The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-17
BiDEous wHITEcnapEL.
The worst Of zsndan's sIuns. the
Scene Of the Recent Murders.

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The best idea OF tas asfal degre.Ia A.
ton OF the men who frequent the
Hniteehapel siums can be gathered
from description o. the woInea,
whose ability TO keep alive proves The
Ell tence OF men 50 low as TO c0nsort
with them. The wrefehed women
swarm the streets by thousands even
now. bat keep close together and look
sharply around for mGraerers, even
while pretending to laugh, and asking
each other whose turn to be cut mp
VIII come next. The language ia
which they speak OF the fiend
who has made il his busine >
TO murder them il is impossible
10 reproduce, such profanity and
hideou~ly foul language as may he
heard coming from the group OF
women of any Whitechapei corner can
probably not be heard anywhere else.
some OF these poor animals have actu-
ally grown old in their misery, shriv-
eied. horrible gin-soaked hags, who
light and q sarrei on the CUTTERS edge,
aud TO approach within yards OF whom
is torture.
Tine younger women, the queens OF
these siums. are even more distress
Ing to look at Some are mere girls,
almost children, bat all celebrate any
stroke OF good fortune by getting
drunk. Bright coloTs distinguish them
Light blue i the fagonte color. Cheap
brocaees, dragging in the mud. and
ostrich feathers a. sadly out OF curl as
the dissipateii owners hair, are favor
Ire outward signs 81 such prosperity
a. may he attained in Whitechapel.
The poor creatures when born were
dropped upon the surface of the worst
pool of degradation that can be boast
Ell by any great city on earth, and all
they can do is to sink deeper down
into il, lighting and drinking cheap
gin az they 20.
Infants Drawing Though heaps OF
refuse in the Sums. never having been
made Jealous by the sight OF clean. fat
baby hood, were fairly contenied. and
their parent evidently found their
lives much enliyened by the sensation
which has come upon them. The
scenes of both murders were swarm
Ing with curious crowds, preference
Pbeing given TO the place where the
most savage murder occurred, and up
10 tonight morbid citizens were busy
lighting wax matches in the dark cor
ner OF Mitre square trying TO discover
blood stains.
No new theory worth entertaining
has been put forward. That first ad
yanced by your core pendent on sep
tensber 8. namely. that the murderer,
whether q maniac or not, must possess
some knowledge OF surgery Is accepted
a. proven. The attempt to connect
the crime with some American med
| teal student who j. supposed to have
offered large sums 10 various hospitals
for an anatomical specimen has been
| given up a, ridiculous. The anatom-
| hal specimen IN question can easily be
obtained for few shiltngs. Its sug-
gesied that the murderer must be a
! respectable looking individual, as IN
| the present state OF terror the
most degraded Whiteehapel wo-
man would not dare 10 trust
| themselves with rough. Bui
that is rubbish. for every social law in
| Whiteehapel i based ON want and
| hunger. and the lowest brute on earth
with mean 20 procure gin would
quickly md Whitechapei woman
Gag to help him drink IT, The muir
| derer must be very strong, since he
| appear, 10 have been able ii
each ease to overcome his victim
| with ease and slide ans
loud cutlery. Besides being stronl
the murderer must have terrihl,
sharp knife. Tor / have just CONT
from the moriuary where the FIRST o
last nights victims lies The gapin.
wound in the throat shows psainl,
the divi ion OF the jggular veii
and the windpipe and the motel
caused hy the knife coming in contat
| with the yer,gbr,e- The wounds ol
the throat II the Mitre square victim;
| arn aInln.t idanIicaL