The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-10-11
A DETECTIVE.
An Interesting Story Which Calls
up Old Crimes.
TheBl o ody Butohery in Austin
Paralleled In London With
Thrilling Coincidents.
THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVE.

THE STATESMAN mentioned Tuesday u {
arrival of Memphis detective in the city,
who took charge of a man by the name OF
Anderson, arrested by Detective Chenne-
vile the Saturday before.
The STATESMAN, however, did not men,
ton the Memphis detectives companion.
1t was not necessary at the time. In
truth, The STATESMAN didn't know of this
companion Monday.
He was stumbled on accidently at a
late hour of the night, and, strange to say,
he was an old acquaintance and recogni-
tioDs were mutual.
WHY HE is HERE.
"What in the world are you doing in
the city, and especially what are you do
ing here at this hour?" asked the reporter
after the usual congratulations had passed.
in here in the ordinary run of my
business as detective, and I've been
reading long account of the Whitec ha-
pei murders in London, and the similarity
of the crimes to those committed in this
city some two years ago set me to think
ing, and l strolled out Eto muse over the
remarkable coincidents. You know 1 took
great interest in the mysteries here, and
you know my opinion of them" said the
detective.
81 know do" replied the reporter; shut
there is one thing connected with the whole
affair which you have persistently refused
to reveal, notwithstanding you promised
to do so the first time we met. Do you
remember the promlse?"
eyes, but the lime is not ripe for that
revelation, and don't care to talk about
1t; there is something so insufferably hor-
rible about the whole thing"
THE HORRIBLE MURDERS.
"What 1 was thinking ABOUT to night
was those London murders"
"What about them?"
"Come and sit down in this doorway
and I'll tell you. Have cigar?" And
one of Harrelfs fragrant Habanas was
presented to the reporter.
You see," said the detective, "the re-
cent crimes in London known as the
Whitechapel murders, which have caused
all London to stand aghast are precisely
identical with those in this city two years
ago. It's now been nearly four weeks
since the first murder was committed
under most extraordinary circumstances.
Extraordinary, because so incompre-
hensible and mysterious"
WONDERFUL COINCIDENCE.
"There have been five of these bloody
butcheries in London during the past few
weeks, the last two, as you have seen in
the dispatches, occurring Sunday night
No
which calls up the Austin tragedies, is that
all the victims have been females. Each
and every one. have been wounded about
the head. So were the Austin victims.
None of the London victims were known
to have an enemy. Neither were the Aus
tin victims. Some of the London victims
bore evidence OF having had an instrument
run into one ear and so did the sAustin
victims. In one of the London murders
the murderer was frightened off before
his mutilation and causing
death, and so one of the murderers here in
Austin was frightened off before complet-
ing his work, and the victim fingered sew
eral days and then died. The last two
murders IN London, which occurred Sun
day night, September 80, or just four days
age, were remarkably like the last two here
in Austin on that CHASTITY Christmas eve
night. The victims we're killed about the
same hour of the night, and when found
were almost identically in the same posi-
tion as the two Austin victims. There
was profuse flow of blood, yet the fiend
made his esca pc without leaving so much
as track. And so it was here in Austin.
In the London murders there was no out
cry or alarm from the victims, nor were
there any here in Austin.
"Are the coincidents not remarkable
"They are wonderful" replied the re-
porter. GLOW do you account for them?"
81 can't, You know from my papers
that have had long experience in my
business, but these things are beyond my
comprehension"
"Were each of the London women and
Zach of the Austin women slaughtered by
he same person?"
II hardly think So"