The morning call., 1892-03-27

and her body horribly slashed with what
must have been a long bladed knife. mod
erately sharp and used with great violence.
The woman Was literally disemboweled.
After this crime the assassin did not rest
long. In a narrow space in the rear OF %
HanbuTv street, the fearfully muiila;ed
body OF Mrs Annie Chapman was found a
little after o'clock on the morning OF Sat
urday, September 3, by a man named John
Davis. who. with his wife and three sons.
lived In one room on the tep floor front Of
the house.
On the morning of September 80 two more
victims Of the Whitechapel assassin were
discovered, one in yard off Berner street,
the other IN corner OF Mtre square. The
first had been left dead with her throat cut.
the second was mutilated in an indescrib-
able manner. The remains proved 10 be
those Of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine
Eddo1es.
BY this time all London, in fact, the
whole civilized world, WAS aroused, and
the police force Of the great city was devot-
Ing It's entire energies To finding some clew
which would render possible the capture Of
the murderer. But though Whtechapel
was filed with officers in citizens clothes.
Mary Jane Kelly was hacked to pieces at %
Dorset street, Spitalfeds. A man was
seen TO accompany Mrs. Kelly to her room
before the murder, but there was nothing
by which lie could be identified, and once
more the authorities were baffied.
About this time letters signed Jack the
Ripper" began to be received by the news
papers and by the Central News Agency,
avowing that their author was the muir
derer. and that he was about to commit an
other On q shutter Of Whitechapel tene-
ment was found chalked one morning the
terrifying sentence. Fifteen before l sur
render" Whether this was really the work
OF the fend was. of course, a matter OF
conjecture, but they served to add to the
already prevailing alarm. Some time, how
ara o. nh haf har Cis rit
was reported. lending color to the theory
that Jack" was scafaring man. and had
gone ON voyage. On July II. 1889, after
an interval Of nearly year. London was
again startled. this time by the most auda-
cious crime of all-tbe slaughter of
dent Of the doomed district. The MUIR
derer was surrounded by the police
when he killed his victim. Before his
dreadful work could be completed the
tramp Of Constable 272 Ii drove the ghoul
away. The constable had left the spot 10
minutes before. On his return lie found
the mutilated body in front of house
wherein two people were retiring.
The body, when taken to the dead house
for examination, developed an unusual
dull knife. Heretofore the slashes had
been clean. Alice McKenzie's body bore
marks Of Jacks terrible methods, but not
of his execution. The clothes were drawn
over her hsad, after the knife had been
driven into her neck. A cut four inches
long, running toward the groin, had not
severed the abdominal wall. On both sides
of this cut and along the lateral line below
the breast bone were twenty scratches,
which would have been slashes with keen
knife. Every scratch was evidently an at
tempt to rip The woman had evidently
been taken unawares. as she was strongly
built and weighed 140 pounds. She could
not have uttered cry without her being
heard by the police.
The murder of Frances Cole followed, and
the staying of one or two other poor women
has also been attributed to the Ripper.
though some of his characteristic marks
were missing.