The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-15
The Wbitecllapcl Fiend.

LONDON, Nov. 12.-Gen. Sir Charles
Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan Po
lice, has rendered his resignation. 1t is
understood that this action is due to the
severe criticisms that have been made
upon his efficiency in connection with
the Whitechapel murders.
The following is complete list Of!
nine victims who have already fallen q
prey to the murderer, popularity known
as the "Whitechapel monster"
No. lon April 3, 1883, Emma
Elizabeth Smith, q woman of the town,
was murdered in Whitechapel.
No. 2.-August7, 1883, the body of
Martha Tabram, a hawker, was found
on the first floor landing of The George
Yard Buildings, Commercial street,
Spital6elds. The head was nearly severed
from the body and there were thirty two
stab wounds, besides the usual mutilation.
The murder wa, committed between mid.
night and dawn.
No. 3.-Mary Ann Nichols, aged AZ,
woman of the lowest class, was killed
and mutilated like the rest Her body
was found in the street in Bucks Row,
Whitechapel, in the early morning of
Friday, August 81. She had evidently.
been killed somewhere else and her body
carried where it was found, for little
blood was discovered where the body lay.
No. 4.-Just week after the killing
of. the Nichols woman, Annie Chapman,
aged 45, another fallen woman, was
similarly murdered and mutilated. Her
body was discovered in the back yard of
90 Hanbnry street, 100 yards from the
place where the Nichols woman's remains
were found She must have been butch.
cred after 5 a. M, for she was drinking
with man, probably her murderer, at
that hour in public house near by. On
the wall near her body was written in
chalk "Rue;, fifteen more, then give
myself up."
No. Son Sunday, September %, q
young woman was murdered at Gateshead,
near Newcastle. n.Tyne, in the North OF
England. Ali the circumstances, even to
the peculiar mutiliation of the body,
point to the Whitechapel 6eud as the
murderer.
No. 6.-Another Whitechapel woman,
Elizabeth Stride, nicknamed "Hippy Lip
Annie," forty years old, was murdered in
Berners street, on Sunday, September 80,
at about a.. N. Her throat was cut, but
there was no slashing Of the remains. The
lady was warm when found and the
murderer had been apparently frightened
away.
No. Fifteen minntes after the dis
covery Of the butchery of "Hippy Lip
Annie, the mutilated body of another
victim, degraded woman ofthe White
chapel district, named Catherine Eddowes
was; found in the Southwest corner of
Mitre Square.
No. Son Oct. 2, the highly decom.
posed remains of a woman, shockingly
mutilated and giving evidence of having
been killed by the Whitechapel murderer,
was found on the site of the projected
Metropolitan Opera House, on the Thames
Embankment. This was evidently one Of
the five to which the iend referred when
he chalked the legend over the body of
Annie Chapman in Hanbury street on
Sept. 8. This place is near Claring,
Cross, three miles west of the Whitechapel
district.
No. 6.-The last murder, on November
6, took place in q house in little lane
called Dorsey street, near Commercial
street, Spital6elds. The name of the
shockingly mutilated victim was Mary
Kelly. She was native of Limerick.