Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-11
New Series, Vol. %, No. Al.
THE WH1TECHAPEL MURDERS.

THE WH1TECHAPEL MURDERS.
New York Tribune.
THE Whitechapel series of murders is
without parallel in atrocity and blood
thirstiness. Within few weeks six
women of the lowest class have been
butchered in the streets of London be-
tween midnight and dawn. The meth
cd of slaughter in every instance has
been the same; the victims throat has
been cut and her body horribly mutila-
ted; and the murderer, having done his
work, noiselessly and by stealth has es-
capped observation. A seventh murder
of a SIMILAR nature has been committed
near Newcastle, in the north of England.
This may have been crime of imita-
tiOn, the published details of the earlier
atrocities having stimulated a morbid
thirst for blood in some half -crazed fiend
at distance from London. The other
six crimes are Enthusiastically the work
of one man. 1t may be surmised that
the first murder was not deliberately
planned, but was the result of a sudden
outbreak of passion or frenzy. The IA
cility with which the police were baflled
probably tempted the murderer to re-
peat the crime in lodging house. The
third and fourth murders followed after
shorter intervals, one in a blind alley
and the other in back yard. While
the vampires appetite for blood has in
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cess in accomplishing his fiendish pur-
poses with dexterity and dispatch and
in eluding pursuit and suspicion has
emboldened him The murders ON Sun
| day morning were committed in the
open streets, only few minutes walk
from great thoroughfare.
The medical testimony indicates a
certain degree of crude dexterity in dis
sections, the long knife with which the
throat is cut being apparently the only
instrument used. The murderer may
have had surgical experience and medi-
cal education; but his work is done with
such roughness and haste as to leave no
traces of professional skill and to sug
gest only the ravages of beast of prey.
He must be powerful man, physically,
for the victim is helpless in his clutches,
and no outcries are ever heard. He
must also be familiar with every alley
and corner of the Whitechapel district
in order to escape so easily with his gar
ments that must be spattered with
blood. From the narrowness of the cir
Gle in which the operations are conduct
ed it may be surmised that he lives in
the heart of that section. Whether sane
Ut insane, he has sufficient cunning to
disarm suspicion when he meets his vic
tins, and to dispatch and mangle them
so quickly as to render escape practiea-
bic. 1t is probable that he derives keen
satisfaction from his success in battling
the vigilance of the police and in crea-
ting panic in the East End of London.
The double crime on Sunday morning
may have been planned as a master
stroke of murderous enterprise in view
OF the futile close of the inquest and the
helpleSSness of the police. Then again,
the second murder may have followed
the first in consequence of interruption
of the hideOuS process of dissection.
The murderer may have considered the
first crime unsatisfactory. since he lack
ed time to complete the work of mutila-
tion. His thirst for blood may have
impelled him to hunt down second
victim before daylight, and to be more
thorough.
1t is simply amazing that so atrOciOuS
a series of butcherieS has escaped the
of the London police. The
radius from the center of the White
chapel district where the six mangled
bodies have been found can be meas
ured in Broadway from Chambers to
Canal street.
B. P. HUTCHINSON, the man who has
been manipulating the corner in wheat
at Chicago for the past week, was born
near Danvers, Mass, in 1928, and started
in life on farm. Agriculture not being
to his liking, he went to Lynn, and after
the making of shoes, started a
factory. He failed in 1857 and then turn
ed his face to the west, locating in Mil
Eaukee. That town being too slow for
lim, he came to Chicago in 1859 and
went on the Board of Trade, his men,
Dership costing him $5. In year or SO he
NCtS MOilu SIOO,ONU anu uttO BcAAO CNCA1
lebt he owed in Lynn. He is man of
keen foresight, indOmitable will, great
and boundless nerve, caring for
10 one, and intent only ON making mon
". He has helped many man on the
BOARD, though his philanthropy has al
Yays Injured to Instrumental benefit. He
las two sons, Charles L., President of the
Board of Trade, and Isaac, and lives at
he Century Club, an institution OppO-
lite the Board of Trade, founded and
arranged by himself. He cares for moth
ng save buSines, and deteStS social
rivolities. He is worth probably $40,
100000, one -tenths of which has been
made within the past week.
SAND what kind of wife has Charlie
,ot?"
"a very superior woman; educated
efined, stylish, and all that sort of thing"
"And is she at all domestic? Does
he do her own work."
mo, think not; but she has good
eal to say about the way other women
10 theirs"
LITTLE 6-year old Maud Haywood
Iearlv met the fate of Ginevra Mt Green
,ort, l.. l., the other day. When reseu-
d from big Saratoga trunk in which
he had hidden, she was almost suffoca-
ed. A spring lock had snapped when
he stepped in the trunk to hide, and
7as only discovered by accident.
A YANKEE has established terrapin
arm about 60 miles from Mobile. An
nelosure of three acres in extent con-
aims several bitches 100 feet in length
nd 10 feet in width, and these are I'LL