, and;-the .discovery..of another, mutilated body on October 2nd near the Houses of Parliament:— . TWO HOHB MUBDEBS. The alarm excited by the recent murders in Whitechnpel was revived and intensified on: September 30fch by the discovery of two more .murders) 1 similar in thnir shocking details, which had been committed early that morning nearly in the same locality, audit is assumed by the same hand. The first occurred at Berner street, Commercial road, and the second, and by far the most horrible, owing to the mutilation to which the body was subjected, in Mitre square, situate on the west side, of Houndsditoh, midway between Biibopsgate Within and Aldgate. In the former case, a woman, with heir throat gashed and'torn, was discovered in the back yard of 40 Berner street, a short distance from Hanbury street—the soene of the muider of Annie Chapman. The pre-

miRPH aio ocoupiod hr *v,„ t„l„ .'• , Woikh g lie,,'. Club "I: .J rßfcer ° at i°" al <ii„K /r • tI. • ■' "" steward of the ' rlv nTho S'™" 1 °» comin B hornl t.vrly ia tho morning, found the bod* oM wonuu lying in B oor» k , of the yard? iL? ing communicated with the police on dutr lurtbnrasu.tanoe wa, aougL from L ?m a n ■rreet Nation, and tho aid of Dr PhiIiJPSS surgeon, was requited. A oSsorJ wves'igation served to d«t«-.™; . 7L n f rfpiri . n j n. 1 , ae «"mine the cause of de»r.l», and the body w« 8 remove:! to «,* mor.uuy. Although in this oa3 e there! wai not ihn mutilation which was perpetrated upon (he wotuid victim, cliacovered an hour y- "iw'^ 6 eqUttre ' ««<»■ Mistier belioTiOß that the murderer was disturbed! and his donigns frustrated. '

Ihe murder in Mitre equare is similar in iti brutality to that of Annie Oh.pbani Ihe victim was an unfortunate woman, bo poor that robbery could not possibly be ■nggeitsd ej a motive. The sight wan a mcjt ahoekmg one. The woman's throat had been cut from the left side, the knife severing tha main artery and other oarfs of the neck. Blood had flow d freely both from the neck and body, on to the pavement. Ap t arently, the weapon had been thrust'into the upper part of tho ablomen, and out completely down, ripping open the body, ar d, id addition, both thighs had been cut aoroDF. The intestines h*d beon torn f'um the body, and fome of them lodged in the wound on the right side of the neck. The woman was lying on her baok, with her head to the Bouth-west corner, and her feet towards the oarrisige way, her clothes being tarown up on to her ohest. Both hands were outstretched by her side. New where Biei wai lying two or three buttons were picked up, and a smaJl cardboard box containing two pawn tickets. Tho supposition i« that her pookets were hastily turned out, either for roboary or to evade suspicion as to the motive for the crime.

There can bo no doubt of the similarity in this o-ise to the murders of Nicholh and Chapnmn; but the mystery ia somewhat greater, owing to the extraordinary rapidity with ivhioh the crimes muefc have been ourrieo out, and the eaey mansor in whioh the murderer appears to have eluded the polioe. Abundant testimony is Forthcoming tl-iafc thg spot was not neglected by tho police cffimaln, both in the way of plain olothes and uniform men.

Tho body of the woman found in Berner Street has tsen identified as that of Elizabeth Bnida er Watte, whilst that of the vrdman murdered in Mitre square bno bsen iden'iSod as Mre K«lly or Oonwav.

A POSSIBIjK explanation of the mtjbdbbs. With reference to the receot atrocious murders in London, a*taction, says: the Vienna correspondent of the Times, may be called to a crime cf nn exaotlf tiiradar kind which preoccupied the public in Austria for r.early three years. A Oalician Jew named Bitter was uocuied in IPB4 of having mtirdored mid mutilated a Ohrigtian woman in a village nenr Cracow. The mutilation was like that perpetrated on the bedy of the womsr. Chapman, and at the trial numbers of wiirjftosßg deposed that amorg oertain fanatical Jews there existed a'.superstition to the eff >cfc that if a Jew bscame intimate with a Chri.tian woman he would ntore for his effenop by shjiog nnd mutilating ths objeo 1 ; of h<» pesnnn. Sandry p,s=ngea o? the 'J.ftlm-id we-e quot.d which, accords? 'o thwitru<ci:e.<, txpresely sanctioned this form of : atonement.:- The trial caused an immense sensation, and Bitter, beihfr found guilty, ras sentenced to death. The Judges of tha Court of Appeal, however, feeling that th« man was the victim of popular error aud anti-Semitic prejudice, ordered a now trial upon some technicality. Again a jury pronounced against Sitter, and once naora the Court of Appeal found a fhw in tho proceedings. A third trial took plaoe, and for the third time Bitter was oondemnsd to bo hanged, but upon this the Court of Appeal quashed the eentence altogether, and Bitter was released, after having been in prison tbirty-sevon months. There is no doubt that the. mm-w_ajjJnnocenfr, but tha evidence touching the supers Citrons pJ rc-vainng-~— »sBQme of iho ignorant and degraded of hia coreligionists remains on reoord, and was never whblly disproved. , A BEWABD OF £SOO OFFEBBD BY THE OOBPORATION. • On behalf of the City Corporation, the Lord Mayor has offered of £SOO for the apprehension of fcho murderer of th 3 womun in ; Mitre square. Other funds are also being raised for. the issuing of fur Sher reward. Several arrests of persons suspeotod have bsou mode; but, in all otsos, the persons detained'Have shown their innocence, ajd been released. The police are following up every possiblo clue that is suggested to them, and are still searching in directions where luspipion rests ; but so far their efforts have been without result.

DIBOOVEET OF AHOTHEB HUTIIATBD BODT. A farther addition to the annals of crime was brought to light on. Ootober 2nd, the soene on this occasion being with a at jnVti throw of the Houses of Parliament. The bodv pToved to ba that of a woman of about twenty-fi>e yean of age, and was discovered in an unfinished building on the Thames Embankment. Intense excitement prevailed in tbo neighborhood on the fact beoominj* known, and for several .hours groups of persons gathered fogetheir discussing the subject;. For the past twelve month* the new police offices, in place of thoao t>t Sootland Yftrd, htve been in course of e"eotirn, the site being thai; on the Embankrcunfc on wh'ch tha Opera House wbs to hnve been built. The contractors ar« Mow* J, Grover »nd.B>r», of Wilton Worku,, New North road, and th" building i« &Sy .ncing y-spidly. ilarj?? numbe* of hands are employ*"^'b» if. V6H never'deemed neoeffwry to *ngag: si night watchman. In rJdition to a hoi-HiDg on the Embankment, which is 15f or 16it in height, there is another hoariirg Of a similar description running along (-lanon row—fi thoroughfare leading out; of Parliament street and running directly at the rear of the Embankment. This wr3 the direct app'oaoh to the works, temporal/ gitewnyn being erected for the purpose. The basement and n'«ber pavia of the building were completed, the former containing 1 number of vaulfs. Several of tfceie are desorit:.:! a« beins: extremely dark in one Gorged In fulfilling their duties the workmen f re p.»wd to and fro, but observed nothirg partioulac .to attraoli their attonl'on.; o<\ Monday morning Oet.ober lab, the foeuan, in making bin'irannda, happened to' in a corner of one of the vaulb obscured: from view, and abont'sixty or seventy yards from the principal gate in Qmm, row, but comparatively; put,of reach of the Embankment, his eye alighted, on a daTk-looking objaofc, vrhioh had the nppesTaooe of an old' oont, and whioh ho believed h*d been thrown there by one of workmen. The followine day feuro or three pieoes of black or dark material, used for ladies' dreises, were discovered in difff rent 1 psirts of the works, and he sent a laborer to get the parcel he hid gsen in the vault. On bringing it to light the men were horrified, and the stench arising from it almost overcame tbem. The covering was of the gftme material as that previouslv spoken of, bnt it was tied with cord.' On removing the fastenings a voutilat: ij'' trunk wan exhibited, the head, armr nnd legs b.ing en' away; 1 The body itself was fu'"tW bound' with cords, hut was frightfully decdmposed, From its Appearance it was that of; a woman of nomeTrhaft full propor. tions., The foreman immediately communicated with the police a!; King-street station, arid in r few rairnl' l " Tngpeo'ovt* -Peter' and Marshall arrived, e.ocnrr.panfcd by; other officers. Intimation of the discovery vv&s

alao conveyed to Dr Bond, wbo in t urn Dr Hibbert to attend. Tho latter gsntletnr»n made a brief examination, and at onoe pronounced the remains to be those or of a woman. After a more minute investigation tho medical gentleman h stated to hsve ezprcscd an idea that tho woman bad been dismembered by an unskilful person, and further, he wag fully of opinion that tho arm recentlj found f.t Pimlico, nj well us the oue found near the Blind Asylum, South London, bolonged to tho sam9 individual. After further investigation, it became apparent that the body must haive bean cariifld bodily and placed in the position in whioh it was found It is impossible for anything to lodge in guoh a manner if thrown over the hoarding on the Embankment, and it would bo equally difioult for any person to climb over at that part in order te gain aooess to tho vault. IEATH.BB APBON. John Pizer, known as " Leather Apro"," Y.m commenced actions against two London journals for hastily assuming that he wr; the perpetrator of the Whiteohapel murders, and has valued his oharaoter in eaoh oaae at £SOOO.