The Herald of Wales. — 1889-07-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TILE SEARCH FOR THE MURDERER.  Lem:ow, 1.30 p.m. Nearly the entire available strength of the deteective department of the Metropolitan police, together with some men belonging to the City force have been drafted into the Whitechapel district, and are busily engaged in investigating the circumstances connected with last night's murder. So far, however, the information obtained has not been of a character to afford any 1 indication of the identity of the murderer. The clay pipe found alongside the body is in possession of the police, but it is not certain that it belonged to the murderer. The victim was an elderly woman of the most depraved class, and the pipe may have belonged to her, as it is by no means unusual for females in her ,condition of life to smoke, almost as habitually as men. All the common lodging-houses in the Whitechapel district have been visited, and there is reason to believe that the murdered woman will very shortly be fully identified. There is no doubt whatever that the murderer was disturbed at his hellish work, as the position 'of the body and the clothing clearly indicate that he was on the point of commencing to mutilate the corpse in his usual diabolical fashion. No one seems to have observed the murderer or to have seen the body before it was discovered wy Constable Andrews. As soon as that officer had ascertained that a murder had been committed, he blew his whistle loudly and continuot sly, attracting to the spot a number of persons, one of whom he placed m charge of the body, while he proceeded for assistance. As soon as possible, the police cordon was drawn round the scene of the murder, and every person within the area was closely questioned, and the houses immediately adjoining Castle Alley were also searched. It is a matter of general astonishment that not one of the persons who must have been within a few yards of the scene of the murder, ' while the murderer was actually engaged at his hideous work, heard a single cry or any other noise likely to attract attention. Many persons were in the houses in and around Castle Alley, most of them asleep, but some awake, but all state that there was no unusual noise between one and two o'clock, during which time the woman must have „been killed. Mrs. Smith, for instance, who -is the keeper of the baths in Castle Alley, informed a representative of the Central News that she and her husband were just going to bed shortly after one o'clock on Wednesday mornbag,when they were startled by a knock at the door, and on opening it they found that it was the policeman Andrews, who had just discovered the body, and called them up. Mrs. Smith is quite positive that there had been no noise whatever in the Alley for a considerable time previously. She went out with Constable Andrews and saw the victim lying on the pavement. She recognised the body as that of a woman who used the baths on Saturday to wash her clothes. A ticket is always given to the people using the laundry, and deceased used to give the name of Kelly, bnt at other times gave that of Murrell. She was always in a dirty condition. She did not know where she lived, as they do not take any address. Castle Alley, the scene of the murder, has been crowded by a continuous stream of sightseers going and coming, and the police have to regulate the traffic. At the Commercial Street Police Station enquirers are informed that there is no one at present in custody.  A Central News telegram from Toronto on Thursday says that the Board of Trade statistaca show that the wheat crop in Manitoba is wry short. H.M.S. Neptune went ashore early Dn. Wednesday morning, on the sand-bank, off Holy-head, but was got off, apparently undfarl- and proceeded for Portsmouth. The aeronaut Higgins and an assistant named Lenox on Tuesday ascended in a balloon ftim Manchester. Higgins descended safely in a parachute, but the balloon collapaed and tall with Lennox, who was instantaneously lolled. One of the Secretaries to the here has disappeared near BY are entertained that he has  rizt_h