Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-11-10
VhitechappeI Again.
The Fiend of the London
Sums at Work.
HIS LATEST DEVILIsH ATROCITY.


The Crime shrouded in the Usual
Mystery and Committed Indoors This
Time and IA Few Yards from a Police
s Station-Horrible Details.
LONDON, Nov. 10.-A murder which took
place in Spitalfields, Whitecapel district,
yesterday morning, is undeniably contin-
uation OF the series which was for while in
terrupted for want of opportunity or inclIn-
alton. In this case the murderer worked
leisurely, as is made evident by the fact that
the killing was done in room fronting on
the street. on the ground floor, and within
few yards of a temporary police station,
whence officers issued hourly to patrol the
district The house the murder was COM
rnitted in is situated in Miller s court. The
first door at the end and on the right of the
passage opens into tiny, damp room on
level with the pavement The landlord of
this and neighboring rooms in John McCar-
thy, who keeps a little shop in Dorset street
on the side of the passage. About year
ago he rented it to woman who looked
about 80 She was popular among the
females of the neighborhood, shared her
beer generously, and went under the title Of
Mary Jane Mccarthy. Her landlord knew
that she had another name, Kelly, but her
friends had not heard of it Kelly and
Mary Jane had been married in the manner
which is considered satisfactory in White
chapel They had not gone to the expense
of a license hut published the fact of their
matrimony by living in one small room and
sharing their joy and sorrow and drunken
ness together.
Mary Jane took up her residence in the
| little room in Miller court when Kelly went
away Since then her life has been that of
all the women about her. Thursday night
| she went out as usual, and was seen at vari-
| GUS low beer shops in Commercial street. In
those resorts she was known, not as Mary
| Jane, her home name, but as Fair Emma"
title bestowed in complimentary allusion
| to her appearance. At last, just before mid
night, she went home with some man who
appears to have dissuaded her from making
good night visit, as was her custom, at
drinking place nearest her room. No desrrip-
ton whatever can be obtained of this man.
Right opposite the passage leading to Mary
James room there is big and very preten-
tious lodging house, where the charge is
fourpence. Some people congregated about
the door at midnight are sure they saw
man and woman, the latter being Mary Jane,
stop TO laugh at poster which offers el00
reward for the Whitechapel murderer The
man must have enjoyed the joke, for he him.
self was the Whitechapel murderer beyond
all doubt
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning three hor-
rified policemen, who had first looked in
through Mary James window and then
drank big glasses of brandy to steady them
selves, were breaking in her door with a
pickax. The Whitechapel murderer had
done his work with more horrible thorough
ness than ever before The miserable
woman's body was literally scattered all
over her little room. Almost every CON
ceivable mutilation had been practiced on
the body. The woman's nose was cut Off and
the face gashed, she had been completely
disemboweed, as had all the murderer's
former victims, and all the intestines had
been placed upon a little table, which, with
a chair and the bed, constituted all the fur
niture in the room. Both the woman's breasts
had been removed, and placed also on
the table. Large portions of the thighs had
been cut away. and the head was almost
completely severed from the body. One leg
also was almost completely cut off. The
mutilation was so frightful that more than
an hour was spent by the doctors in en-
deavoring to reconstruct the woman's body
from the pieces so as to place 1t in a coffin
and have it photographed.
The poor womaH's fragments put together
as skillfully as possible, are lying in the
Houndsditch mortuary in a scratched and
dirty shell of coffin ofte1 used before. The
mortuary is in a graveyard back vl gioomy
old Houndsiitch church, and not pleasant
spot late at night. While the body was be
ing carried from the scene of the murder
thousands crowded as near as the polics
would allow and gazed with lifted caps ant
plying faces at the latest victim.
Gen Sir Charles Warren was early on tn
scene and told reporter that all the pre-
caution in the world could not prevent tn
; work of such murderers The sole ehanct
remaining to the police, he said, was t.
: catch them redhanded and their change Of
tactics increased the difficulty. In the ope,
air, where the killing had been hitherto, tn
chance of their apprehension was slight, bu
in the case of an indoor murder, such as tn
last, the hope of arresting the per
petrator was almost barren OF fruitior
This latest murder will undoubtedly caus
large number of arrests on suspicion, but tina
, the monster will be brought to bay is mai
ter Of extreme doubt since he has left n
clues not worked over by the officers i
!, vestigating the previous cases.
The most annoying fea ture of the case
that the arrest of number of innocent pei
:, sons on suspicion will have to be repeated
: Tha opinion of Archibald Forbes and Nj
; Winslow that the assassin is bomicids
: maniac is confirmed by the latest murde
and the predictlon has become general thu
another murder will soon follow.