The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1888-10-09 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE LONDON MURDERS. ;  The police have obtained no further definite news as to the identity of the Whitechapel murderer, but they are busily engaged in piecing together the information in their possession, with a view to tracing his course on the night of the last murders and his movements generally, and also in dealing with the mass of communications volunteered by the inabitants of the locality in response to the request which has been officiady issued. '1 he bulk of the statements are on their face of no use, but by collating those which seem to bear on the crimes the police believe that they are gradually narrowing down the area of inquiry Several persons have been arrested and detained at local police stations until all circumstances in connection with their apprehension were thoroughly sifted. Several of these were given into custody on grounds which proved on inquiry to be flimsy, and oven foolish, and the police have in consequence been put to a good deal of trouble without any corresponding result. It seemed at times as if every person iu the streets were suspicious of everyone else he met, and as if it were a race between them who should be the first to inform against his neighbour. On Sunday evening a passing sensation was caused in Commercial-street by a very ordinary incident, which well illustrates the existence of this suspicion. East End athletes, whom circumstances prevent from practising in the country, are in the habit of organising running matches through the less frequented thoroughfares on Sunday evenings. In one of these competitions last night a yonng man who was far in advance of his competitors, was nearing the Shoreditch end of Commercial-street, running at high speed, when almost instantly the rumour speed that a man half-clad was running for his life from the police. People hurried to their doors end ran in the direction indicated, only to find that an r lary fcetr ice was in. progress. ..  - . . The announced intention of the aut'‘orities to employ bloodhounds in the hunt for the murderer has attracted keen attention.  The Working Men's Vigilance and Patrol Committee have been augmented by some able-bodied men well acquainted with the locality. ['hese were selected by a special meeting of representative working men connected with the dock industries. The new patrols will join in assisting the police to capture, if possible, the assassin, wh.), in the words of the chairman of the meeting, " has disgraced the name of civilisation."  A journalist, on Saturday night, attempted to play the role of an amateur detective by donning women's clothes. He succeeded in evading suspicion for some time, but eventually he was surrounded by son,e women who declared that be was a man, and as the crowd soon gathered and continued to increase he found it desirable to proceed to Southwark Police. station, where the people called upon the police to take him into custody; but as he was professionally wellknown there he was ultimately able to return to his home without further molestation.  A New York telegram states that the seaman named Dodge, who recently stated that a Malay whom he met in Loudon threatened to murder a number of Whitechapel women for robbing Lim, said that he knew the street where the Malay stayed, but that he would not divulge the name until be learned what chance there was of a reward. He stated, however, that the street was not far from the East India Dockroad, but he was not certain about the house where the man lived. Another seaman said he thought the Malay was now on a vessel p:ying in the North Sea. A SPTRITUALISr