Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-04
HALF A DOZEN HORRORS.
Two More Victims Credited to the
Whitechapel Maniac-Intense
Excitement
And Bewildering Theories-Chinamen
Ordered Out of Truckee For Selling
Opium to Indians.
A Negro Shoots Two White Men and il
Exonerated-Irishmen and Italians in
Cutting Scrape.


murdered near the scene of the former
butcheries in Whitechapel Saturday night
have been recognized as dissolute charac-
ters, who have long frequented that vicin-
ity. One of them was found in Berner
street with her throat cut from ear to ear.
The other was discovered lying on Mitre
| square. She, like the first mentioned VIC
tim, had her throat cut but in addition
she had been disemboweled and her nose
had been cut off. The murderer had evil
IDENTIFY been disturbed in his work in
Berner street and had no time to mutilate
the body of his victim. The discovery Of
the bodies completely paralyZed the police
and General Sir Charles Warren, chief
| commissioner, was at once called out of
bed. He repaired Immediately to the
scene of the murder and gave orders to
have the police force in that district REIN
forced.
The first murder occurred shortly after
midnight, in a narrow court leading from
the street and directly beneath the win
dows of socialist club composed of for
eigners. A concert was in progress in the
club rooms at the time and large number
of persons were present, but not a sound
was heard from the victim. The second
murder occurred three quarters of an hour
later in Mitre square, five minutes walk
from the scene of the first tragedy. The
police patrol the square every ten minutes
but the murderer managed to elude them.
| The vigilance committee will resume their
patrol of the district, extending their lines
of watchfulness. The woman murdered
| in Berner street has been identified as
| Elizabeth Strude, a native of Stockholm
and an inmate of a low lodging. The
identity of the other woman has not yet
been established.
London is fever of excitement and the
denizens of Whitechapel are in a state
of terror, owing to the resumption
of the horrible butcheries, the fourth of
which it was hoped and quite generally
| believed, would be the last of the CHASTITY
series. The number of theories advanced
accounting for the murders and seeking to
establish the identity of the murderer is
positively bewildering, but not one of them
is accepted by the police as the correct
one, although the Scotland Yard de-
tectives have nothing to offer
themselves. The absolutely impo-
tent condition of the police in the matter
has led them, however, to catch at straws
in the way of evidence, and the most sig
nificant of these is letter which was re-
ceived at the office of the Central News
| Company Thursday afternoon. The let
ter is Familiarity addressed "Dear Boss"
and signed Jack the Ripper" After
boasting that he had committed all of the
| Whitechapel murders the writer contin-
ues, ~ love my worl, and want to start at
it again. The next job do / shall cut off
the lady's ear and send it to the police.
| Keep this letter back till do bit more
work and then give it out to the police
straight"
A remarkable feature of the Mitre
square murder is that one of the dead
| woman's ears is severed, and this circum-
stance is held to indicate that the real
| murderer wrote the letter. Most of the
! newspapers issued special editions giving
| copious details of the tragedies. Great
| crowds visited the scene of the murders
yesterday.
| CHINAMEN ORDERED AWAY.
TRUCKEE, Cal, Oct. 1.-The town was
| thrown into great excitement yesterday
afternoon by the actions of q Washoe
| Indian, who went upon a bluff overlooking
| the town and fired three shots from his rifle
into town, one shot striking squaw. He
then cast off his clothing and fired again
at the multitude of white people on
the principal street, fortunately harm
ing no one. Citizens then secured
rifles and gave chase. The Indian took
refuge in the rocks and endeavored to
shoot the leader of the party. Another
| member of the posse, who saw the Indian
draw a bead, shot him dead before he
| could fire. This tribe of Indians has been
| troublesome of late, and yesterday it was
! learned that they have been securing
! liquor and opium from Cinnamon here.
| Last evening three hundred citizens waited
| on all the Cinnamon and ordered them to
leave town within twenty-four hours.
Many left last night.
DEFENDING HIS HOME.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 1.-Three white
men, w. j. Smith, Will Eastman and j. E.
| Jordan, all residents of Memphis. took a
| trip on the dummy line to Gills station
yesterday afternoon and were strolling
about when Smith, seeing a mule in the
road, remarked he thought he would take
a ride. As he approached the animal Jim
Conley, a negro, called out to
him to let the mule alone, when
Smith and Eastman started to-
ward him. Conley ran into his house
and shut the door and a second afterwards
a shotgun was thrust through the window
and discharged. The contents struck East
man in the head, killing him instantly.
Smith ran over to where Eastman was,
and as he was bending over the dead body
the other barrel of the gun was discharged
and he was struck in the left side with
several buckshot and mortally wounded.
Conley fed after the shooting. The jury
of inquest held over Eastman exonerated
Conley, who, it was proved, was defending
his house from assault.
IRISH AND ITALIANS FIGHT.
DOVER DEPOT, n. H, Oct. IA scrim-
mage occurred yesterday between Irish
and Italian workmen of the waterworks
during which several of the combatants
were badly cut, and one of them, Pat Car
roll, may die. Several arrests have been
made.
1t has been discovered that the last of
the buffaloes has not yet disappeared from
Montana, and the New York illustrated
papers artist and guide, who are keeping
lone and weary vigil on the bleak and
barren prairie down in the western part of
the Territory, looking for the curiosity,
armed with a field glass and a photo
graphic camera, had just as we'll go home,
as all the romance has been knocked out
of the scheme. Information can be given
them in Helena as to the whereabouts of
quite large herd of the "exterminated"
animals that have made their home in the
Territory for a number of years. and are
still enjoying life in perfect security in an
obscure and uninhabited section, where
they will have an opportunity to
make all the sketches they want
An old miner and prospector was in Fort
Benton the other day and told of a herd Of