The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-11-17
THE wHITECHAPEL WOMAN BUTCHER

THE EWHITECHAPEL WOMAN BUTCHER
Review ofthc Series of Horrible Crimes.
is.. IN. o. City Item.l
The latest victim of the bloody butch
er in London was mutilated In the
same horrible manner as were those Of
the women murdered In Whiteehspel.
Qlse appearance of the remains was
frightful, and the musilation vas even
greater than In the previous cases. The
head had been severed aud placed be-
meath one OF tho arms. The body had
baen disemboweled, and the flesh was
torn from the thighs. The womb aud
other organs were missing. The skin
had been torn of the forehead and
into the stomach.
The victim, like ali the others, was q
prostitute. She was married and her
husband was porter. They had lived
together at spasmOdic intervals. Her
name is believed to have been Lizzie
Tjsber, but to most Of the habitutes of
the haun,s she visited was known rs
Mary Jane. She had q room in the
uOU00 ~UCX0 1uo "05 kAUkOoASOs ouO
carried lAtchkey, and no one knows
at what hour she entered the house, and
probably no one saw the man who &C.
compained her.
STORY OF THE KILLINGS.
The revolving story Of these unparal-
leied murders is now familiar to the
world. No murderer has ever been CIV
en- such prominence or given rise to as
many theories and surmises as this
,aau who Is supposed to be accountable
for the seven bloody murders.
The place he has chosen FOR the ex-
ecution Of his crimes and the victims
hs has singled out can not be equaled
anwyhere on earth for dcpravity or
vice. The place designated as White
chapel is the resort of the scum from
tue lowest grade of humanity and the
terror of the London police. Its vast
population inhabit the territory lying
north and south of the WhttechapeI
road, that broad outlet Of the great city
stretching far away from Aldgate to
Bow, where 1t assumes the name Of the
district which 1t traverses, and on
through Stanford and Illford into the
a>srt OF the agricultural districts OF Es-
sex. The population Of Whitechapei
may be broadly divided into three
classes: The fairly well-to.do trades.
men, the Industrious but ill-paid arti-
sans and the hopeless, homeless, helpless
thousands of unemployed who drag on
an existence from day to day as devoid
of ease and comfort as any OF Gods
creatures on this broad earth. Common
lodging houses abound In Whitechapel,
and wretched and miserable as are eve-
~ variety Of these refugees of the desti-
tu,e and desolste, the East End, "pad-
ding kens" enjoy an unenvlable nOtOri.
ETY. as the filthiest and most disrepu-
table Of their kind.
REVOLVING VICE.
In Whitechapel vice short Of lis most
attractive, II fnaeretricious surroundings,
Hourishes in its most repulsive and re-
voting form. After niehtfall the broad
pavements Of the main thoroughfares
are thronged with degraded women,
who live only to realize, as best they
may, the means to procure a nights
shelter, u mouthful of food and a sup
ply Of aory liquor, wherein they may
drown the recollection of what they
are, the memory OF what they we're.
In nine cases out of ten the vocation of
these utterly abandoned and wholly
depraved women Is robbery, pure and
simple. Houses abound in the narrow,
dingy streets lying of the main thor
ou8bfares in which every facility is
afforded for hocussing and robbing the
already half>drunken prey OF these
painted jezebals. Scarcely day passes
but tale Of daring robbery is anfolded
in the adjacent police court, In which
these women and their contemptibleI
male companions figured as the des-
poilers Of inebriated sailors or working
men.
This Is the place where these disrepu-
table women have met In every case q
sudden aud terrible death, and were left
by the fiend mangled almost beyond
recognition and ali mutilated alike.
THE FIRST MURDER.
The first murder occurred some IL
months ago, and as the victim was one
Of the poor drunken, debauched women
who live and die uDnoticed, no atten-
tion save brief report and a hurried
inquest, was paid to tho case. 1t was
oniy a Whitechapel "uufortunate"
murdered by one of her kind. A week
passed and the case was forgotten.
THE SECOND HORROR.
A second murder revived for time
the story of the first, and an idea
s,lS fx~I~ eo1