The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-06
RsIlisose Leader.

NEW York, Sept. "A London
special to the Times says the Standards
beIiicose leader beginning with the
pompOus announcement that Canada,
should necessity unfortunately arise,
has behind her the guns of English
iron clads, has produced all over Lon
don one prolonged guffaW. l have
se6n nobody in town who does not re-
gard it as absolute nonsense. 1t is a
matter of fact as i ca2lEH on Saturday,
| that Canada has beeR Hotihed to shut
up and give in. There are two theor-
| les afiOat in newspapers; one Is that 1t
| Is scheme to bear American railway
securities, but the idea that England
will stir finger to back the dominion
is utter folly.
Whitechapel has a murder mystery
which transcendS anything known in
| the annals of the horrible. 1t is the Pacs
murder of the Rue Mormue, and the
mystery of Larie Romet rolled into one
/ real story and it is nothing less than a
/ midnight murderer whose step IS nolS-
less, whose strike is deadly and whose
cunning is so that he leaves no trace
| whatever of his work and no clue to
his identity. He has just slaughtered
his third victim, and all the women in
Whitechapel are terrified while the
stupldiSt detectives in the civilized
world stand aghast and say they have
no clue. When the murder of Mary
Ann Nichols, who was cut into ribbons
last Friday night, was investigated
it became evident that the murderer
was the same that committed the two
preceding ones and all three were
leWd women of the lowest class and all
worked on the street between 3 and
o'clock in the morning. and all were
mutiliated in the same iendish man
ner and peculiar way. The detectives
are looking for the one man whom they
believe to be guilty of all three crimes,
this man is called Leather Apron, anf
nobody knows him by any other name
He is character half way between
Dickens Quilp and Poe's Balloon. He
is short, stunted and thick set, has
small wicked black eyes and is halt
crazy. He is always hanging about
the deep shadows that fill the netwOrE
I Whitechapel. He does not walk bu
always moves on a sharp AMI quee
run and never makes any noise with
his feet. In addition to the three wO
men he is believed to have murdered
he has scared hundred more of then
nearly do death and every streetwalke
in Whitechapel has her own story t.
tell of him. He lives by robbing then
] late at night and has kicked. cuffet
1
in the past two years. His usual lodg
ing place is four penny lodging house
in poverty stricken thieves alley o
!. Brick Lane. He has left there now
Z however, and no body knows wher'
: he is. He is suspected of having don
the three murders from the fact he Ina
frequently drawn knife on women
!; accompanied Ivy the same threat
Z which have been carried out ON tn
dead woman. The story of Mrs. Co
= we'll, who heard the screams of tn
! woman as she was being murdered, 1
: to the effect that she clearly wa
running away from somebody who wa
+ murdering her, rand yet she coul
. hear no other footsteps. The blood
J stains on the side walk indicated til
same thing, that the murderer, whC
ever he was, was nOiseless in his puI
4 suit and this quality points directly t
i Leather Apron" He is a Slippe
maker by trade and gets his Dicknam
u from the fact he always wears leathe
apron and is never seen without il
:, One peculiar feature of the case is tina
u none of the police or detectives appea
to know him, he having always keI
out of their sight.