Huntsville gazette., 1889-07-20
LEFT NO CLEW.
The Ripper's Latest as Mysteri-
GUS as the Others.
The Victim Was Scarcely Dead
Whom Discovered.

As Usual the Police Arrest a Lot of Un-
fortunates-Comple List of the VIC
Tins of the Whitechapel Ftend Since He
Began His Bloody Work Almost Two
Years Ago.
New YORK. July IA special to The
World from London SAYS:
At the inquest over the body of the
woman found murdered in Whitechapel
district early Tuesday morning, it was
found that in addition to two deep
gashes across the stomach there were
fourteen other wounds ON the body
mostly skin deep.
Still in the Dark.
After holding the inquest the police
appear to be as hopelessly in the dark
as ever and to have as little prospect of
catching the criminal as when the first
of the murdered women was found
bleeding in the street.
Hardly Dead. When Found.
This time the woman's body was
scarcely dead when discovered The
warm blood was flowing from gashes in
the body, n policeman was stalking
within about fifty yards of the spot, and
lights were moving i'll the windows of
adjacent tenement houses, but the mur-
derer did his work 50 swiftly and silent
ly that no one heard a cry. He escaped
unmolested.
Ignorant Policemen.
So far Munro's tactics have been prac-
tically the same as Warren's. He has
flooded the Whitechapel district with
police who, under special orders, keep
newspapers In the dark as much as pos
sible As in previous murders suspect
ed men have been dragged into police
stations all day because they wore rags
or had no home. and were Immediately
let 90 again. Some of them were so ig-
norant that they did not even know
there had been murder One effect of
this policy is to fan fierce flame in pub
lic excitement by false news, false ar
rests, wild rumors and sensational the
OrieS.
Last Seen at 1890.
Not till night were the police able to
find out who the woman was. Her name
was Alice Mackenzie. The Worlds
correspondent talked to two women who
saw her at $50 Monday night She
was sober then. At II 30. when all the
public houses are closed by law, the bar
keeper of pub situated quarter
of mile from the scene of the murder,
says that he turned her into the street,
and that she had been drinking some,
but was not actually drunk
Making her way home the woman
turned into Commercial street, the exact
region of all the other murders. From
here all trace of her is lost till the body
was found in Castle alley at - 80 Four
policemen patrol the vicinity of Castle
alley. It is considered one of the worst
places in London.
Some fifty constables, taken from
other districts last spring, were removed
from Whitechapel this week. Three
weeks ago the police got several letters
saying that Jack the Ripper was going
to begin operations again. No atten-
ton was paid to them They were
signed Jack the Ripper" in the same
disguised writing as the letters of last
spring.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
fortnight ago man called at its Office
and said that he knew the East End WE'LL
and that he was sure that the butcheries
there would soon begin again.
A List OF Jacks Victims.
The generally accepted list of the
Whitechapel flend's victims up to date
is as follows:
I. Unknown woman, past middle age,
Whitechapel outcast found dead in Oc-
tober, 1887, with body horribly mutt
lated; little attention paid to the case
Q. Martha Turner, found Aug. 7,
stabbed in thirty-two places probably
with a bayonet
3. Polly Nichols, found Aug. Z, head
nearly severed from the body.
4. Anna Chapman, found Sept. 8, hor-
ribly carved
5. Young woman, near Newcastle
upon Tyne, found Sept. %, slashed as
were the others.
g. Elizabeth Stride, found Sept 80,
body warm when found, but mutilated
like the others.
z. Catherine Eddowes, found the
same morning, body and face horribly
disfgured.
g. Unidentified woman, found Oct. 2,
with head and arms severed and the
usual mutilations of body.
O. Mrs. Mary Jane Lawrence, found
Nov. 0, head nearly severed, face lacer-
ated almost beyond recognition, breasts
cut off and laid upon table, heart and
liver removed and matrix missing; body
literally hacked to pieces.
TO- Elizabeth Jackson, body found in
sections between May 81 and June 25.
H. The present case.