Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-11
THE LATEST LONDON HORROR.
Whitechapcl Hardened by Repeated
Crimes Looks Listlessiy ON.

Crimes Looks Listlessiy ON.
A London special cable dispatch to the Phiia-
delphis Press gives the following details relat-
ing 10 the scene and circumstances of the muir
der Of woman in Cable street, whitechapel,
discovered yesterday morning Thousands Of
Londonsrs daily take the trains Of the Great
Eastern railway at French street, which rises
above the grade Of the populous thoroughfares
In Whitechapel and crosses the Thames on Q
level with the housetops, below London bridge.
The masonry Of the railroad structure has cut
up the street below into irregular sections,
which end in blind alleys against the arches
on one sides and start abruptly from the stone
piers on the other, leaving gloomy recesses and
deserted courts in the center Of densely pop
ulated slum. The higher arches of this steam
roadway are rented to contractors, coal dealers
and tunkmen.
CORNER OF wHrrEoHApRL.
Lower down they are boarded up to height
Of 10 or 10 feet, and where the stone trestle IL
lowest the empty spaces under the arches are
used as receptacles for garbage and during the
daytime az playground for the children Of the
wretched tenement houses In the adjoining
streets. As consequence Of its location PIN
chin street, in Whitechapel, running alongside
and partly under the railroad structure, is at
night deserted and silent in the center of a
neighborhood teeming with the vilest Of the
human dregs Of London.
Cable street, one Of the main arteries Of
travel in that part Of the city, intersects
Pinchin street just below on an intermediate
arch. and block to the westward Leman street.
great mercantile thoroughfare, runs from
White Chapel road to the river and from it
back. Church lane abuts upon the railroad
masonry. A gloomier spot or one better fitted
Tor q tragedy may not be found in all London.
THE CRIME DISCOVERED.
Early this morning q police officer, whose
beat is through this lonesome district, detected
in the growing light what seemed to be a
human body under one Of the lowest Of these
dark arches. Turning the light of his bulls
eye lamp upon the mass terrible and sicken-
ing sight was disclosed. Lying breast down.
ward upon the ground was the nude trunk and
arms Of a woman. The head and legs had been
severed and carried away, if, indeed, the
tered and bloody chemise was thrown over the
corpse.
The policeman blew his whistle as a signal
for the murderer to get out of the way, and,
after abundant time had elapsed for any one to
escape from the neighborhood, the police
formed Gordon around the spot and search
was made, with the result that three drunken
sailors were found in q state Of alcoholic coma
under the next arch, whose condition effectu-
ally exculpated them from any completely in
the crime. The reporters were carefully ex-
of the London police force brought to bear
upon the case. The result is that this, the
ninth murder within q period Of eighteen
months in Whitechapel, remains as great q
mystery as the other eight.
PLENTY OF POLICE.
This part of London is teeming with de-
tectives and policemen. baseball player
could throw a stone from the spot where the
Berners-street murder was committed by "Jack
the r Upper" September 80, last year. to the
arc h where the body was found this morning,
and fro m the arch he might throw another
stone into the Leman street police station, and
yet right through these swarming detectives
and policemen somebody had brought that
dead body and thrown it under the arch, OF
else the murder was committed on that spot
and the head and arms taken away.
The only reason for doubling the accuracy OF
the first theory is that the police hold to it, The
body is evidently that of young woman be
tween twenty and thirty years ofage, and there
is absolutely nothing about it in its mutilatec
state to give the slightest cue to its identity
The hands are not those Of a working woman
but there are no marks upon the fingers BY
which 1t could be conjectured whether or moi
she had ever worn wedding ring. She wa.
undoubtedly one Of the unfortunates who patrol
| the streets of Whitechapel.
This is evidently not one Of Jack the Ripper'i
crimes, and neither was that artist responsible
| for the previous murder in Castle Alley on July
16 last. The terrible significance of thii
mornings discovery is that it reveals the fac,
that there are two series of murders being
committed by two separate murderer's under
the eyes Of the police, in the heart of London
today. This is the fourth tragedy in which
only the trunk of a woman's body has been
found and the head and limbs not discovered
The first was found at Rainham, where it had
been thrown up by the Thames, three years
ago; the second was the body found on the en-
bankment, near Charing Cross, soon after; the
third was the trunk found in Battersea Park
last spring, the legs Of which we're afterwards
cast up by the Thames. In these three in
stances the bodies have remained unidentified,
and the heads have never been found.
TWELVE MURDERS IN ALL.
The present case will, doubtless, be identical,
as the prevailing theory is that this murderer
bludgeons his victims and then sewers and
burns the heads, throwing what other members
he is unable to dispose Of otherwise into the
Thames. Four undetected murders therefore
lie at the door OF this savage. The seven muir
ders in which abdominal decorations occurred
between April and November 8, 1883, may be
attributed to the Ripper, and the one of July
l6 last to vulgar imitator of the eviscerator.
In all there have been twelve murders, in cir
cumstances which should render the perpetra-
| tors usually easy of detection. but to whom the
police have not the slightest clue.
The London newspapers picture Whitechapel
m a state of panic-stricken excitement today.
Whitechapel, however, is in a state OF torpor.
The people have become SO accustomed to
these tragedies that they cease to excite any
! thing more than a mild interest and q vague
| wonder in the minds of street-walkers as to
which one will be taken next. When your
| correspondent visited Pinchin street under the
| railway arch at midnight tonight, a crowd had
gathered about the police Gordon, which for
| some inscrutable reason is drawn about the
| spot where the body was found.
Numbers of women lay asleep on the side
| walk and others were talking and testing with
women and children only stared alphabetically
| at the black hole where the bloody trunk was
| found, and perhaps found species Of gratif-
cation in conjuring up the probable details of
| the crime in their morbid imaginations. The
| police are as much in the dark now as they
were when tho hodv WAS fnnnd this vpornipor