Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-26
JACK THE RIPPER HERE.
The Sepulchrai Rendezvous OF
the Fiendish Monster
and His Band.
Reporters Witness the De.
mons First Butchery in
Butte.

carefully concealed from the reporters, and
through them from the public, the secret
workings Of the force. The reasons for
their secretivenees are now apparent
and there is no longer any cause for
concealment. While it is perhaps discredit.
able alike to the police and the reporters
Of Butte that the operations OF the local
secret service should become known first
from en- outsidesource, Therapeutics Of this
city are not to be charged in this instance
with disclosing Information which, if pre-
maturely published, might prevent the
capture OF one OF the greatest Of human
butchers in the annals Of crime. To the
Union Of Ogden belongs whatever credit
there may be in giving away the secrets
thought to have been possessed exclusively
by the police Of this city. In it's edition OF
last Saturday appeared h iollo~ing:
THE RIPPER IN BUTTE.
cry was made here last evening that establishes
the fact that Jack, the Ripper" is on his rounds
in the United States and has organized a rip
per" trust: A ghsstly discovery was made early
dl1b ulOfuluS al tu0 IOOt u bOutu Mhlu ebfEc1
whereby a woman of the town was found with
her body cut open and the stomach entirely sew
cred from the body. A note was carefully paced
upon, the corpse which read as follows;
This woman has wronged me and ] take this
method Of Kidding the earth Of q deprayed wo-
man in preference to doing upmyself."'
Several parties during the pastweek have been
has followed. a man reported at police head
vas the work Of Jack. tie Ripper"
/: Now that the cat is out OF the bag. go to
speak, it is fair to presumes that Jack will
leave the city and take his blood letting
band with him. Neither he o his ASSOC
ciates were to be seen last night in their GUS
tomary haunts about town nor did they
hold their usual consultation in the de-
serted mine Of which they took possession
soon after their arrival here. A reporter
for The MINER was In the company OF the
Ogden papers correspondent when the dis
covery of the murderer den was made; saw
as well as he did the glittering Weapons OF
those monsters in human shape; heard as
well as he did the plans for the killing OF
defenseless women vito ventured from home
after nightiall; is as thoroughly conversant
as he with the methods Of the fends and
with their objects and easons The MINER
reporter was an eyewitness OF the
homicide on South Main street last Friday
night. heard the piercing shrieks OF that
helpless victim and saw her likelihood gush-
ing from her gaping wounds; saw the note
pinned to her dead body and watched the
blood-stained demons as they stole away
under cover Of the night. It was a reporter
for The MINER who carried that poor
corpse to the morgue last Friday highland
helped Undertaken Sherman robe it for
the grave; who made one Of q little handful
OF horror stricken people who laid her away
at midnight between Saturday and Sunday
in an unmarked tomb on the barren hill
side; and who has, since that great crime,
left undone nothing that lay in his power
to eveal the identity OF the dead and bring
her soulless murderers to the gallows.
The tactics for which Jack the Ripper
became infamous in Whitechapel were put
into use in Butte after the killing OF last
Friday night. The arch-iend and his able
conspirators changed their place OF rendez
vous as soon as the death scream OF their
to-day their meeting place is as much
OF q mystery as is the personality Of the
unknown occupant of the etony grave
on the hill. From the chamber on :he
5OO.foot level of the mine where death
held high carnival in thought and rivers OF
blood danced through the dreams Of the
sleepers, the implements OF murder are
gone with the beings in whose unholy
hands they were as toys in the
grasp OF prattling childhood.
Not far enough away down
the dark drift to prevent the
sickening stencil OF ~rotting human flesh
from filling the chamber and the shaft
leading to it, lie the heart, lungs, stomach
and liver OF the unfortunate woman whose
life ended in q great cry for mercy. There
they will remain, for but few have seen that
terrible place, and those who have peDe.
Grated to it in all it's material horror and
ghastliness OF association will not willingly
enter it's dangers and darkness again.
The special secret service OF a few trusty
men organized by the Ogden Union cor
respondent and the reporter for The MINER
is still at work to ascertain the movements
OF the mysterious Jack and his more than
ghouiish crew. That the red-mouthed and
crimson-handed devils are yet in the
vicinity Of Butte is evident from the par
tial completion OF the work they marked
out for themselves. Had there been ten
midnight butchsries, and each OF a woman,
and each woman of the class to whom
Jacks malignity is directed, there would
be reason for the Imposition that he and
his blood hounds had taken their de-
parture.