The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1875-12-04 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

DEWSBURY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY, DECEAIBER 4, 1875.  and then cut her own throat? The evidence against the prisoner's brother was only sufficient to convict him of being an accessory after the fact, and probably our readers will think that penal servitude for seven years was quite sufficient for his complicity in the crime.  The Whitechapel tragedy, as it is called, con cerns us chiefly on account of the interest it has excited throughout the whole country. The murder was very commonplace—a man murdering a woman with whom he had cohabited; but what gives the :tragedy its interest is the manner in which it was detected, and the history of WAINWRIGHT himself. The audacity of the man in carrying the remains of his victim in a canvas parcel through the streets of Loudon startles most people. In indicates a character self-reliant, confident of safety in a crowd, and apprehensive of no detection after twelve months' immunity. Had he kept his eye upon STOKES, instead of leaving him to go for a cab, the probability is that he would have completed the transfer of the body to the new premises without detection. A. man cannot be vigilant and sagacious at every point. He no doubt thought that STOKES had no suspicions. Why should he '1 He was paid to carry the parcels; it mattered not to him what they were; and WAINWRIGHT was obliging him so far as to go' in search of a cab. Yet STOKES contrived, during WAINWRIGHT'S short absence, to peep into the parcels, and he saw the skull and hands. Had it not been for the inquisitiveness of STOKES, WAIN_ WRIGHT would have been safer probably in the streets of London than in a provincial Own or village. He had sufficient astuteness to see it. At night, he might have been suspected, but what danger was there in the broad daylight, when the East-end is thronged with busy passengers all thinking of themselves, and the police busy in keeping the thoroughfare from obstruction or directing some puzzled traveller  WAINWRIGHT'S fate is the crowning result of early acts of immorality. He was smart, ordinarily well educated, able to entertain a company with good tales, with a keen relish for the.conlical and grotesque; yet he was steeped in sensuality. He knew not what conjugal fidelity meant. He frequented the minor theatres, and was often behind the scenes; and HARRIET LANE, the daughter of respectable parents, who in an unfortunate hour came to London, became one of his mistresses. Extravagance soon dissipated his  f ltune, aud he began to find that vise is the most  expensive of indulgences. Then began the wish to stop the clamourings of HARRIET LANE and her children for bread; and the girl whom he had wronged, being no longer a victim for his lust, was sacrificed to his cool calculations of self-interest. When years before he won the virtue of the girl by declarations of love, he was probably sincere. What a sermon upon the inconsistency of man, the traitorous character of lust, is the sequel. We do not wish to preach, but the times call for a strong remark. We fear the men are only too numerous with whom sensuality is the primary object of life. They do not know what love is. They betray woman's frailty without scruple, and leave her heartlessly to break her heart. They probably know this will be the result, yet they do it. She will be out of the way they say Now, we charge against a large class of society, murders, not certainly equal in ghastliness and inhumanity to WAINwRIGHT's, but quite as heartless and selfish. Although the law catmot touch this class, there is very little difference between putting a deserted female out of her misery by a revolver, and leaving her to die of a broken heart through a series of injuries and neglect.