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

of parliament and members of the nobility
common sailors and learned scientists.
In two squares the inspector pointed out
three houses where he said he had gone "a
find him. He told the story TO illustrate
the degradation of the district. but the
point of interest in them to me was that i'm
space of 200 yards he had
found three houses where the muir
derer was supposed to be in hiding.
This shows that there must have been
hundreds of men suspected OF whom the
public have heard nothing Inspector
Moore said his own detectives, amateur
and professional, would occasionally follow
each other for week in the idea that they
were tracking the murderer.
And then we are SD often misled by
false clues, suggested by people who have
spite 10 work OFF, We get any number OF
letters throwing the most circumstantiai
evidence about certain man. and when
We run il out We find the evidence
has been cooked up by some man who
hates him probably or some woman
whom he has thrown over All this takes
time and money, and from The nature OF
our work We can say nothing OF what we
are doing; We can only speak when il is
vice from america alone; you can fancy
how many get from this country.
And then there is the practical Joker
who sends us letters written in blood and
bottles of blood aud parts OF the human
body or the entrals OF animals which he
SAYS he took from his victim. 1t is not an
easy piece of work assure you | work
seventeen and eighteen hours day. III |
get into bed think may be he is at il now
and grow restless and finally get up and
tramp the courts and alleys I'll morning. .
These same courts aud alleys which offer
such facilities for the escape OF the muir
derer also illustrate the wonderful element
of lack or chance the man has had in his
work for the very fact that he can get away
so quickly from the body OF the woman he
has murdered and mutilated shows that
there is nothing 10 prevent a passing po-
liceman stumbling upon him just as quick
while he Is at his work. II Is not a. if the
murderer could watch all the different ave-
nues oil approach. /. For 81 he can know. a
dozen witnesses may he within twenty feet
OF him. only hidden by q stone wall or a
turn in the alley.
Asst Is, In three or four cases people
have passed within a few rods OF the spot
while he was at work, others have passed
but few moments before. and on four oc-
cssloas the body was s,iIl quite warm when
some ore walked up TO il and found oui
what it was.
The Berner street murder was the mosl
/ audacious in this respect. for the gateway
/ in which il was committed leads into q
( thickly populated court. and almost over
/ head. in the second story OF the house "a
the right of the gateway, q meeting ~ So
/ eiaiis;s was IN fuli blast. IL was nearly
/ O'Clock in the morning when We completed
/ onr tour Of the district and had looked a.
ali OF the places where The murders had
/ been done.
II hal been e FIVE hours walk through
more misery, vice and CRIME than can per
haps tee found in as snail space, les
( than a square mile. in any other great
city. There had been only eight murders
then. As xe neared the station rslHeIa
/ Der the inspectors pointing into the dsrl
arches Of the London, Tilbury s soathsns
/ railway and saying Vow. what plse'
/ fora murder that would BE-
+ week later. while vas in mid-oceaT
on my way back, the body Of the ninil
/ victim was found Just under those YER
arches and not three minutes walk from
/ the police station. don't know whethe
( JACK the Ripper was lurking near Us tha
( night and had acted on the inspectors sag
gession. or whether the inspector Is Jacl
/ the Ripper himself bat the coincidence j
| certainly suspicious.