The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-23
SCOTLAND YARD RELICS.
come Horrible Aementoes and Ingen-
ious Criminal Devices.
From the Philadelphia Press.

ious Criminal Devices.
From the Philadelphia Press
The detective struck a match so that we
.,uld see our way down a narrow passage
I'D a crooked flight of steps. The steps led
ITO small whitewashed cellar with a
,rooden floor and skylight set in one
corner of the ceiling. Outside the high
Ills around the brick court, known as
scotland Yard, shut OF all but faint, fog
- Hght. Thedetective Lit gas Jet and said,
sSith a wave of the hand, This is what
"a cali the black museum; these are the
,sIics of all the principal crimes that have
ID any talk in London for over fifty
--sars" had prepared myself for a grue-
ssome chamber Of horrors, but the place at
he first glance wore a disappointing look
Of the commonplace. IL was much like
The back room of q junk shop, and all
that resembled a museum was the
.a1nter. which stretched around its
tonr walls and held the relics, labeled with
scrap of writing, or a clipping from
some old newspaper. But when the detec-
live began to give each inanimate exhibit
;+s story the place and the objects in it
hacame alive and pregnant with terrible
siTnifcance. Each scrap Of iron and rusty
Is,fa grew eloquent over the tragedy in
,ybich il had acted, and the daguerreotype
If beautiful woman or jewel box with
brCken clasp brought back picturesque and
fearful stories Of love and jealousy, and
ovarice and crime that Gaboriau might
have conceived and Poe or Stevenson
written.
REMINDER OF A TERRIBLE REVENGE.
The detective picked up a long, thin
| bortIe tightly corked and half-tilled with
5srk oily LIQUID. That is vitrol," my
guide said. shaking the bottle. "a Polish
lew grew jealous of a woman and threw
| her down and poured part of this stuff down
her throat A horrible death, sir.
But he hung for it. Most
If the money of all the Jews in White
chapel went to pay for his defense.
They uetitioned the queen. and they re-
tanned the best barristers in London, but
they could not save. And because they
conldn't save him they now do all in their
mower to mislead the Whitechapel police in
their search for Jack the Ripper. This is
Lipski's coat. You can see where the vitriol
has burnt it. 1t was one of the strongest
evidences for the prosecution.
"Here is something curious" he contin-
ued. ut may interest you, being an
American. It's the smartest yankee trick
ever saw. 1t belongs to a gentleman
gambler, an American, who had d fine
house in St. Johns Wood, where he used to
entice younger sons and boys with big in
comes TO win their money at cards. We
would never nave KIlOWu Oh ulIIl IL he udtln q
killed man there one night, and in going
over the place we found this" This was
leather sleeve to fit over the forearm. To
it was attached piece of steel mechanism
fashioned after the gates on ferryboat
that stretch half across the end of the boat
entrance, when open, and close into space
of q foot or SO when shut. This was worn
under the coat sleeve. and by resting the
forearm on the table, as a player at
r1s
send the miniature gate out until it reached
the edge of the wearer's cuff. There is a
cleft in the end, and any card the player
may think he will want later can be stuck
in it. By raising the arm the spring is re-
leased, the steel extension flies back, still
holding the card and keeps it hidden until
it is wanted. There is another invention
of the Americans for the same purpose
1t consisted of a fiat tin box, fitted inside
the waiSt-coat pocket and holding high
cards. which could be shot up out of the
box by the action of a stout string carried
down inside the trousers and worked by the
players foot.
He was very clever chap" the de-
tectlve admitted, but we had match for
him" he added with national pride. ''That
was Charley Peace, the burglar"
JEKYLL-HYDE IN REAL LIFE.
Peace was the most celebrated burglar
England has ever known. He is not only q
hero in the East End, but you will find that
the club men and the diners-out of the
West End are well up in his wonderful
story. Every child that visits Nine. Tous-
saud's Chamber of Horrors is shown the
photograph of the gentle-faced, white-haired
old man who for so many years played
Jekyll and Hyde in deadly earnest. He
lived in Kensington and ostensibly kept a
store. In the afternoons he drove in I'M
fashionable but beautiful Battersea Park
IN the evenings he sat on his doorstep chat
ting with the neighbors and the bobby
Oh the beat whom he often invited inside
to have a half-pint of bitters with him.
But at night, when his neighbors were
snoring peacefully, the old man gathered
up his jimmies and his revolver,
covered his shoes with wooden stockings and
sailed forth to rob, and at last to murder.
he made the greater part of his own tools
and showed the mind of wonderfully me-
chancal turn. He also invented a hair
dye with which he could change the color
OF his eyebrows and hair at will, and he
used his own smelling pot. He had no ac-
completes. For years he carried out the
most successful burgaries In London to the
chagrin Of the police and the terror of the
householder, and when at last he killed a
man In trying to escape and gave the police
acew, his ingenuity in evading them made
MN national character
-, Among the relics they have of him in the
Black museum is his wooden ladder, which
measures only II by 10 inches when closed,
and which, when open. reaches to a second
story window, and the false arm with a
nook in it, which he wore over his left
land, la Capt. Cutie. to mislead those
VINO were looking for a man with q
broken finger on his left hand"
"A wonderful man, that. sir" said the de-
!ectlve "Did you ever hear what he said
to the chaplain who attended him before he
was hungs The clergyman mad been talk
ing TO HIM of the life and death of Christ
ana Peace said to him: DO you believe
mat. Well, if | were free and believed
..lat, I'd walk the world over on my bare
ieet on broken glass to tell it to every mis-
efable devil l met"
j f Smith q ca 81 Inuis Mo Ihnuo