Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-08
STILL UNCAPTURED.
The Whitechapel Fiend Not Yet in
the Hands of the Police.
LONDON Is TERRoRIzED.
The Mysterious American Physician
IdentIfled-A Theory That the NTur-
derer Is Looking for the elixir OF
Life"-No One Now I'm Custody.

LONDON, Oct 6-The horrors OF White-
chapel are no blacker than they were week
ago, but the terror in the district and public
excitement are not whit decreased. The
maniac murderer i still in the district, and
no one knows when he viii select another
victim for his merciless mutilation. IL is
learned from Scotland Yard man engaged
in working on the case that the mysterious
American who was here few months ago
offering money for specimens of the parts
taken from the bodies of the victims has been
discovered. He is reputable physician OF
Philadelphia with a large practice, who was
over here preparing medical work ON speci-
&c diseases He went TO the Kings college
and Middlesex hospitals, asked for specimens
and merely said that he was willing to
pay well, if he could not get them otherwise.
The statement that he offered 500 each, or
named any other large sum, seems TO have
been n delusion of the coroner. These facts
have been given to the police by an eminent
London physician, who saw great deal or
the Philadelphia doctor when he was here,
but he would not divulge the information on
a written guarantee from Gen. Sir Charles
Warren that neither his name nor the name
of the physician in question should bc given
to the public. He said that the doctor had
gone back to America, and that his mission
here was purely of legitimate nature.
An American who used to live in New
York, anl who now keeps an herb shop in
the Whitechapel district, was visited by q
detective who asked il he had sold any unus-
ual compound of herbs to a Customer since
August Similar inquiries have been made
at other shops in the neighborhood. The
basis of this investigation has a startling
Shakespearian flavor. An eminent engineer
in London suggested to the police
the theory that the murderer was a med
ical maniac trying to find the elixir OF
life, and was looking for the essential ingredi-
ent in the parts taken from the murdered
bodies-that like the witches in Macbeth"
he spent his time over the bubbling caldron
of hellbroth made of CORY ingredients in
looking for the charm. The fact that the
police are wasting time in looking up wild
theories like this only shows the utter alb
sence of anything like clew. The widest
rumors are credited TO the exclusion of sound
ideas. The Whitechapel district is swarming
with detectives, some disguised as laborers,
talking with loose women and endeavoring
to find out from them something to give the
police tangible basis to work on
Some of the private detective agencies,
tempted by the SS, 600 reward obtained from
private sources, have got decoy women ON
the streets, but all is of no avail. Innumer-
able arrests have been made, but no one Is
now in custody. Meanwhile Sir Charles
Warren pays no attention to the public
camor for his resignation. The very quail
ties of his character which make him ready
TO resign if thwarted by his superior turn
him into leech in holding on when he boz
lieves that he has done his duty, even though
his purpose is not attained. But in'the police
department itself Sir Charles Warren has
started an inquisition. He suspects-and
probably with good reason-members of his
own force of writing letters to the newspa-
pers about him, and has been making a big
row about it, He made it rule this week
that every newspaper man calling at Scot
land Yard must register his name and busi-
ness in book
Every now and then some of the secret
agents of Scotland Yard in America send
over information which puts the Americans
in England and those who happen to be ON
the way across in lots of trouble The pas
sengers arriving this week have been sur
prised at the vigilance with which their bag
gage has been examined. Probably Richard
Kilkenny, on the Gallia, who had revolver
and ammunition taken from him at Queens
town and was arrested, would have got
through all right two weeks ago. Three
sharp men are told off in London to do
nothing but watch Americans here Three
days ago gentleman from Trenton was fol-
lowed all over London by one OF them, who
called at the hotel in the evening and asked
him for his card A Tennessee lady called
twice at Consul General Walters Office ON
business, and then a detective dropped
around to find out who she was. He said
that he had seen her talking to a man on the
street who was suspected of being a dyna-
inter.