Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-09-14 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE POLICE OPERATIONS.  i Scotland Yard received a brief telegraphic mca,age, " Whitechapel again," and in the space of a few minutes they were able to telegraph all over the Metropolitan Police District as follows: —".48 5.40 a.m. trunk of woman found under larches in Pinehin-street ; age, about 40; height, sft. 3 in.; hair, dark brown; no clothing, except chemise, very much torn and blncelstained. !Both elbows discoloured, as if from habitual I leaning on them. Post-mortem marks around I wrist, apparently caused by a rope.'' It may be mentioned that the first brief message was ! readily understood, being in the form of a ' signal arranged as part of the police system organised for the detection of crimes in Whitechapel. Immediately after the receipt of the mes-age the Thames police, under Detective' Inspector Regan and Chief-Inspector Moore, I took prompt measures for watching sold searching craft in the river. Attention was specially I directed to cattle boats, and those from Spain • and America. Several vessels in the London Idocks and the Millwal docks were boarded and searched, and enquiries male as to the men engaged in the crews. One of the first things ! discovered by the police when a thorough search was made was three sailors sleeping iu a railway ' arch adjoining that in which the remains were found. They were detained and closely ex. amuied at the police station, but it was evident they knew nothing of the murder or the depositing of the remains at the spot. They had neither seen or heard anything, and were accordingly I discharged. The police have paid visits ta most ot the lodging-houses, but have not been able to discov.r any clue. It is not thought that the crime was perpetrated in a lodging-house. Ihat would be an impossibility. It was most probably coinnutted within a short distance of the place where the body was found, and it may be taken for granted that the police will leave no stone unturned in their enquiries in this direction. But ,it must be remembered that there is in the I immediate neighbourhood a dense population, and the work will be DOB of extreme difficulty. It is almost inconceivable that a person should have been able to carry the body about the streets at that time in the morning without attracting notice. Shadwell is alive at that early hour, and the streets are filled with people on their way to work. It goes withont saying that the body was wrapped in something, I and teat the murderer, with a view to destroying clues, ran a fearful risk of discovery by I stopping to unwrap the body in order that he might take the wrapping, whataver it was, away with him. Here, then, are all the facts and surmises that the police have before them, and so futile have been their researches that no persohs were under arrest. The police ! are somewhat disiucliued to attribute the crime to "Jack the Ripper." In many respect! ; I the crime bears a striking resemblance to that which was known as the Thames ! mystery, during the early part of the summer. It will be recollected that in that case the dia-1 membered remains of a woman, enveloped in ' scanty underclothing, were found on different days in and about the Thames at Battersea. .In view of these facts it was deemed advisable that Detective-Inspector Tonbridge, I who conducted the investigations in the Thames mystery, should be called in. Accordingly in compauy with the Chief Constable (Colonel Morsel', he visited the place where the discovery was made, and subsequently viewed the remains. "