Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-19
SPORT FOR THE FIEND.
THR wHITECHAPBL MONSTER LAUGHS AT
THB LONDON POLICE.
he Informed Them That He Would Begin The
Slaughter Again-WMm Life Blood Gushsd
From HIS Last Victim Whsn Pognd
A Thrilling Story.

LONDON, July IS AT the inquest held
on the body of the woman found murdered
in the whitechspel district, yesterday
morning, the fact wsl developed that in
addition to two large gashes, there were
fourteen other wounds on the body. The
greater number of the wounds, however,
were only skin deep.
SHE HAD BEEN DRINKING.
Two women who saw Alice Mackenzie
at 11:30 o'clock Tuesdsy night eaid she
was sober then. At 1879, when all the
public houses are closed by law, the bar
keeper of pub" situated q quarter of
mile from the scene of the murder, says
that he turned her into the street, and
that she had been drinking some, but was
not actually drunk. Making her way
home, the woman turned into Commercial
street.-the exact region where most OF the
other murders had been committed. Here
all trace of her was lost till the body was
found in Castle alley at 1880 in the
morning.
Four policemen patrol the vicinity of
Castle alley. 1t is considered one Of the
worst places in London. The officer whose
special duty it is to watch the alley, swears
that he passed the spot 10 minutes before
he found the body, and that there was
nothing there thon. There are four en-
frances to Castle alley. 1t is about twenty
feet wide and four hundred feet long. At
night costermongers living near are allowed
| to store their wagons and hand carts there.
Two tenement housfs, q large warehouse,
with wstchman in it. and public bath
house surround it. 1t is almost impossible
that any struggle should have occurred
without somebody hearing II. Only few
yards away is broad street, which is
thronged at midnight with people going
home nom the pubs" and concert nails.
THEY HEARD NO NOISE.
Anex-nember Of the Metropolitan police
who was standing talking with iriead AZ
Castle alley, not more than 40 yards d ~
tant, about the time OF the murder. neither
saw nor heard anything. Mrs smith, ~ho
keeps the public bath house, says che did
not 20 10 bed till after ! O'Clock, She
wss moving about the kitchen with The
wiEdows facing on the alley wide open,
and heard no noise I'LL the oiiioe- gave the
alarm. She does not think that the body
was quite dead when discovered.
Isaac Lewis, who claims 10 be the hrst
civilian who saw the body after the mur-
der. watched il while the policeman went
for assistance. lie says that the blood was
still tpurting from the throat when the
woman was found, indicating that the
heart had not ceased 10 beat. TIE clothes
were all crushed up on the chest OF the
body and the legs were nude. There were
blroi marks on the face and ON the left
thigh, as il hand covered with blood bad
been placed there to
HOLD THE WOMAN DOWN.
Lewis adds that a watchman had been EN-
ployed at C,stle alley till two weeks ago
10 look after the wheelbaIrowe. When
the barrows were removed the man wa
discharged. He thinks that the murderer
knew this.
Some so constables selected from oihtI
districts of the metropolis last spring, ioi
} special duty in Whitechapel, were r.
moved this week. Three weeks aso the
police received several letters saying tha
''Jack the Ripper" WAS going to hsgii
operations again. but no attention wa
paid TO them. They were signed Jae'
the Ripper" and indicted in the same han'
writing as the letters received last spring
The Pau Mall Gazette says that a fortnight
$50 man called at its Office and said thai
he knew the East End well and that ~
was sure the butcheries there would soon
begin again.