The Herald of Wales. — 1888-11-17 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TILE TIME OF MN MURDER. IMPORTANT BTATF2LENTS.  fiarctutier nsorniog. The Ottatral News says :—As has beau the case immediately after all the formes East End murders the streets and alleys of ;he ill-fated district presented lUI unusually quiet alt during the early hours of this morning. main streets, which are usually frequented by the watched =fort:zombie from whom the {murderer has selected his victim', were almost completely deserted, so much his the news of the hest murder torrifl xl them. It Is notirstable, however, that the excitement, which was very =eat when the first anacunta cf the murder  :lung a  were published, quickly abated, and late lest night and this morning, the horrible aim was dim:matted in Whitechapel in • callous and matter of fact way on all hands. A large number of detectives and plain clothes constables were on duty this morning, especially in Spitalfields, which neighbourhood the pelico have all along suspected as being the hiding place of the murderer. In this cue, as in the lianbury-street murder, the mutilations were far more elaborate and fiendish in their details , than any of the others, owing, it is thought, to the fact that the murderer was in cloee proximity to his retreat, and for this reason took more time to his work. The pollee, as far as can be aicertained from outside &pureed, have no clue whatever in wink on, and seeing that no actual description of the murderer can be ascertained, the work of detection is as difficult as ever. 'The only person under detention is the man who was arrested yesterday forenoon and brought to Girnmeroial-street Police Station the man who was taken to Leman•street station being released shortly after his satisfying the police as to having any connection with the Of dr "I hough little importanee is attached to the only arrest, the pollee are extremely reticent, and refuse to give any information regarding the man. On ergniry at the other Eist-end statiens including BiAopagate-street station, where any arrests on middle for the Mitre. sin ,re murder would be dealt with, the Central lire, representative was informed that nothit.g new had transpired. The Central News says an important statement was made this morning to a representative of the Central News by MIR Maxwell, the wife of the deputy of a lodging house in Dorset-street, situated just opposite the court in which the mime was oommitted. From the circumstantial character of Aire Maxwell's statement there is little doubt of its accuracy, and the police are now working on it in all directions. As Mrs Maxwell saw the deceased woman at nine o'clock on Friday morning, the crime must have been perpetrated in the broad light of day. Mrs Maxwell's statement is as follows:—" I assist my husband in his duties, but we live next door, at No 26, Dorset-street. We stay up all night; and, yesterday morning. a 8 I was going home, carrying my tautens sad other things wilt me, I saw the woman Kelly Mending at the entrance of the court. It was then about half-poet eight, and, as it was unusual for her to be steep about at that hour, I said to her, ' what: are you doing up so early?' She said, 'Oh, lam very bad this morning, I have bad the horrors. I have been drinking so much lately.' I said to her, Why don't you go and have half-a-pint of beer; it will put you right." She replied, "I have just had one, but I am so bad I could not keep it down." I did not know thea that she had separated from the man she hid been living with, and I thought he had been "paying" her. I than went out in the direction of Biehopegat• to do Peel. errands, and on my return I saw Kelly mending outside the public Louse talking to a man. That 11118 the last I saw of her.  LONDON, liaturday, 2 p