The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-11-15

overcome and left the city and took u,
his abode with his father near Fiskville.
He numbered his friends by scores, and
so far as known, had not an enemy in al
the world.
Early one morning about eight year
ago a milkman, hurrying into the cit.
from the direction of Fiskville, had hi
horses to SHE at something in the road.
1t was very early, but it was clear
bright, crisp winters morning with tn,
moon riding high up in the heavens
Everything could be distinctly seen, anC
the driver of the milkwagon stopped, and
looking back, discerned a man lying OIL
the highway.
Thinking possible he was drunk he go
out of his wagon to rouse him up and
move him from the road.
1t was Black Davis, stark dead.
He had been murdered. His head was
crushed in and was CHASTITY sight, A
couple of large stones had
been used and they were
covered with blood and mats of hair.
As in the case of August Whitman no
clue was left, and to this blessed hour the
affair is a profound mystery.
Then came the horrible assassinations
of three years ago where all the victims
we're women, as has been the case in Lon
don during the past four or five weeks.
In the crimes of three years ago skilled
detectives were employed, but without
discovering even a clue. People were
alarmed. when is this thing going to
end" was asked on all sides, as it is now
being asked across the waters. Blood
hounds were used here as the7 have been
used in London, but even they failed to
follow the murderers.
The last crime in London was com
mitted last Friday morning, the victim
being woman named Mary Jane Kelly
Her body was literally hacked to pieces,
and the London detectives have no doubt
at all that it is the work of the person who
has been known throughout the world as
the "Whltechapel murderer" The mys-
terry in this case is as deep as that of the
preceding crimes. The ferd got away
without leaving the slightest clue. He
chose his time well. At the mo-
ment when Bowyer discovered the
murdered body that gorgeous annual nui
sance which goes by the name of the Lord
Mayors show, blocking up the traffic of
the great city for hours, was being organ
lied near the Mansion house, scarcely a
mile away. Nearly 100000 people were
packed in the streets between the Mansion
house and Trafalgar square, with nearly
every policeman in the city posted along
the curb to keep them in order. The rigid
police patrol maintained in Whitechapel
since the last murder in October was re-
Taxed for one day, and on that day the as
sassin struck down another victim.
SOME THEORIES.
Like it was in Austin there are no end
of theories in London, and the latest
oablegrams give the following:
at appears that cattle boats bringing
live freight to London usually come into
the Thames Thursdays or Fridays, and
leave again for the continent on Sundays
or Mondays. 1t has already been a matter
of comment that the revolving crimes
have been committed at the end of the
week, and an opinion has been formed
among some of the detectives that the
murderer is drover or butcher employed
on one of these boats, of which there are
many, and that he periodically appears
and disappears with one of the
steamers. This theory is held to be of
much Importance by those engaged
in the investigation, who be-
lieve that the murderer does not reside
either in Whitechapel or even in this coun-
try at all. 1t is thought that he may be
either a person employed upon one of
these boats or one who is allowed to travel
by them, and inquiries have for some time
been directed to follow up this theory.
At inquests over previous victims the
coroners expressed the opinion that the
knowledge of anatomy possessed by the
butcher would have been sufficient to en-
able him to find and cut out parts, which,
in several cases, we're distracted. A
similar theory is that the man is Malay
cook on steamers running to Mediterran-
can ports. But so far IL is all theory.
There are few facts except that the wouan
has been murdered and the murderer is
still free.
That is precisely the condition of things
az they existed in Austin. There we're no
facts except that the women had been
murdered.
Is the Austin murderer more cruel,
more cunning, more blood thirsty in