THE BARBER FIEND. [From "Judy."]

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 680, 24 October 1876, Page 3

THE BARBER FIEND. [From "Judy. "]

It wsu tw Tight in the court, without-. A dreary desolate kind of court, with no sign* of life about it Thn tkop within wm Dtuily dark— too dark, i should harp

I thought, for ii i tn to%cu to Mlravo vie in ; tut. tic said : ' Its light enough for what I'vo e<>l t > do,' a d said to in a hi 1 ow voico aa lit whetted the razor. 1 wish to goodifwn the man would ha\ o it th« gas. 1 have gneu bim a bij;tj.sli order, ao to apeak. J want t<o b< f my whiskers taken oil, ao'l I niiould bay? prifeiel btiog sliced nbout as little u» piaaible. But I'm a timid kiud <i man, and thiH barber had a funuy way with biio, and a hand that was flat, ool<l, aed clmnmy-like aa a raw flounder. Ugh ! the thought of it makes me thuduei j still. ' Reno" about the tragedy in WLitechapol ?' he askel ' es,' aaid I It's been a fine day to to-day, hasn't it ? 1 should thiuk all the •qa-sule places are fnll." Tk* mysteries of London are hot a'l known yet,' he sai i ; ' tbeie .we etciet* lying deep 1,1 Iden bom ath a smooth amfae. I lied np horrors atowHd away undreamt of. We ft ml npon the brink of an unmarked gave, and w t in t <fit!' I said, -" Have you seen ' Oar Boy*' at the Vauderville ? They'll bo j >lly old boyt if I bey go on many more hundred nights, won t they ? ' 'Ah T laid h<*, " how can any of us soy how long we may go on ? The aosastiu creeps upon us i-tealtl.ily with noiseless tread- -a aw if t aharp ti c, and there jou are, ready (o be cut tp and cir ted away in convenieutly-sized parte's !' I aaid, ' Juit ao. What Hue fireworks tbo<e are at the Chrystal Palace. 1 You are a atranger in this city, I preiuin", ' contiuued, thongtfully, feeliD^ tlio edi;e of the r»izor. ' You u*y not know much of the hifetory of uu mysteiious crimes — its , mi<li c.ivired murdors, Dj you rememLer tho woman htibhod to death in Great Coraih-atroet, the^rnali wilja the liily^co^' Vtho cut Kmma Jackaon'a throat, the two womm beaten and hammered to dta'h in their shop at Ifuxton, the girl found murdered and flung into Incut's Canal, the bnn's in a bag found on the stone work of Wa er 100 bii't^e — •y-V ' But it Was fettled afterwards that that was not a murder,' said I. The bones came from a hospital.' He pave a bo'low laugh. 'Do tbey bail bon s at the hospitals ?' he aaid. 'V\hnre the Jimbi aticntifio.lly ninpu tated ? Tbat «u a murder, and only ci c among tbousanda of ; h|m^Ur canew. People disappear daily, hourly, and me never heard i f attain. Take jouyot-lf fur inttiuce — ' (1 bfgan fo feel faint,) 'a ttranger in London — with rUomy in your jocket, in all p^b'iability. You cut r my 1 shop unseen. 1 thko you vi a wares from the back. I have a large c<ipp r r downalairs— chop you Up aid boiJ jou. I drop 'your' fragments into the lewer. Y«»u are aw«pt away and nevrr he ard 'Of more!' Take' in'y word for it, the nulD' draihag* and the lar^e coppnra are ans«erab'e foe millinni of undiscovered orimes. Why'should it not happen to ydu ?' ' • ' 1 Here's aixpdnce,' uid "I,"* that'll pay you for what 3 ou've done. I don't 'care for the Change, and I don't tbiak I'll have tho other viaker off to-day. Go >& evening te jou f