THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERS IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3051, 12 November 1888, Page 2

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERS IN LONDON.

Particulars ,by San Francisco . Mail.

A special from London, October 0, says: One arrest, which the police thought important,'had been made the night previous. On Wednesday a strauger called at a shop in the Gray's Inn-road with an overcoat to be cleaned. The garment was stained with blood, especially the pockets, which were dyed red, The shopman notified Scotland Yard, and detectives were secreted on the premises, and' when the man called for his coat they arrested him. He refused to give an account of himself or explain the stains, and was made a prisoner. A.searching investigation was entered on.. The Evening Nows of Ootober 3rd printed in red ink similies of a letter and post-card received i few days before at the office of the Central News Company, purporting to have been written by the murderer, in which he gloats over his crimes and threatens to commit others in defiance of the police, of whoso efficiency he expresses a very poor opinion. The police .are inclined to the. belief that the letter.and oard are genuine, The police have adopted the theory that the postal card and letter before mentioned and signed "Jack the Hipper," sent to the Central News Age Hoy on September 27th, emanated from the actual murderer. Fac similies of the letter and cards are posted in every Police Station and upon every dead wall, accompanied by a paragraph begging' any person recognising the writing to communicate with the head of the police. A second communication was received at the agency on the evening of October 5 from "Jack the Ripper" auuounoing his intention to commit more murders on the night of the 6th, and upon the strength of this every polioemin was ..ordered on duty, assisted by -hundreds of amateur detectives. A reign of terror prevailed in Whitechapel, and daylight on the 7th was hailed with joy. George Lush, a builder, who is head of a Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, received by, parcel post on Tuesday, October 16th, -a box containing a meaty substance, and with it a note reading as follows : " I send 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 was very nice, lmayseud on the bloody knife that I took it out with, if you only wait a little longer,' * The box was taken to the London Hospital, and Dr. Openshaw said the contents certainly came from a fullgrown woman. The ghastly package is now at Scotland Yard, It is supposed that the matter was cut from the Mitre-street victim. The handwriting of the note is not at all like that of "Jack, the Ripfier's" letters. George M. Dodge, a. sailor, caine forward on. October 4th,. and described a Malay cook, called Alaska, whom lie know as having received 500 dollars for two years' wages about August 13th, and which was stolen from him by a Whitechapel street • walker. . Dodge .heard the Malay threaten that unless he recovered the money, he would murder and mutilate every Whitechapel woman he, met. In connection with these dark and terrible crimes it may be montioned that the coroner, summing up at the inquest held on September 26th oh the body of a previous Whitechapel victim, stated to the jury that shortly ' after the details of their last sitting had been' published, the sub-curator of an English pathological museum informed him that some months ago an American visited him and asked that he procure for him a number of anotomical'specimens. The visitor said he would willingly pay £2O each for the specimens, his object being to issue an actual specimen with each copy of a book upon which he was engaged, The sub-curator informed the applicant that his compliance with such a request was impossible. The American urged the feasibility at a second interview of the same kind, The curator promptly informed the authorities of Scotland Yard of the fact. There havo been various arrests on suspicion, but there is no hope that any of those detained will be wanted,

Tho Lord Mayor and tho manager of tho financial news havo offered & 800 reward for the apprehension of the murderer, and a' fund for the same purpose was raised by the Stock Exchange. There is no clue, and Scotland Yard is at it wits' oud, Prs %'bes and Winslow, Sir Risdon Bennett, and othor medioal experts are convinced that the perpetrator of these crimes is a homicidal lunatic, Sir Charles Warren, Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, replying to the criticisms of tho press, declares that London is the safest city in the world, and says his detectives are straining every nerve to discover the perpetrator of the murders,