THE LONDON MURDERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1824, 4 December 1888, Page 4

THE LONDON MURDERS.

Londoit, Oct. 12. Although tji'e police have been unremittingly- actWdin their investigations, no clue has yet been discovered at all likely to lead to the discovery o£ the {'-[perpetrator of the recent atrocidus rinirders at the East Knd of London. 'Extraordinary precaution s •were taken bn Saturday night, Oct. 6, in Whitechapel, to guard against a i tragedies' j^nM^y i ati'..;tha end of the week,'[and! to capture the perpetrator If he should recommence his ghaitlyi work. ITbe district swarmed with police, both an uniform and 1 in private clbthes, and both official 1 and Toluntary. A letter is published from the Home Secretary in reply to the petition from the local Vigilance Committee to the Queen, urging upon Her’"Majesty "the 'desirability of a Government reward being offered. Mr Matthews repeats 'that, 1 while ino expenditure will be in -'efforts to find the assassin, Government see so reason for departing from the rule In ithC 1 matter of Tewards. l i , The remains of Catherine Eddowes, the victim of the 1 tragedy were interred*#! Ilford Cemetery *on October 8, a large number of ■ people assembling along the line of route.

It is stated that definite instructions have been issued to the poficq that in the event of any person being found murdered under circumstances i similar to those of the recent crimes' they are not to remove the body of tbe victim, but to send notice immediately t 6 a veterinary surgeon in the; south-west’districfc, who holds several trained bloodhounds in readiness ito be taken to the spot where the body may be found, and to be at once put on the scent.

Sir Charles 1 Wdirceri! witnessed a private trial of bloodhounds in one of the London parks at an early hour on the morning of. October 9. The hounds are the property, of Mr Edward Brough, of ; Wyridgate, near Scarborough, who for years past has devoted himself to bloodhound breeding. He was communicated"' with by the politfe, and eame to London, bringing with*him; two fine animals, named Barnaby ' and Burgho.' Mr Brough tried' both dogs in Begent’s Park on October 8. The ground was thickly coated! with hoar frost, but they did their work well, successfully tracking for nearly a mile a young man who 11 was- AbdUb'« fifteei' again in Hyde Park at night. It was, of course, dark,’ and the dogs were hunted in a leash, as would be the case if they were employed in Whitechapel. They’were again successful in performing their allotted task, and on the occasion of the trial before the Chief Commissioner half a dozen runs were made, Sir Charles Warren in two instances acting as the Hunted man. In consequence’of'thei coldness of the scent, the hounds worked very slowly, ibutHhey Remonstrated the ; possibility* of tracking complete strangers omto whose trail they been laid. oThe Chief Gommissioner seemed' pleased -with the result ! of the 7 trials, though he did. not express any definite!’ opiliidh 1 6n !>: 'the tL Subject to tbosh present. Much the "most tgßespme ‘cbn r! 'the fiilf©chap'dl.'/horrprii is that which ,r appearß'ih the Stsiridard from its Vienna cbrresppndenf.i ?j Ac r cording to Dr Bloch, a Galician member of the Eeichstrath, there is no more among than the belief that‘a candle made from ithem'issingportioni 5 of the victims in Whitechapel will throw all those upon whom its light falls into the slumber. Such candles are, therefore, invaluable* to Tn .1810 a man was executed at Magdeburg whose trial it was proved ithat>‘,a regular manufactory had been estoWisheOy gangs of (thieves for the production of such candles.” “ A regular manufactory ! f Did ever the diseased/ imagination s of Edgar Allan Poe iy conceive a more ghastly idea than the systematic manufacture of thieves’ candles from the vitals of their murdeted victims ?