The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
BLOOD-CRAZED PEOPLE.
THE MYSTERIOUS CRIMES OF THE
WHITECHAPEL MURDERER.


| duplicated in London.
viii the assassin fulfill his boast of killing
twenty-five women, and then giving himself
up to the police?
= The inhabitants of the Whitechapel district
and other localities in London are in such o
state of feverish alarm that women hardly
dare to venture out even in daylight.
| When tho seventh woman was killed the
other day, people hoped that the bloody
work was over.
1t was visionary hope--the eighth unfortu-
nate has already fallen under the knife of the
butcher.
A London special gives the following details
OF the latest horror:
Tonight just about dusk the mutiated corpse
of woman was found in an open vault on the
site of the projected Grand operahouse, right
on the Thames embankment, within stones
throw of the Grand and Metropole hotels, and
within sight of the police headquarters at
| Scotland yard. Not only have the head and
arms been separated from the body, but the
abdomen has been cut vertically and the yis-
cera exposed, as in the other cases. The san
culinary monster evidently had more time, and
was able to perform his terrible task with
greater leisure. With reference to the severed
arm which is missing, it will be remembered
| that about month ago woman's arm was
| found floating in the Thames at Pimlco. 1t
has been preserved, and will be compared with
| the remains.
| THE MONSTERS PREVIOUS CRIMES.
THE Knifer" began his horrible work on
Whitmonday. Six of his seven victims have
| been killed in the neghborhood of White
| chapel. Since it seems to be his intention to
| murder as many abandoned women as possible,
| his choice of Whitechapel as o hunting ground
is a good one. 1t abounds in tho most de-
| graded specimens of the feminine sex, and it is
| ono mass of dark, reeking purlieus that look
as they were designed by some friend of the
hIghwayman or accomplce of the assassin.
| The first woman was stabbed i'll thirty-nne
| places. Those who saw the body said that the
murderer must have hacked it as with devlish
| delight.
Nine weeks ago the second woman fell
| prey to the maniac. She was butchered like q
sheep, being ripped entirely open.
| Victim No. 3 was brutality carved. Portions
of the body had been removed. She, like her
sisters, went to her Maker fresh from life
| of sin.
What horrible torments had the mailman in
| fiicted on these women before dispatching
| them like cattle? Possibly he had subjected
| them to awful fortunes, and Toasted on their
| groans until the approach of some one made
| him, in self-defense give them the finishing
| blow.
| The fourth unfortunate was killed on Sep
TENDER Sth in a back yard in Hamburg street.
| The throat was cut and the head hung ON by
| piece OF the vertebrae which had not been sever
| ed. The abdomen was ripped up and its contents
| made fantastic decoration round the face of
| the corpse. 1t was the work Of butcher
| without doubt, or of doctor practiced in
| carving the human cadaver.
| 1t was said that the mailman wrote in blood
| ON the wall, "Fifteen before surrender"
| The fifth sacrifice was made at Gateshead,
| near Newcastle-on-Tyne, on September %.
| The circumstances were almost exactly the
same as those attending the four previous muir
| ders.
The sixth and seventh victims were killed
| this week in q similar manner
Opinions of Medical Experts on the White
chapel Murders.
NEW York, October 4.-Dr. William A.
| Hammond, the insanity expert of this city,
| says the Whitechapel murders are committed
by a homicidal tunatic who is like a tiger in
| his nature. If caught, the law should shield
its eyes while society hangs the maniac. Con-
| tinuing, the doctor said
| Ceases of homcidal insanity are very COM
| mon. They are confined to no class or coun-
try, and the books are full of them. The las.
| instance of the kind in New York that re-
| call was that man, / have forgotten his name,
| who ran through Fourteenth street with
| carpenters compass in his hand ,stabbing every
| woman he met examined him and found II
| plain case OF
| HoMICIDAL INSANITY"
care people affected in this way particularly
| noticeable?'
"Now, that's Just the mistake the London
police are making" replied the doctor, sharply,
'they are looking for a repulsive, uncouth
|
| cellars about Whitechapel In society he is
| probably o mild-mannered man.. He may
| move in the very best circles. He may be
| known among his acquaintance for his mod
| esty, his refinement, his humanity. He may
even have an effeminate horror of bloodshed
and strife. And yet, for some ono of dozen
| causes-disease, or drink or what-not--he may
have, at times, this Unsuitable desire for blood.
"that he is actuated by some fanatical religious
ideas. He thinks that he is doing religion
| service in
KIDDING THE WORLD
Of such women as he kills, for in every case
| they are reported as being prostitutes The
| appetite increases with indulgence. This
Whitechapel lunatic thinks now that he is
doing service in killing ignorant depraved
| women. Presently 1t will occur to him TO kill
| women whom ne thinks belong to the same
class, but who are in high life, and it would
not at all surprise me if the next victim was
duchess or countess. Then he will be
| caught"
What are the symptoms of homioidal in
sanity?"
"They are different in different cases. Usu-
| ally the disease Is accompanied by inability to
sleep, rush of blood to the head, dizziness,
confusion Of ideas, and then delusion."
"The fact of an American offering hundreds
OF dollars for anatomical specimens is absurd,
| is it not?"
"To the last degree. see the coroner
dwelt on it in charging the jury. The speci-
|
in unlimited quantities for 81. / remember
once being visited by gardener. He told me
that his niece kept house for him, and that as
| he had raised her, he was very
fond of her. One day he was filled
| with tho impulse to drive pitch
fork through her neck. He was talking to
| her at the time and had the pitchfork in his
| hand. BY tremendous effort he refrained.
Several times afterward he felt the same de-
sire coming over him, and each time it grew
stronger, and at last he made a figure with
the neck and bust of straw. Whenever the
desire to stick his neice in the neck with the
piUchfork came over him he would rush out
| and
| STAB THE FIGURE.
/ got him into an asylum, and he was event
ually cured. The case Of Demallard, the
Frenchman, is a noted one, and from the fact
that the victims were all women
it is particularly interesting. He used
to advertise for servant girls, When they
came he would lead them off TO some secluded
spot and murder them. There was no other
object than a mad thirst for human blood.
He is known TO have murdered six women in
! this way, and is supposed to have killed many
| more whose bodies were never discovered. He
was executed The books are full of such
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