The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-07-24
LONDON'S LATEST MURDER.
POLICE HoPeLEssLv IN The DARK.
As Little Prospect of Catching the Fiend
rs when the First OF the Butchered
Women Was Found Bleeding In
the Street-NIany Arrests.

LONDON. July 1.-THE woman whose body
was found in Castle alley in the White Chapel
district last night was middle aged prostitute
Her throat had been cut 20 the spine. When
the body was found it was lying on its back.
The clothing had been thrown up, exposing
the abdomen, which had been gashed in hor-
ribe manner in several places, though the in.
testines were not exposed. No part of the body
was missing. Warm blood was flowing from
the wounds when the body was discovered. A
policeman who, with the watchman Of an adj
iacent warehouse, must have been within few
yards Of the spot where the murder took plscs
when it was committed, heard no noise.
Policemen have been placed az fixed points
in White Chapel since the murders Of this char
acter there. and since the murder preceding
that OF last night officers have been stationed at
point within a hundred yards of the scene of
the latest tragedy. An old clay pipe smeared
with blood was found alongside the body. IL Is
supposed by the police that this will furnish
clew 10 the murderer, although Il may have be.
longed 10 the victim. Several arrests Of sus
Pected persons have been made, but they wers
discharged from custody, there being no proof
on which 20 hold them.
IL is stated that letter was received By the
police officials before last nights murder,
signed Jack the Ripper" in which the writer
said that he was about TO resume his work"
LONDON, July 1s.-After holding the inquest
last night on the body Of the latest victim of
the White Chapel fend, the police appear b
be as hopelessly in the dark ever, aud 10
have as little prospect Of catching the criminal
as when the first Of the murdered women was
found bleeding in the street. This time the
woman's body was scarcely cold when she was
discovered. The warm blood was flowing
from the gashes in her body. A policeman
was stalking about within fifty yards Of the
spot Lights were moving in the windows Of
the adjacent tenement-houses, but the murderer
did his work so swiftly and silently that no
one heard the victims cry. He was allowed 10
escape, and will remain unmolested until no
gets ready TO commit another butchery.
Thus far Chief Commissioner Monroe's /,
tactics have been practically the same a.
those of Sir Charles Warren. He has
flooded the White Chapel district with
police who, acting under special orders,
kept the newspapers in the dark as much a.
possible. As in the case Of the previous
murders, suspected men have been dragged
into police stations all day long, simply because
they wore rags or had no home and were inn
mediately let go again. Some OF them were 30
ignorant that they did not even know there had
been a murder. One effect Of this policy Ia ~
fan into fierce flame the public excitement OF
false news Of arrests OF Wild rumors, and Of
sensational theories there are no end; o. use
ful facts which may lead 10 clew 10 catch the
murderer there are but very few.
In the matter OF details this murder differs
very little from tie Others Il is true that there
are such revolving mutilations, but every
thing goes 70 show that this is simply because
the assassin had been interrupted Ia his work.
being frightened by a drunken peddler who
had stopped 10 wrangle with the policeman on
the beat
A correspondent saw the body OF the victim
to-day in the mortuary. The throat was cut
in the same manner as in the case Of the BeT.
ner-st. woman, by plunging knife just under
| the left ear and cutting toward Ethe right ear
| sufficiently 10 completely sever the windpipe.
The woman probably never had time 20 utter
| cry. The only other wound on the body was
| deep cut in the stomach, extending from the
waist TO the pit OF the abdomen. The intestiaes
/ we're not disturbed.
Not till tonight were the police able to 6nd
| out who the woman was. Her name was Alice
Mckenzie and, as in the case Of Jack the Rip
per's other victims, she was one Of those unfor-
| tunate creatures who find their living on the
streets. The correspondent talked 70 two
| women who saw her Rt IL 80 o'clock the night
of the murder. She was sober then. AT 1880
o'clock, when all the public houses were closed
/ by law. the barkeeper of a pub" situated a
quarter OF a mile from the scene OF the mur-
der says that he turned her into the streets be-
| cause she had been drinking some, but was not
/ actually drunk. Making her way home, the
woman turned into COmmercial-sL-the exact
region where most of the other murders had
/ been committed.
Here all traces OF her was lost till the body
was found in Castle alley at ! :25 yesterday
morning. -Four policemen patrol the vicinity
| Of Castle alley, It is considered one Of the
worst places in London. The officer whose
special duty il Is to watch the alley swears that
| he passed the spot ten minutes before he found
the body, but there was nothing there then.
| There are four entrances 10 Castle alley II is
about twenty-five feet wide and 400 long. At
night customers living near arc allowed -
store their wagons and hand-carts there. Two
| tenement houses. a watchman IN IL and pub
/ lie bath house surround IT, II is almost i'm
possible that any struggle should have occurred
without somebody hearing IT, Only a few
| yards away is a street as broad the Bowery
| and thronged with people going from tbs
pubs" and concert halls just as busy
| thoroughfare, in fact, the Bowery is at
midnight An Sx-member OF the metFopol'
| itan police, who was standing talking with
n friend at the corner OF Castle alley not
more than forty yards distant about the time
of the murder. neither saw nor heard any
thing. Mrs. Smith, who keeps the public bath
house, says she did not go to bed till after l
o'clock. She was moving about the kitchen
with the windows facing on the alley vide
open, and heard no noise till the officer gave
the alarm. She does not think that the body
was quite dead when il was found.
Isaac Lewis, who claims to be the first civilian
who saw the body after the murder watched
while the policeman went for assistance. He
says that the blood was still squirting from the
throat when the woman was found, mdicatinq
that the heart had not ceased 10 beat Th
cloluen WGTt III CAuchtA uFoA NhNnt "a 20
body and the legs were nude. There were blood
marks on the face and on the left thigh, as II =
hand covered with blood had been placed
there 10 hold the woman down. Lewis adds
that watchinan had been employed al Castle
alley till two weeks sgo 20 look after the wheel
barrows. When the barrows we're removedtho
man was discharged. He thinks that the mur-
derer knew this.
Some fifty constables selected from other dis
tricts of the metropolis last spring for special
duty in White Chapel were removed this week.
Three weeks ago the police received several let.
ters saying that Jack the Ripper was going 70
begin operations again. No attention was paid
TO them. They we're signed Jack the Rip
per-" and indited in the same disguised writ
ing as the letters received last spring. The
Pal Nal Gascye said last night that fort
night ago a man called al its Office and said he
knew the east-end we'll. and that he was surs
that the butcheries there would soon begin
again.
HIPPoLYTE REPULSED.