New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-11
THE WHITECHAPEL FIEND.
PARDON OFFERED TO ANY ACCOMPLICE HE
MAY HAVE

MAY HAVE.
BLIND EFFORTS OF THE LONDON POLICE TO DIS
COVER THE MYSTERIOUS MURDERER-A
REVIEW OF HIS CRIMES.
London. Nov. 10.-General Warren. Chief oil tne
Metropolitan Police, has issued a proclamation
offering free pardon TO any accomplice ,hc
Whitechapel murderer may have had, provided ne
will give information which will lead to the
murderers apprehension.
1t is learned that the woman whose mutllateu
body was found in the Dorset-st house yester-
day was native of Limerick. Ireland. one
migrated to Wales, where she married a collier
who was subsequently killed by an explosion
After that she drifted to London.
As announced yesterday the whitechapel mutilator
has again emerged from his retirement and another
hacked and gled body has TO be added 10 the
already considerable which the as yet unknown
epicure in laceraon has contrved to po up without
fear Of any interference on the part OF the Lonuoh
police When the corpse of the eighth victim was
discovered on the Thames Embankment, about nVe
weeks ago. IL was suggested that the murderer, urea
OF the nonotonous success attending his blood hunt
amongst the most forlorn and friendess and piniui
of all human creatures, might, In search OIL ohahse
and recreation, try higher range of work and seek
victims amongst women of better condition OF ITO
than those among whom nc hdu scFNcu MS lioHtia''
in murder This prediction has In part been verified.
Lizzie Fisher the market porers cast of wife, whose
body was found on Friday morning. Its parts scattered
about the floor, tables and chairs Of her bedroom
in Dorsetst, Spalfods, was about one degree higher
in the scale of immortality than her
eight predecessors. As set OH 10
this social advantage the murderer had subjected her
a little extra mutlation before leaving her. Other
wise the method of murder precisely similar to
at ADD ed m he of
for doubt that the crime was committed by the same
hand. Dispatches declare that the London police have
enlisted the services of boodhouuds In their search for
the murderer and that these sagaclouS animals, after
wandering heplessly up and down few streets, lifted
up their heads and bayed their inability to carry the
any further This result had long ago been fore
by those who read the ludcrous picture presented
TO Londoners weeks ago, when hapess police
detailed to take exercise and canter up and
down the Whitechapel Road, with two star blood
hounds, specially engaged for the purpose Of detection
in anticipation OF the next murder that might como
along one day the bloodhounds broke the bonds
that held them to their blue uniformed captor and
disappeared and Ihcn London treated to the cd
flying spectacle of the police pursuing tho escaped
dogs all tho city and the crowd chasing the police
WHY THE DETECTIVES CAN DO NOTHING.
Great Indignation has been expressed here and in
England respecting the too-apparn official helpless
ness and ignorance Of the elementary methods OF do
tection really the poor police detective is not to
blame lie Is held down by iron bound rules and regu
lations, outside of which he dare not stir. Some Of
these rules were In common acceptance during the
Middle Ages, while the concentrated genius OF Earls-
wood might have been expended on the framing of
the remainder If really clever officer, resolving to
cast aside all official Tammels, and relying only on his
natural acumcn, go TO work and discover the
murderer It is all but certain that he would for his
pains receive a rough snub from headquarters for
. ~ Hfc fnctr
lies the whole secret of the immunity from arrest OF
the Whltechapcl murderer
The history of the reign of horror which now par
ayzes all London with panic of fear reaches back for
a year. The mutilator's first success was achieved
early In the month of October 1857 when In the dark
of the morning the frlghfuy lacerated body of
a woman found lying in the passageway OF
narrow alley in the immediate vicinity of Bishopsgatc
ST., East. The victim elderly woman gin soaked
de graded and No appeared be aware of her
real name her friends If any, had long ago disappeared
She stood alone among her Kind homeless, shame
less wanderer. Nobody cared about her. nobody made
the least effort TO find out why she murdered or
TO discover her murderer They regarded It as the
most natural and fitting kind OF death under the cir
cumstanoes. shoveled her body underground, and
forgot the case within two days. The body had been
buried about ten months when, August Martha
Turner another Of the fallen, found the first
floor landing of the George Yard Buildings, common
lodging house the east side of COmmercialst,
sptalhelds.
THE SECOND CASE ATTRACTS ATTENTION.
The similarity between the first and second Of the
muNcls sufficiently striking to attact considerable
attention from the officials One fact settled con-
cusvcly by medical testimony; in both cases the
murderer had seized the victim from behind, and cut
her throat with one long, heavy stroke from razor
or sharp knife hence concluded that the two muir
dcls had been committed by the hand Martha Tr-
ner had nearly forty stabs Tho undcI clothing
had thrown up the shoulders and tho lntos
tines laid bare by means of deep, Jagged cut AS in
the previous part of the body had been cleany
cut away and removed with perfect surgical skill On
this the public began to suspect the existence
where in the city of mcdco maniac. After this
discovery the murderer took rest OF two three
weeks and re began operations with Mary Ann Mich
OILS, a woman about forty 1.-TWO years old. Here again
was the gaping throat wound the cuts the abdO
men and the completing mutilations And here there
appeared the astounding circumstanc that the muir
derer had actually carried the body considerable
distance from the place of the murder that whore
II discovered.
Eight days breathing space, eight days Of excite
ment and turbulent clamors from tho public eight
days blind stumbling, stupid laundering and impreg
nabc apathy the part of the police and then Annie
Chapman lay bathed IN blood In the backyard OF No
20 Hanbury-st a short hOroushfare running parallel
with and about one block behind WLitcchapcl road, on
the north side The circumstances of this murder dii
fered in no respect those that had preceded IT,
though It was clearly proved that the deed was accom-
pllshed in the light Of the day, for the reason that
Annie had been seen alive at o'clock on the morn
ing OF her death. The police armed with de-
scrIptlon of the man in whose company she had last
been seen, but two weeks search failed to bring them
any nearer the discovery.
AN ACT WITH 4 CHANGE OF SCENE.
The murderer now seems to have considered tom
porary change OF place desirable, for on september
23 the inhabitants OF the quiet little town Of Gates
hcadon-Tyne in tho far north became aware oi his
presence among them by the discovery In doorway