Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-02
TWO MORE MURDERS.
London Again Excited Over Terrible
and Mysterious Crimes.
A SUSPECT UNDER ARREST.
He Wears an American SLOUGH Hat and
Is Defiant-He Cannot Give a Salts
factory Account of His Re-
cent Movements.

LONDON, Oct 1.-TWO more women have
been murdered in Whitechapel The crimes
were committed within a few minutes of
each other, and were evidently the work OF
the same man whose crimes have already
paralyzed London with fear.
A man was arrested at midnight on sus-
picion of having committed the terrible muir
ders in Whitechapel
He is tall man, with dark beard. He
wore an American slouch hat, by which he
was traced from the locality of the last muir
der, where it is reported he was seen on
Saturday night, to Albert Chambers on
Union street, in the Borough, South London,
where he was found The Borough is across
the river and far away from the Whitechapel
quarter.
When arrested he was unable to give any
account of himself during the previous night
He assumed defiant attitude.
The police are investigating his antecedents
and movements, of which, it is said, he re-
buses to give any information.
Very few additional facts have been OBJ
tanned Both murders were discovered about
the same time, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the
morning, and both victims, as in the other
three cases. were women of the lowest and
most debauched character. The first victim,
discovered in a stable yard in Berners street,
adjoining club room frequented by Russian
Socialists, has been fully identified as that OF
Elizabeth Stride, or "Hippy Lip Annie" as
she was more commonly known, notorious
dissolute woman of that neighborhood, who
had been seen in the street only a short time
hprevious
Identification was rendered easy in her
case, because the fiend who had killed her had
not resorted to his usual mutilating process,
having probably been frightened off by some
passer by.
This fact led the police at first to believe
that the deeds had not been committed by
the mysterious criminal, but they have now
changed their minds about it. The throat of
the victim had been cut from ear to ear with
one clean stroke, and instead of disembowel-
ling her the murderer had finished his bloody
work by giving her several powerful blows
upon the head with a blunt instrument,
which left its marks in deep, jagged gashes.
Coroner Baxter, who in the investigation
of one of the other murders told the jury that
he thought the criminal was an American,
has charge of this case, but he is not so free
in expressing his opinion as formerly. In
fact, he is as much mystified as any of the
other authorities.
1t was the second murder, however, which
was discovered in Mitre square, only five
minutes walk from Berners street, that has
filled the people of London with more horror
than all the other crimes of the unknown
wretch combined. Such ghastly and sicken-
ing mutilation was never seen before, and the
policeman who first discovered the body
tainted at the horrible sight.
The victim was lying upon her back, with
her throat cut from ear to ear, the stroke, in
fact, nearly severing the head from the body;
the nose and the left ear shaved completely
off, and the face crsscrosscd with gashes
from the sharp instrument in most hor-
rible manners and completely defying identi-
fication.
In addition to this the clothing had been
pulled up to she breast and the same razor
like knife had ripped open the abdomen with
two long slashes. The intestines had been
torn out by the brutal butcher and some of
them twisted about the neck of the victim.
There was blood in every direction
There was nothing to show in what direc-
tion the murderer had retreated or what
manner of being it could be-
No steps have been taken to identity the
body, except general description which the
| police have issued
There is hope that tattoo mark of a figure
's4n on her left forearm may lead to her iden-
| tification.
| Several vigilance committees have been
organized in the Whitechapel district, and
the people have resolved that if the police
viii not protect them they viii supply the
deficiency themselves.
That the end has not yet come is the uni
versal belief. 1t will be recalled that when
the body of the fourth victim was found in
| Hamburg street the fiend wrote in blood on
the wall: Fifteen BEFORE surrender Six
| lives having been taken, nAne raore viii prob
ably be sacrificed before this monsters appe-
tite for blood is appeased-provided the po-
| lice are not successful In running him down
The lord mayor of London has offered e5OC
reward for the arrest of the Whitechapal
murderer Drs. Fqtbes, Winslow and Sii
Risdon Bennett and other medical experts
express themselves as more than. ever con
WINGED that the perpetrator of the crimes was
/ homicidal lunatie