Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-08
1E LONDON HORROR.
1psffs Discuss the Mysterious While
clapsi KurdsFs-Whst Tasy say
About the Atrocities.
|. Hammond, of New York, says the Muir
defer IN a aomicidal Lunatc With
Nature Like q Tigers.
Cincinnati. ENQUIRER.

[ty, says the Whitechspel murders are
ommit:ed BY hom!cldsl lunatic who IL
ike tiger In his nature. II caught, law
loud shield its eyes while society hangs
the msniac. Continuing, the docto,
said;
"Cases Of homicidal insanity are very
common; they are conf aed to no class OF
country, and the books are full of them
TIE Last instance OF the Kind in N3w York
that l recall vas that man, nave for
gotten his name, Wao ran through
Fourteenth street with carpenters
compass in his hand, stsobing every
woman he met. I examined him and
found it plain case OF
HoMICIDAL INSANITY"
"Are people AT ecsed Gais way particu-
lgr,y noticeable?"
'Now, tha:'s just the mistake the Lon
don police are makipg," replied the doc.
tor, sharply; "theY are locking for .
gep1lsiys, uucouta butcher, dripping with
blood and hiding N the cellars about
Wbitechapel. In society he is probably g
mild hammered man. He may move in
the very best circles. he may De known
among bis scq1aintancesf for his modestY,
his refinement, his humanity. he may
even have IN efsminate horror OF bio 3D.
shed and strife. Aad yet, for some one
Of A dcz c.uses-di5ease. or drink or
What-r0L-he may have, ct times, this
irsatiaole desire for blood. My own
opiaion iS," continued the doctor, "that
ne is actusted by some fans.icsl religious
idess. He thinks that he Is doing religion
q service ia
Kidding THE WORLD
CT auch women IS he kills, for in every
cssa they are reported as being prosti
tu.as. The appatlte Increases with iudui-
gsr3e. This Whitechapel lunhtic thinks
RON that lie Is doing service in killing
ignorant, depraved women. Presently IL
viii occur to him to kill women he thinks
bslCng to the same class, but who are in
high life, and i. would not at ell surprise
me L tie next victim is not O D lchess or
q CCu1tess. Then he will be caught"
.iWhst s.e :he symstoms OF homicidal
inssaity?"
"Fhey kre different in difere Mt cases.
Usually the disease Is accompanied by
inability to sleep, rueh CT blood 20 the
the nssd, dizz ,ness, sconfusicn of ideas,
and then delusion."
"Fhe fact that an American ufsring
hundreds Of dollars for austomical speci-
mems is absurd, is 1t not?"
"To the last degree. l see the Coroner
dWelt On 1t IN charging the j1ry. The
specimens referred to can be purchased
in This city In unlimited quantities for 81.
remember once being Visited by gar
Gener. He told me that his nelce kept
house for lin, and, tina: IS he mad raised
he:, he WAS very fond Of her. Oae dag he
WIS filed with sn Impulse to drive
pitcbfork through hsr neck. He was
taking to her at the time, and had the
pi ch:ork in his hand. By tremendous
effort he RETAINED. Several times after
wLrd he felt the sime desire coming ever
hin, and each time 1t grew stronger, and
ct last he made figure with tie neck and
bust Of straw. Whenever the desire 10
STICK his neice in the neck with the pitch
fork came over him he would rush out
and
STAB THE FIGURE.
1 got him into an ssylum, and he was
eventually cured TIE case of D 5msllsrd,
the FrenchmsD, is S noted one, and from
the fact that the victims were all women
it is peculiarly interesting. He used to
advertise for servant girls. When they
came he would lead them OF to some
secluded spot and murder them. There
WAS no other object than msd thirst for
hUnsn blood. He is known to have muir
dered six women in this way, and Is sup
posed to have killed many more whose
bodies were never discovered. H. was
executed. The books sre full Of such
Csses, and they are not con-
fled to msn either. Women have
fisured quite as prominently. One
FTenchwomsn, between 1858 and 1857,
murdered over twenty people. She used
poison il evary instance and her victims
inclu1ed relatives, ne!ghbors, PHYSICIANS
snu nuns. She attended o number Of her
victims while they were on their death
beds and gave every evidence OF being
deeply tff3cted. Perhaps che ives. o.!
course she had no object except an insane
desire to see people die. T6is manla is
bu. one Of NUMBER, all OF which are OF
the same general f. nily. II some cases
it is kleptomania, in Others mania for
suicide, in Others for murder, AID so on"
INSPECTOR ByRNE' THEORY.
NEW YORK Oct 2-Inspec.or ByIna,
sitting up In O sick bed, told the E5qnir-
er WHIST he thought OF tae Whitechspel
murders. He said the perpetrator would
have been captured long ago but for tie
stupidity Of the London police. These
murders have all bsen committed within
O very small district. They hsve been
localized, and Gil show the hand Of
the same assassin. The crimes we're sll
Of the eame class. They were committed
within q well-known quarter pstronized
by wsntons and depraved men. The po-
lice should have been able to cover the
ground SO thoroughly after the first or
secoud crima that Z third one would have
been impossible, or, at least, that the
capture Of the perpetrstor would have
been inevitable. Il isa't as If the muir
ders we're committed in widely separated
dis.rIcte, which would havs made the
cases mora difficult
"Wast would be your plan CT action II
YOU had charge Of the csse?"
mIa the first place." said the Inspector,
az DO not believe in sitting up in COM
fortsbls Office and stocking my mustacne
while evolving besutiful detective theo-
ries of the sir.castle order. would have
gone to work in g hard, common serge
way l do not bslieya 10 theories. With
the great power CT the London Police
should have manufactured victims for
this murderer. would hsvs taken hfsy
OF the female habi.uss OF Whi.echspel
and covered the ground with them. Even
If one fell victim l would get the muir
derer. My men, uniformed, would
be scsttered over the whole district so
nothing thst happened could escape them.
The crimes are all Of the same class and I
would have determined the Glass to which
the murderer belonged. The murderer
should hsve been caught long ago. We
caught the tello, kwho had mania toy