Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-12
THE LONDON MURDERS.
The Most Horrible Series of
Crimes of Modern Times.
Numerous Women Butcherea by
a Midnight Assassin.

Whitechapel is one of the eastern suburbs
of the metropolis of London. 1t lies along
the river Thames and contains the Tower of
London. In this district there has lately
been committed series of crimes that rival
in enormity all that has ever been told be-
fore, either in fact or in fiction.
Since last April eight women have been
murdered under circumstances of such pecu
liar atrocity that all seem to point to some
one person as the perpetrator. All were dis
Solute women, and the mutilations of their
bodies were all OF similar character. Their
Threats were cut, and they were stabbed and
cut otherwise in a most horrible manner.
Three of these murders occurred between
the first week in August and the first week
in September. and all England has been
aroused to a pitch of excitement and trepida-
ton rarely seen in any community,
The whole police power of the king
dom has been brought to bear on
the detection of these crimes Va
riOus theories have been prOpOunded
in respect to these horrors, some suppo5Ing
from their similarity that one person has
committed them all; others that several per-
sons have been concerned in them together,
and others that the enOrmity of the first
crime has led to limitations of it. Since the
beginning of this century there have been
fifty mysterious murders in this country and
in England the perpetrators OF which have
never been discovered.
late dispatch gives the following particu-
lars:
The eighth victim of the Whitechapel
fend has been found, and all London is in
state of frenzy. The butcher who gloats in
his ferocities and delights in the fendish
mutilatiOn of human bodies is still at large.
The latest victim discovered was evidently
murdered some weeks ago, and the frightfully
butchered and decOmpOsed body was found
in different locality from any of the other
unfortunates who have fallen under the bane
of this mysterious fiend, who can with inn
munity perpetrate his awful crimes and ter
rorize a class of London's citizens.
The newest revelation suggests the thought
that already he has executed his awful threat.
''Fifteen before l stop" was marked on the
body of the first victim, and already eight
have been found. Six of them were
the seventh at New Castle on Tyne
but the eighth, and that not a recent
one, is found in section not here
tofnre invaded by this maniac, whose record
of mutilaton and butchery appals great
metropolis, battles the police and creates
CONSERVATION in government circles.
Early Tuesday morning the body was found
on the embankment of the Thames where
the Grand Opera House was to be erected.
The person who discovered the eighth vic
tim recOiled in horror at the sight bead
less trunk of woman, mutilated and gaShed
beyond the conception of the most blood
thirsty, lay on the bank in an advanced
state of decomposition.
The scene of the murder is, in the cay time,
one Of the busiest localities in London. Thou
sands pass there at all hours of the day,
hundreds of drays move in continuous pro
cess on, and many of the large business
places of the city are located there.
London is terror stricken as it has not been
for a generation, and demands that some
thing be done. So suspicious looking char
acters, and they can be found by the thou
sands in the East End, are taken into
tody in a laundering way, held for an hour
or two until they can establish an alibi, and
then discharged
The curious disposition to connect the
crimes with an American has been carried to
au absurd extreme. "An American hat"
IAN American medical student" Ameri-
can what not!
Hordes of people rush to the dark, damp
quarters where the murders have been com
mitted, by day and night. The wanderers
men and women, who have always been
about those streets, are there yet, having
nowhere else to 60 Other people, drawn by
curiosity, go to see-what! They see
nothing But now and again comes new
murder It happened, perhaps, while the
crowd was still gaping about; yet no one saw
or knew of it, and the assassin has vanished
as completely as one of the grotesque shadow
figures made in the fog by the uncertai ]
light from the street lamps