The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-25
Hunting "Jack the Ripper"
Thrilling Experiences Of Man who Posed as DecOy
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The recent scare among Denver wo-
men because of the raids of the Capitol
hill thug reminds me Of the reign OF
terror among the denizens Of the
WhitechapeI district, London, during
the months of September and Novem-
her. 1858 I had been in London for
some months. playing at Henry nv
ing's Lyceum theatre, and during the
months mentioned was appearing as
Joseph Surface, with Kate Naus man, IN
THE School for Scandal
Jack the Ripper at that time was
q common phrase around the LoWn-
Those three words, Jack the sRlppef,
We're enough TO blanch the cheek OF
every woman and send children shrek
ing into their homes. No one can IN
derstand the reign of terror that there
existed. and strangely, for among that
class fear is an unusual emotion
No one had ever met the creature
and lived to tell the tale. so that inn
penetrable mystery seemed to surround
HIM IL vas this element Of the Won
derful assisted il making his muir
ders yuccessful.
Tn. irst murder was that Of wo-
man described as a blear-eyed bag
She was found on an embankment IL
the Whitechapei district, her throat cat
from ear to ear. her body frightfuiiy
mutilated.
The second victim was Martha Tur-
ner. a hawker. Her body was found
on the first floor landing of the George
yard buildings. in Commercial road,
Spitalhelds. Tuesday, Aug. Z.
The third was Mary Ann Nichols
This murder occurred two days later
in Bucks row, near the house of Mrs.
Green.
The fourth victim was Annie Chap
man. who was killed Aug. II in the
back yard Of q Mr.. Richardson %
Hanbury street.
The fifth was on Sept %. when an
unknown woman was found dead a
Gateshead NewcaStle-0n-Tyne
The sixth was Hippity Lip Annie,
Sept. so, on Berners street. Her throat
was cut, but before he could mutilate
Ter the murderer was frightened away.
The seventh happened fifteen min
utes later on the southwest corner Of
AIitre square. The murdered woman
was unknown.
The eighth victim was found Oct. L
on the site of the intended Metropolitan
opera house. She was unknown and
the body was deCOmpOSed.
The ninth occurred Nov. 8 Jane
Lawrence was the unfortunate. She
was killed in her room on Dorset street.
The tenth crime was committed Nov.
%, and the victim was without name.
During the ten days prior to Feb. ?,
1889, ten crimes of an Identical charac-
ter to those peTpetrated in Whitechapel
were committed in Managua, Near
aqua.
July II, 1899. a doctor in London, at
times demented, confessed that he had
used surgical instruments ct times
when he was unconscious and had not
assisted in any operation
Victims All OF One Glass.
This vas all the data obtainable The
victims were all dissolute women, and
10 n
lied each case. The throat was in
vaTiably cut-as a rule from ear to ear
and the body was savagely slashed
and mutlatad.
It was the night of Sept. 3, 1883. that
made London, great as It is, roar with
indignation from center to circumfer-
ence. In Berners street. Commercial
road. Whitechapel. the body of a wO-
man, identified as "Hippity Lip Annie,
was found by a teamster, still warm
and cut and mutilated as in the other
cases. thus adding another to the
crimes of Jack the Ripper"
Twenty minutes later. at a distance
of a mile. a policeman stumbled over
the body of a woman in Mitre square.
She had been similarly murdered.
When YOU take into consideration
the fact that on that very night, in
BerneTs street there was a social gath
ering of the members of the Working
mems club. an organization in White
tinualv going back and forth to the
pub" adjoining the archWay where
the woman was found, it seems almost
incredible that a murder could have
been committed without noise or
screams that could have been heard
by the jewellers. 1t was only twelve
feet from the body to the door of the
saloon
Murders Deeply Mysterious.
sim more incredible seems the next
murder The Berners street body was
found at 11:20 o. m. The Mitre square
body was found at 11.40, yet the pO-
Hcemau, at 1913, had passed down
Mitre street within twenty-five feet Of
Mitre square and had looked in and
had seen nothing wrong.
ON his return at II 40. in passing the
square under a gas lamp at the i'm
mediate corner. the policeman saw d
woman lying on the ground. Running
To her assistance he discovered that
another victim Of Jack the Ripper
was in evidence He had the body
taken to the Old Jewry station mouse.
When you consider that it would take
twenty minutes as II took me- to
walk from Berners street TO CONNER
cial road; up that road to White
chapel; west on Whitechapel to Mitre
Square. one wonders how this thing
was done
The next morning London rang with
the news. The papers devoted pages
To it, calling on the police to suppress
this sCourge. Scotland Yard put in its
best men, and Sir Charles Warren.
since famous in the Boer war, then
London's chief of police. called upon
the guards and volunteers to patrol
Whitechapel thoroughly. At least 200
men were serving as detectives in that
celebr:--s7 7f=-ri~+
Interest Was Universal.
Natute----. tlil classes were interested;
particularly so were the American res
idents of London OF whom there were
great number at that time. We
used TO meet. probably twelve to
twenty of us after the performances
a. the theatres. at the Victoria hotel
A number of the boys felt like vOlun-
teering-
might saw incidentally that the
city of Londoc Nad offered $1,000 re-
ward for the apprehension of the muir
derer. Sir Charles Warren offered an
other additional e1. 900. The board OF
aldermen offered another E1000. and
at last the reward aggregated $1,000
This was to DE paid TO anyone prOduc-
ing Jack the Ripper" dead or alive
No one could give any description OF
him. as none who had met him had
ever lived TO describe him. Various
theories were offered as to his identity