Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-20
GOT the Wrong Man.

Got the Wrong Man.
LONDON, July 19.-The man arrested on
suspicion of being the White Chapel MUIR
derer, is not "Jack the Ripper" The
police tonight say he is only drunken
lunatic, and they attach no Importance to
his confession. The man will be arraign-
ed in the police court Tomorrow on the
charge of vsgsbondism.
THE LAST VICTIM.
The inques. on Eliza Macker zie's body
was resumed this morning at ten o'clock
and lasted till one o'clock, when 1t was
was adjourned until AuguEt IA.
One Dr. Phillips, divisional surgeon,
said that as he was going to the scene OF
the murder it was raining hard and he
was struck with the fact Of the unusual
scarcity of people on the streets. Several
iurors smiled at this. He found the body
clothes were raised up in chest.
They were all bloody on the
side next the wall. He made a complete
post. mortem examination to-day at the
mortusry. In the examination he found
below the wOman's left collar-bone there
was n well-defned bruise about the size OF
a shilling, and on the other side there
was a larger, well.defned bruise. Both
bruises we're the result OF Injuries during
life. Seven inches below the right
nipple began the external wound. 1t
was seven inches long and deepest
at it's middle part. 1t divided only the
skin and tissue underneath, leaving the
muscular structure undivided. There
were several smaller wounds only dividing
the skin, running from the inner side of
the large wound towards the naval, and
from the middle of the larger wound were
several email wounds, reaching only
through the skin and running downward.
The right thumb had been cut of, but
that was apparently former injury. 1t
was apparent the woman had suffered
from an old disease. He thought the
throat wes cut from behind. The first in
cision seemed to have been interrupted by
the prominence OF the womsn's lower Jaw.
There was second incision joining the
first at its deepest part, which was imme-
diately over the carotid vessels. These
were entirely severed. The cause Of death
was syncope, arising from loss of blood
consea uent upon the division of these ves-
sells. and such death was probably almost
instantaneous. The air passage WAS not
divided.
THE SCENE OF THE CRIMES.
One of the Jurors suggested careful ex-
animation Of the places where the different
murders OF Jack occurred, and consider
alton of the circumstances and peculiarl-
ties of each fendish crime would enable
the police to work much more intelligent
ly in attempting to secure the perpetrator
of them. In the first place the locality as
a whole must be studied as the field OF the
villains operations. TIE district lies,
in the main, Just east Of the
CITY proper and Immediately north
of Aldgate. On Whitechapel
and High street there were only two mur-
ders, the fifth and sixth occurred outside
this quarter, and they were near by, the
fifth few blocks to the south and the
sixth few to the west and just inside the
city. The first and second crimes were
almost in the exact geograph-
ical center Of this territory. The MUIR
derer, it is reasonable to suppose, was
keen enough to realizs that owing TO the
great excitement that prevailed and the
vigilance instituted after the second muir
der, that of Martha Turner, which was one
of the most strociols Of the lot, it would
be extremely hazardous to attempt the
third in that immediate vicinity. He Is
bold and daring man, as his
crimes attest, bat he is evidently possessed
of caution. He went mile or more to
the eastward, to Backs Row, to kill his
third victim. This happened on August
81, only about three weeks after the sec
ond one. Next he comes back and mutt
lates his fourth victim as far west
ward as Nos. / and ., aud only
few blocks to the northwsrd. Three
weeks later he jumps to about the same
distance south or southeast Of the center
and does his fifth murder. The same
night, the short interval necessitating hur-
rying he passes the scenes of one and two
and goes few blocks to the westT to
Mitre squsre and says No. 6. Five weeks
later No. Z is butchered only short dis
lance north from the center Of the locality,
and No. has her throat cut scarcely more
than stones throw from where No.
suffered in like manner.
JACK THE RIPPER
has returned to the centre OF his field OF
around which it is apparent
be has been towering all the time when in
his murderous moods He has been bent
,ll along on killing his victims in that
limited district OF four or FIVE blocks
of the square within which murders
Nos. /, 2 and 8 have occurred. He |
has digresse1 north, east, south and |
west. Ia order to puzzle the police,
and very likely for considerations of per-
,onal safety, he lives new or has lived in
this crime center, or at all events, he has
been frtquenter of ii. This conclusion |
s warranted not only by the fact stated,
that he seems to gravite toward it constsn-
tly, but slso by an intimate acquaintance
with it's many dark and tortuous passages
and byways, which the murders
,how him to have. Almost without ex-
,sption the murders have taken place
close to frequented streets, but in dark
courts. passages and alleys, or rooms
where interruption would be improbable,
where anyone approaching could be seen
BY him, and where his escape through by
gays was easy. Castle lane Is fair Sam
ple of the character OF all.