The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-20

fessional detectives in his search for the
murderer.
About sixty" he replied iaconically.
The inspector was non-communicative, but
l could see and hear for myself. and
dozen times during our tour women in
rags, clearinghouse keepers, proprietors OF
public houses and idle young men, dressed
like all the other idle young men of the
district. but with q straight bearing that
told of discipline, and with the regulation
shoe with which Scotland Yard marks its
men, whispered a half sentence as we
passed, TO which sometimes the inspector
replied or TO which be sometimes appeared
utterly unconscious.
From what he said later ] learned that
all Whitechapel is peopled with these spies.
Sometimes they are only .plain-clothes'
men, but besides these he has half hun
dred and at times 200 unattached detec-
uves. who pursue their respectable or 9th
erwise callngs while they keep an alert eye
and ear for the faintest clue that may lead
70 the discovery of the invisible murderer.
AS IT was warm night the population
vas for the great part in the street. Liter
ally IN the street. Little children, with
oniy single garment TO hide their dirty
nasedness, sier; in the doorways of public
houses or IN the angles OF the walls; men
and women lay in drungen stupor half in
/ and half out OF their doorways. and most of
them SAT on the cGrb~tones with their feet
/ IN the gutter and exchanged amenities with
their neighhors over the narrow way. II
~ss only when some one at the entrance to
court whistled Ark the Pieeceman"
that they sprang to their ieot and crept into
( their dens, 10 issue forth again after the in
bal
stopped To speak with them sill the others
/ crowded about TO learn who was wanted
( and when they found il was an of nisht
T they forgot their fear of him and begged
/ for coppers. They were the most forsakeii.
lost and blackguerdly LOT that have seen
I in jail or OUT.
Dorset street IS only q square in length,
bat il crowds enough misery and vice into
/ It's short span 10 supply a dozen villages.
I IL leaped into notorieIy year ago through
he Mary Nelly murder, which vas COM
mitted III house rented By Mccarthy. the
4 proprietor of McCarthy's lodging house.
The room otthe murder Is on the first iloor
IL juts out into little court, reached by n
narrow, dark passageway oil Dorset street.
This Was about the worst If the muir
ders." said the inspector. HE cat The
skeleton SO clean OF flesh that when | got
I here | could hardly tell whether il was G
man or woman. lie hung the different
/ parts 81 the body on nails and over the
Z backs ol chairs. Ii must have taken him
an hour and hall in ali and when he
was ready TO so he found the door was
+ lammeG and BE had TO make his escape
through the larger Of those two windows. -
Imagine haw this man felt when he tried
The door and found il was locked; that was
te'ore he thought Of the window -beley-
ing that be was locked in with that bleed
ing skeleton and the strips of flesh that he
had hung SO Enthusiastically about the room
that be bad trEppea himself beside his VIC.
tam and had helped 10 pat the rope around
bis Own neck One we8ld think the shock
OF the moment would have lasted Tor year:
L. come and kept him in hiding. But il
apparently did bot affect him that way, fo1
be has allied Eve women since then
We knocked al the door and woman
ogered ST. She spoke 10 someone INSIDE
and taen told Mister Inspector" io come
ia. Is was a bare whstesashei room WITH
= De-: II one corner \ man was ia ths
bed bat he sat up aEG welcomed Us scoa
n&iarsaly. Tie Inspector apolosizea fai
fhe Intrusion. bllt the occupant Of the BED
SAID i didn't matter. sfsd oeaigingiy traces
out with hss soFe1nssr the stgeaEs ef hlood
upoa the @aii ~ hss heds.Ge When he
bad Gone this lie turned his face 70 the wai
10 80 TO s.esP sga.n, and tie iEsesCto.