Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-07-26

trouble about the aftaif. Tho papers had
the usual paragraph, and the case at
tracted no public attention.
On August there was Q slight COM
motion over the murder of woman
named Margaret Turner. She was found
on the doorsteps ofa house. Her body
had been pierced In several places with a
bayonet. On August 81. the metropolis
was genuinely alarmed over the dlscov-
cry OF the body of Polly Micholes and in
rupid succession the other crimes fol-
lowed after and London awoke in terror,
at last realizing the capacity of the fiend
for his bloody work.
Sir Charles Warren was repeatedly at
tackled in the newspapers, and to make
u Struggle against his downfall he sup
plemented the blueeoats with a force of
English bloodhounds. Sir Charles, to
the amusement of the. comic papers, ex-
ercised in Hyde Park with the dogs and
had them set on his own track. The
warrior in less than an hour was up the
tallest tree he could find, with the
brutes on guard beneath him. After this
the hounds sickened of tho business and
took the first opportunity that offered to
escape.
The crowded streets of London were,
however, not the ground for blood
hounds.
Failure dogged him at every step and
while he was actually quarreling with
his assistants in Scotland Yard murder
ilourished. Human remains were dis
covered October in a cellar at the
foundation of the new police building on
the embankment and within the pre-
cincts of Scotland Yard. The mutilated
body only was found here, but afterward
legs and arms were found in other parts
Of the city.
Mr.. Monro, chief of the detective de-
partment, could not agree with Sir
Charles, who wished to ''boss" the whole
concern after his own fashion, and con-
-equently, he handed In his resignation
at the home Office and left the yard.
Warren's day of doom was now rapidly
approaching.
Mary Jane Kelly, OF Lawrence, was cut
up in pieces almost, on November 8. Her
nose and ears and breasts were cut off
and placed beside her. Her heart and
liver were taken out and tied together
round her gashed neck. The portion of
her body carried off in all the preceding
cases was not to be found. The murderer
had excelled all previous efforts at dia-
bolical butchery, and people wondered il
this terrible work was never to come to
an end.
Ine Pollce were as pOWetleSS as ever,
and as the weeks went on Londoners only
waited patiently for the finding of the
next unfortunate victim of Jack, the
Ripper.
Things in the meantime went from bad
to worse with Sir Charles Warren.
He fell foul OF his master and old de-
fender, Home Secretary Mathew, and
prepared magazine article in his own
defence.
This article was sprung upon the pub
lie by the Star" long before its time
and the result was that Warren went
back TO his soldering and Monro was
picked up again and appointed chief conf.
missioner.
Since Monro's appointment London
was not treated to further murders b. ...r
Ripper. There was little space given To
the November 8 murder, the Parnell COM
mission occupying all the attention of the
newspapers.
The body of woman was found eariy
in June last, but it was not ascertained
to a certainty that the old fiend had mad
anything To do with her murder.
The murder OF Alice Mackenzie, few
days ago, gives Mr. Monro a chance OF
displaying his powers, but unfortunately
there are 20 indications that the metro
politan force has improved either in