St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-01
The White Chapel Murderer
Kills Two More Women in
Eroad Daylight.
With One Sweeping Cut He
Sewers the First's Throat
From Ear to Ear.
The Others Throat Cut, Dis
emboweled and Otherwise
Horribly Mutilated.
Inhabitants of White Chapel
Dismayed and the Police
ParalyZed.
Special Cable to the Globe.


LONDON, Sept. 3O.-London is in
fever of excitement and the deniZens OF
White Chapel are in a state of terror to-
night, OWING to the resumption OF the
horrible butcheries, the fourth of
which, it was hoped, and quite gener-
ally believed, would be the last of the
CHASTITY series. AT an early hour it was
known that another woman had been
murdered, and report was also current
that there was still another victim. This
report proved true. The two victims,
as in the former cases, were dissOlute
women of the poorest class. That the
motive of the murderer was not robbery
is shown by. the fact that no attempt
was made to despoil TIE bodies. The
first murder occurred in narrow
court off Berner street at an early
hour this morning, beneath the
windows of a foreigners socialist club.
A concert was in progress and many
members of the club were present, but
no sound was heard from the victim.
The same process had been followed as
in the other cases. The woman had
been seized by the throat and her cries
choked, and the murderer, with one
sweeping cut, had severed her throat
from ear to ear. A club man on enter
ing the court stumbled over the body,
which was lying only two yards from
the street. A stream of warm blood
was flowing from the body into the gut
ter. The murderer had evidently been
distured before he had time to mutilate
his victim. The second murder was
committed three-quaTterS of an hour
later in Mitre square, five minutes walk
from the scene of the first crime. PO-
licemen patrol the square every ten
minutes. The body of the unfortunate
woman had been disemboweled, the
throat cut and the nose severed. The
heart and lungs had been thrown aside
and the entrails were twisted
INTO THE GAPING WOUND
around the neck. The inclSions show a
rough deXterity. Y York of diSsec-
ton was evidently done with the utmost
haste. Pending the report of the doc
tors it is not known whether or not
portion of the viscera was taken away.
The doctors, after haSty Examination
of the body, said they fought it must
plete the work of ne murderer, who
then had plenty time to escape the
patrol. Mitre So are, the scene of the
second murder, is thOrOughfare.
Many people pass through the square
early on Sunday morning on their way
to pref { for market in the notorious
Petticoat lane. The publicity of the
place adds to the daring of the crime.
The police, who have been severely
criticised in connection with the
White Chapel murders, ARE paralyzed by
these latest crimes. As soon as the
news was received at police headquar-
tiers messenger was dispatched for Sir
Charles Warren, chief commissioner of
police, who was called out of bed, and
at once visited the scene of the murders.
The inhabitants of White Chapel are
dismayed. The vigilance committees
which were formed after the first crimes
were committed had relaxed their efforts
to capture the murderer. At several
meetings held at White Chapel tonight
it was resolved to resume the work of
patrOIling the streets in the district in
which the murders have occurred.
THE POLICE
are positively helpless, and their tacit
admission of failure to md any clue
whatsoever to the perpetrator of the
terrible crimes only serves to add
to the CONSERVATION of the I'M
fortunate creatures whose calling has
manifestly made them the objects of
the inhuman butchers fury. The num-
Der of theories advanced as accounting
for the murders and seeking to establish
the identity of the murder is positively
bewildering, but none of them is ac-
cepted by the police as the correct one,
although the Scotland yard detectives
having nothing more plausible to offer
for themselves. The absolutely impo-
tent condition of the police in the mat
ter has led them, however, to catch at
straws in the way of evidence which, in
ordinary cases, would be spurned by the
self-important borrowers for dyna-
miters and divers for parcels of saw
dust, and the most significant of these
is a letter which was received at the
Office of the Central News company in
the postal deliveries on Thurs
day afternoon. The letter, which
is written in scrawling
hand, is Familiarity addressed
''dear boss" and signed "Jack, the Rip
per-" After Boosting that he commit
ted all of the White Chapel murders, the
writer continues: "Ilove my work and
want to start at it again. The next job
] do L shall cut off the lady's ear and
send it to the police. Keep this letter
back till l do bit more work and then
givei it out to the police straight" A
remarkable feature of the Mitre square
murder is the fact that one Of the dead
woman's ears was nearly severed, and
this circumstance is held to indicate
that the real murderer wrote the letter
Most of the newspapers issued special
editions to-day giving copious details OF
the tragedies and volunteering much
advice to the police which they would
do we'll to follow. Great crowds visited
the scene of the murders to-day and
gazed at the blOod-stained pavement
with a degree of fascination difficult fol
the police to overcome in their efforts Il
keep the highways clear. The lodging
houses, alleys, etc., of the White Chape
district are being secured by detective:
tonight.
DR.. Blackwell, who was called t.
view the remains of the Berner stree
- victim, gave if as his OpiniOn that the