Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1890-10-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FEMALE DETECTIVES ON DUTY.  The reeeipt at Scotland Yard last week of the warning totter signed "Jack the Hipper " has been ' the means of rendering the police new* vigilant, and creating more excitement among the in".abi. tents of Whitechapel. Superintendent Arnold and , the most experienced detectives os. corrc,mondeut adds) seem persesded that another horrible crime is aboet to be enacted by the "Terror of the East End," but it is believed they have more definite ground for apprehension than the communication referred to. They incline to the belief that the cominnmeation has emanated from the murderer himself, and that it is a mistake to regard it as a hoax. The beats in Whitechei el and Spindfields have been completely reorganised. Every person whose appearance or movements cause dui slightest suspicion is "shadowed" by plain clothes men. Several streets have been made during the last two or throe nights, but in each case the "suspect " was set at liberty almost immediately, being able to advance satisfactory proof of his innocence. But by far the most important arrangement, in the opinion of the shrewdest detectives, yet made to entrap the assassin should he attempt to add another to his already long list of crimes, is the employment of the clams of women he hes formerly chosen as his Viallllls. A number of these women have practically been engaged by the authorities to aid in the endeavour. to capture him. They have been converted for the time being into female detectives, , and from midnight till almost daylight they are ,to be Maud prowling about in all directions. Thky are instructed not to repulse any man who solicits them. They are guaranteed that they will be followed, and that there will be help near at hand should their companion attempt to harm there. They have an unrestrained license to go just where they please —s privilege strangely contrast ing with their treatment by the police at the periods the murdeis were done. Everybody wonders what sort of an indi, victual the champion woccian-alas,er is. Well, 1 it is certain he has not the appearance of the bloodthirsty demon which so many people believe the Jack of world-wide notoriety to have, lf he was a man of the rufnandike type, and if, as the police think, he does not try to ' conceal hinimelf, but hide> and mingles freely among the people of Whitechapel, he would most undoubtedly have been arrested long ere this time, for there is hardly a person who has been seen in the district during what are I called the "murder seasons" with the look of , a desperado who has riot been 'run in " and: obliged to give a satisfactory account of himself ' and of his movements at the tines the dark deeds were done. No; the murderer is supposed by the aiding detectives engaged in trying to hunt him up to be a very ordinary looking man, possessing no peculiar features, who is calculated not to attract special notice, and who is so cautious and artful that he can guard himself against all suspicion. He is not repulsive-looking, , they think, nor is he a man of whom anyone would feel afraid.