... prevented judicial murder—at th® sacrifice, no less, of own happiceoa,” “RIPPER MURDERS MELBOURNE. THREE VICTIMS. the Whitechapel fiend * tailor one of the numerous voseels trading between London and Melbourne ! In CoUingwood, a popular suburb Melbourne ...

... going relinquish their high position as Parliamentary boros «o easily. It is hardly likely that it is the notorious Whitechapel fiend who has turned in Now York. The murder which has been committed there certainly has many points of resemblance to the ...

... superficial longitudinal cut on the lower part of tho trunk, Tho murderer had, evidently imitated the methods of the Whitechapel fiend. Tbe doctor is of opinion that death was caused strangulation, there being a cord tied round the child’s nock with a ...

... difficult to trace. Hut, least, this evidence seems to dismiss the moat repulsive theory that she fell victim to the Whitechapel fiend in the new character of strangler. Tho tracing the woman’s family connections throws but little light upon her death ...

... The notorious Burke and Haub smothered their victims simply to sell the bodies for use in the dissecting room. The Whitechapel fiend appears to have been actuated by similarly horrible motive—by the same cruel, relenteas, savage determination in compassing ...

... crime bears a close resemblance, in all its hideous features, to the bloodthirsty series of butcheries with which the Whitechapel fiend horrified the world last year. The victim has been identified poor unfortunate, who was well known to the police in the ...

... gruesome question suggests itself. Is the childculprit an imitator “Jack the Ripper?” Has the narration of the deeds of the Whitechapel fiend, and the evil notoriety they have gained, turned the brain of morbidly susceptible youngster and filled them with a momentary ...

... (|nite unusual disadvantage. Indeed, it would in great measure absurd to say that the first step towards catching the .Whitechapel fiend would be to replace Mr. Matthews and Sir Charles Warren by other and abler men. But the theory of exceptional cunning ...

... eluded detection in all hia previous crimes would give himself away so easily at last. It may be, of course, that the Whitechapel fiend, whoever he may be, is not as clever as imagination has pictured him. For the present only right that judgment should ...

... In a word, every circumstance points to a foul murder, and the hacking of the body might have been the work of the Whitechapel fiend himself. Limb bones were broken in order that the body might be squeezed into the box ; and the bowels protruded through ...

... drawback of antecedent friction. The story related in to-day’s papers, true, ought lead to the spoedy captare of the Whitechapel fiend. Shortly before the murder, the deceased woman was seen in the street in company with a man whose dress and appearance ...

... same atoalthineaa of action, the same capacity for disappearing into the infinity space which marked the movements the Whitechapel fiend. He could only just have vanished from his victim as the policeman came upon the scene. Here, perhaps, wo get the reason ...