Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-16
lNorHER wHITECHAPEL MURDER.
The London Monster Claims His Ninth
Victim.

Another revolving Whitechapel murder
Of the same character as the eight preced-
ing ones, startled the people of London last
Friday morning. The victim was an aban-
doned woman of the lowest class. Instead
Of being murdered in the streets as previ-
ous ones had been she was killed in her
own room. The murderer was doubtless a
man whom she picked up on the street and
who was seen to enter her miserable quar-
ters with her the night before. Her body
was cut and mutllated in the most shocking
manner Three bloodhounds belonging to
private citizens were taken to the place
where the body lay and placed on the scent
of the murderer, but they were unable to
keep it for any great distance, and this
e-ble device of the London police for find
ing the murderer was given up.
This last addition TO the number of terri
fying murders Ia the Whitechapel district
mukes the ninth victim who has been
hutchered under the same mysterious cir
cumstances The first Whtechapel mur
Her occurred about year ago. Little no
ice wqs taken ul the crime because of the
character Of the victim, and of the local.
~ where the murder was committed. The
rcuud murder did not occur till August
Inst, but it was undoubtedly the work of
r1e same hand, the woman being mangled
tud mutilated in IA peculiar manner.
The excitement caused among the people
If the East End over the second crime had
hardly begun to subside when third wom-
an was found murdered under the same
revulting circumstances, ON the morning of
August 81 The victims were all of the
same class of fallen women. Then pan
ic Of horror and fear began to seize upon
81 ba Of all
class which the unknown hend seemed to
single out for his awful work The pan
ic was intensified by the murder of a fourth
woman eight days later This time the
woman was butchered in the backyard of
Of No. 20 Hanbury-s st not 100 yards from
the place where one of his former victims
was murdered, On "A wall above the
manged body were written these words
Fifteen before | surrender"
The police were now thoroughly aroused,
but all efforts to track the monster proved
unsuccessful. Scarcely had they begun 70
to relax their efforts before the murderer
struck again, killing his fifth victim on
September 23, at Gateshead, near Newcas
tle-on Tyne. On September 30, at | O'Clock
in the morning, the sixth murdered woman
was found in Berners- st, Whitechapel, but
the murderer had probably been frighten
ed away. as the body was not mutilated as
in all the other cases Fifteen minutes af-
ter discovering the sixth body, the seventh
was found in Mitre Square, Whitechapel
This time the murderer had completed his
work, for the body was mutilated as in
the other five instances. On the day fol
lowing, the eighth body was found on the
Thames embankment in the Whitechapel
district. This last victim, however, had
been dead for some time when found Ac-
cording to his legend on the wall above the
body of the Hanbury-st. victim, there still
remain six unfortunates TO fall before the
mysterious murderer The excitement
which exists in London under such circum-
stances can be imagined The clamor
against the police for their ineiliciency is
tremendous.