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mmmammm i a a a M '" ' HisMMsasJSsslW!MMBsW1M " " !9 M - : . rl - -x. 'Si tti v ii TDE BRmSH GHODL Mysterious Murder and Mutila tion of Eight Women. " THE SLUMS OF WHITECHAPEL. Three Haulers . Hefore 4be Public Wei Interested Two More Create a Begalmr Panic The Isolated Case 1b -the Kecta of Enjlnad Two More, mad the Meat Shrlf"c eT All. Within Oae Doer A Helen of Terror In UTiltecbpel-TBe Various Theories: An American, a Homicidal Lauatic, a "Sexual rcrvert," a tj-ip or a Mediraal Glioal? During tho first week In ISeptember the people of London learned with amazement, not unmised with horror, that there was an unknown and mysterious murderer haunting that district commonly called WhitechapeL To describe the central section of tbisdis-' . . . . .. , M . . ,,. j. . tnct in terms fit for reflned readers is not possible. It combines the worst features of old "St. Giles," as London novelists once de- scribed itj of tho Five Points of New .York as it was in 1S50 and of the Chinese quarters of San Francisco, and has, in addition, some local horrors of its own. WnAT WU1TECHAPEC IS. It is a tangled wilderness of narrow streets and shut alleys, dark lams and dirty courts, surrounded by vilo gin shops and viler lodg ing houses. It is tho center of tho noted East End of London, and lies on both sides of tho broad Whitechapel road, which is the main outlet in that direction through Strat ford and Ilford into tho agricultural districts of Essex. The population of Whitechapel inav bo broadly divided into three classes: Tho fairly well to do tradesmen, tho indus- trious but ill paid artisans; and the hopeless, I homeless, helpless thousands of unemployed j who drag on on existence from day to day as devoid of ease and comfort as any of God's creatures on this broad earth. Common lodging'houses-abound in Whitechapel, and wretched and miserable as are every variety of these refuges of tho destitute and desolate, tho East End "padding kens' enjoy an un enviable notoriety as tho filthiest and most disreputable of their kind. Within a very small territory, which is traversed by but five streets of any width beside the Whitechapel road, ore crowded at , least 150,000 human beings; and there vice prevails in its most revolting forms. By day tho district is comparatively quiet; but soon after nightfall nil tho "gin palaces" ore lighted up, dark red lanterns shino dimly in the narrow passages leading to the inner courts, tho occasional sound of music is heard from a low concert room or cellar "dive," and tho streets ore thronged by reckless sailors, adventurous apprentices, carious visitors and tho regular habitues of tho locality. And among tho latter arc hundreds of women whoso only care is to procure tho means for one day's food, one night's lodging, and the fiery liquor -which, temporarily drowns rea son and remorse. Of course, many of these women are accomplices in robbery; and tbero ore bouses in tho narrower streets lying off tho main thoroughfares in which i every facility is afforded for hocusing and robbing tho already half drunken prey Of " these painted jezebels. Scarcely a day passes ! but a talo of daring robbery is unfolded in i tho adjacent police court, in which these women and their conteniptiblo male com panions figure as tho despoi'ers of inebri ated sailors or workmen. Such is Whitechapel; such are its inhab itants and visitors, and such are tho women from whom this modern ghoul selects his victims. Tho reader will seo at once why the case presents almost insuperable difficul ties to the Kliec Kbt only is tho environ ment tho lnt fcr murder, but tho victims naturally avoid tho police, and conduct tho murderer to tho most secret places. WORK OF THE FIEND- Tho i .First Murder Was In August and At tracted Uttlo Attention. In August, 1SS7, tho first of these murder? attended with mutilation occurred; but ii was only noticed us a curious variation of tho many murders in Whitechapel. On tho morn ing of Aug. 7, this year, a policeman on hi3 regular lxsit in the rear of old Whitechapel church found tbo body of a poorly clad woman on tho pavement in front of a row of small houses standing in a blind alley. Day was just breaking when tho officer found tho body. Sho was quite dead and her throat was cut from ear to ear. A sub sequent examination of tho remains disclosed tho fact that sho had been disemboweled after death. At tho inquest the body was identified as that of one Jlartha Turner, a social outcast well known to tho police of the district as an - habitual frequenter of tho Whitechapel road. Tho police, aided by Scotland Yard and city detectives, w orked until on the case, but failed to obtain the slightest clew to tho murderer. On Aug. 31, just before daybreak, a police man found another woman of the some-class, named Mary Ann Nicliolls, lying dead, with her throat cut in precisely the same manner os Martha Turner's had been and with the same nameless outrages committed upon tho body after death. Tho body of his second victim was found in Buck's court, a narrow thoroughfare running off Brady street and only 200 yards distant from the scene of the first murder. Tho woman Kicholls was well known in the neighborhood, but all efforts on the part of tho detectives to discover a motive for her assassination or tho wretch who had butchered her proved completely abortive. This third murder brought the matter to tho attention of newspaper readers every where, and scores of curious theories wero offered. The police force of the neighborhood was doubled, scores of detectives from other districts were dropped into the, district. Citi ens by tbo hundred patrolled tho streets throughout the nights, suspicious looking men prowling around .after dark wero ar rested on suspicion by tho score, but tho mur derer remained at large. Exactly a week later, almost to the very hour, a policeman discovered the dead body of Annie Sievey in the open doorway of a tenement house in Hanbury street, a narrow lane at tbo back of one of the great Whitechapel breweries. Again the victim was an "unfortunate," and again her throat was cut from car to ear, but in his devilish treatment of the remains the fiend had exhibited an accession of blood curdling brutality hitherto unprecedented in the annals of barbarous and revolting crimes. He had actually torn out the women's heart and laid it across the face along with other portions of the viscera. TOT POLICE EEGEf TTOKE. The police redoubled their efforts: all the lodging houses of tbo district were polled, and every man required to give an account of himself, ilanv men yens arrested, but proved innocent; .but at length the public mind settled down to the belief that a wild looking, half insano Israelite of the vicinity was the guilty man. The police held him ' some time, but it was easily proved that he spent his evenings indoors, and that he had not the physical strength which circum stances show the murderer to possess. It is a curious fact, by the way, that the worst murders were perpetrated in a region occu pied almost entirely by foreigners, and one of them under the very windows of a club house used by Socialists from eastern Europe. The fourth murder completed the frmin of evidence as to the general nature of the crimes. It was demonstrated that the mur derer possessed great strength; that he was able to prevent his victims from making an OBtcry; that he probably killed at a single blow; that his animosity, or whatever the motive is was directed against a single class, or that bo. considered them safer victims; that robbery was not a motive, and that he was probably actuated bya monomaniacal frenzy cot inconsistent srith apparent sanity ia other matters, of which mental and moral pet version history unhappily gives manyin atsarns And on these facts local opinion ttriteted the murders to a mysterious per soa called "Leather Apron," because beware oae of those articles and no one knew his real No one can remember having seen this aaan ia the daytime, and he has not been arrested; btit some of the women of the quar ter testify that be' was often seen at night, aad that be wore a shoemakers knife voder is apron.. Since the search became very yicorcmtoautaocottAMea. THX aXBOXa.AT GAXX8SSAS. Tbsrewasapaoseof two wedes, and then a-womanof the tamo class was found dead and similarly mutilated in Gateshead. This is part of the great northern English seaport andnTannfartnrlngtowiNewcastle-OD-TyneL Newcastle lies on one side of. the river Tyne and Gateshead on tho other. The two towns are connected by three bridges. The iron foundries, locomotive works, machine shops and many other important industries are. located in Gateshead and the contiguous dis trictsof Biker, Walker and Scotswood. Many thousands of men are employed in the various -works, and they and their families reside for the most part in and around Gateshead. The last year or two fully one-fifth of the whole working population of the district, which numbers over 12,000, have been out of em ployment, and during last winter but for tho establishment and maintenance of a liberal scheme of outdoor relief hundreds must have literally perished of hunger. The people nro densely ignorant, brutal in their habits, and . live for the most part in a condition of filthy I squalor. The speech of the natives is simply unintelligible to strangers, and tbeir manners are as rough and harsh as their vernacular. The abandoned women from amongst vrbom themurdcrerherc.'asin Whitechapel, selected his victim ore in Gateshead sunk to the lowest depth of human abasement I absurd theoeies advanced. ' About this time two curiously absurd stones , gained credence. It was said that an Ameri- I mmodical i offered a large snra tor several specimens ot tho uterusand that ho, or some vile agent of his, was murdering these women to obtain them. For somo time tho alleged "American" was eagerly lookedfor; but the fact that such specimens can be obtained at small expense dissipated that theory. Another was that the mur derer was a woman dressed in man's clothes; but no motive could be conceived. Another theory that the murderer had suffered rob bery or worso by association with such wo men, and was seeking revenge is still main tained by many; but medical men arc almost unanimous in tho opinion that tho perpe trator is simply a homicidal maniac, proba bly a "sexual pervert" one in whom tho natural instincts have been perverted by dis ease or excess into a blind hatred or morbid desire for blood. And while those theories were being discussed the most shocking cases occurred two murders within tho same midnight hour. A few minutes before midnight of Sept. 29 a woman's corpse, still warm and quiver ing, was found on tho sidewalk of Jlerners street, a narrow thoroughfare of the danger ous district; and an added element of amaze ment lies in the fact that at that honrtbero arc still many persons on the street, and at that very time the socialists were holding their meeting in tho hall near by. In fact, it was a foreign laborer on his way to tho meeting who first discovered the corpse most nonniD work. Tho blood was still flowing, tho corpse still warm; tho murderer had been frightened away before completing tho mutilation, yet he had hastily slashed and hacked the body. The chief commissioner of police, Sir Charles Warren, was hastily called from his bed, and ordered all the availablo policemen into tho district, in a short time they found another warm and bleeding corpse in Mitre square, not ten minutes' walk from the scene of the other murder. It was truly a night of hor rors. The murderer, evidently enraged at being driven from his first victim, had rushed to the next convenient spot and slaughtered the first woman ho could secure. Be had hod time to do his fiendish work thoroughly. The victim's clothes had been thrown over her head, and one horrible slash with a large knife bad laid the body open from tho pelvis to tho ribs. Across cut bad then divided it almost to tho back bona Tho viscera had then been torn out and scattered over tne corpse, and a great number of small slashes inflicted 'upon the corpse. Tho sight was indescrib- , ably horrible. Tho policeman who discovered tho body fainted. Tho next day I was one long to be remembered in White- j cbapeL Not only wero all tho denizens ? drawn to the spot by the horrible fascina tion, but many thousands from other parts of London. A correspondent of The Now York Sun gives tbo following: "London is dreadfully frightened. Scores -of women ore hysterical Tens of thousands could not possibly be induced to step out alone. Every one, of course, expects fresh atrocities, and that is how things stand at present. It is not flattering to tho police nor comforting to Londoners, who imagined themselves well protected. The following tells what is known of the fresh7 crimes, which, as an evidenco of an almost unpre cedented condition of tho human mind, arc more interesting to the philosopher oven than tothosimplo citizen who likes to have his blood curdled. THE DEPTHS OF U' HlTttCHAFEL. "Your correspondent has spent from early evening until now, past midnight, wander ing through the Whitechapel slums. Tho best idea of the awful degradation of the men there can be gatheredfrom a description of tho women, whose ability to keep alive proves tho existence of men so low as to con sort with them. Thcso wretched women 1 swarm the-streets by thousands even now. but keep close together and look sharply around for murderers, even while pretending to laugh, and asking each other whose turn to bo cut up will come next The language in which they speak of the fiend who has made it his business to murder them it is im possible to reproduce. Such profanity and hideously foul language as may be heard coming from tho group of women of any Whitechapel corner can probably not bo heard anywhere clso. Somo of these poor animals have actually grown old in their misery, shriveled, horrible, gin soaked bags, who fight and quarrel on the gutter's edge, and to approach within yards of whom is torture. "The younger women, the queens of these slums, are even more distressing to look at Some are mere girls, almost children, but all celebrate any stroke of fortune by getting drunk. Bright colors distinguish them. Light blue is the favorite color. Cheap brocades, dragging in the mud, and ostrich feathers as sadly ont of curl oa the dissipated owners' hair, are favorite outward signs of such pros perity as may be attained in WhitechapeL The poor creatures when born were dropped upon the surface of the worst pool of degra dation that can be boasted by any great city on earth, and all they can do is to sink deeper down into it, fighting and drinking cheap gin as they go. "Infants crawling through heaps of refuse in the slums, never having been made jealous by the sight of clean, fat babyhood, wero fairly contented, and their parents 'evidently found their lives much enlivened by the sen sation T7hich has come upon them. Thescenes of both murders were swarming with curious crowds, preference being given to the place where the most savage murder occurred, and up to to-night morbid citizens were busy lighting wax matches In the dark corner of Mitre square trying to discover bloodstains." SEEKING THE MURDERER. Civicism of tho Police Testimony false Confessions. Much unjust criticism of the London police has resulted, but a' glance at the testimony trill convince any one that with such wit nesses and in such a locality it is almost im possible to get a clew. For instance, at the inquest on the body found in Bernets street, a sister of the victim was called and deposed that she awoke and heard kisses and a sound which she thought was made by a person falling to the ground. She was convinced that her sister was dead, and, after reading the accounts of tho murder in the newspapers, went to the morgue and recognized the body of the murdered woman as that of her sister. As she lives some distance away, this is taken to prove that the body of the murdered woman was carried to the place where it was found. But how could the perpetrator do that without getting blood upon his clothing; and how could a man with bloody clothing escape all scrutiny! To such questions the police have as yet no. answer, and the stu pidity or drunken indifference, at the time of the murder, of the friends of the murdered j women appears to be such that very little can be learned of them. The inquest on the other body found that night was somewhat more satisfactory. It was shown that the murderer met the woman at some distance from the square and walked withher along the main street that led to the square. It was probably this fact that caused the murderer to mutilate the face of his vic tim, as he feared that they bad been noticed in company together and the woman identi fication would lead to hte capture. The faces of! the other Whitechapel victims were un-tofJckedwbBe-tluK one's was backed. bevosjd reeogatorjitr various meattifalwera toed adopted by the people of the east end for tbeir protection, as .little confidence is felt in the police. That night fifty workingmen, all armed and ready to 'attack even a blood thirsty insano man, patrolled the neighbor hood frequented by the murderer. The papers print columns of letters on-the subject every day and suggestions are numerous. The' latest is that public prayers shall be said as a means of gaining relief from tbisepi dcmfctfniarders. The next suggestion was by a sauor named Bodge, who declared that in August last he met a Malay cook named Al Aska, with whom be bad previously been acquainted on shipboard, in a music hollin London, and that Al Aska told him be had been robbed of all he had by a woman of tho town, and threat ened that unless he found the woman and re covered his property he' would kill and muti late every Whitechapel woman be met The police searched tho city, but no such Malay was found. - DELTJSIOXS OF FEEBLE hUXDS. And now appeared ono of the. strangest phenomena'connected "with -such, crimes one that all criminal history shows to be a con comitant of popular excitement. People be gan to "confess" one in person and many by letter. 'John Fitzgerald surrendered him self to the police as the murderer, and appar ently thought he was; but ho was easily proved to be a feeble hypochondriac. A let ter signed "Jack the Ripper" was received by tho police. It addresses the chief as 'Dear Old Boss,'' .confesses, to the murders aiul says tho motive is revenge. Another let ter of "confession" gives religious conviction as tho reason, and alleges that tne writer has a mission to drive all lewd women from London. 'FIFTEEJf MORS!" On tho wall by one of the victims these words were rudely scrawled: "This is five; Gf. teen more and I give myself up;" and vari ous letters in the same strain havo been re ceived. During the same time there has been u great increase in robberies and street out rages in every part of Loudon. Another horror, the seventh for London, came to light on Oct. 2, when a woman's corpse, far advanced in decomposition, was found within sight of the police headquar ters in Scotland Yard. It had been literally backed to pieces,, and a pair of arms found in another place some time before were proba bly those of this corpse. One important fact was now proved. When the murderer wrote on tho wall that be had. killed five only four were known; it is evident that this last dis covered woman was killed before that time, and the police accept this as evidence that tho writer was the wholesale murderer. But whether that knowledge brings them any nearer catching him is quite another matter. For the present London holds its breath in a sort of tremulous waiting for an other murder. Tho situation is not without some amusing features, and surely a little of that sort of thing will be a relief after such a feast cf horrors. Tho Sun correspondent above quoted writes: OEM HUSfOB Or THE CASE: "The greatest effect produced by tbo scries of butcheries has been upon women of a dif ferent class. Probably the most hysterical female in existence just now is the, as a rule, calm and unmoved London chambermaid. When the London fog creeps down now it -finds lots of park benches, in the West End on which thero is neither chambermaid nor sol dier. That is beyond oil question an entirely new sensation for the London fog. "A friend has assured me that peace has reigned in his household since Sept. 8, when the terror commenced, because not a solitary female servant has wanted an evening out. This effect of the murders has not done the gentleman's wife as much good as it would have done but for the fact that she is most awfully frightened, too. Another friend, less fortunate, finds himself deprived of the serv ices of his only male servant, as tho maids and cook must have their airing, and won't go out alone. "Theories are being built up by thousands, bat they arc not worth much. I chanced to hear that of George Lewis, the best known solicitor in London. He believes the woman killer to bo a religious maniac, who has sworn to root out the social evil, and has adopted the olan in each case of making his pumsnment so awful as to deter outers from evil ways. This view, I learn, is. shared by Sir James Risdon Bennett, an eminent au thority on lunacy, who has expressed tho opinion that the murderer imagines himself ordained from above to kill all bad women, and has set about his difficult task with . lunatic enthusiasm. CLUKSHTESS OF THE POLICE. ' ''Until something is found out London is going to bo mighty nervous, and it grouts evident that if the murderer is taken it will be his fault Detectives in plain clothes, on whom London relies, are swarming in White chapel, it is true, but as a rule they wear regular police boots nnd go two by two. They may readily be distinguished a block off when. it's clear. I would again adviso some American to come over and prove that there is still a detective left who can detect" The London police labor under some pecu liar disadvantages. By tho last returns they number 10,940, as against 8,250 in.Paris and 3.2G4 in New York: bnt London contains three times as many paaple as New York; is spread over six times the area, and yet the very ppor and the lowest criminal classes ore as crowded as in New York and their dis tricts are vastly more difficult to police. A considerable portion of the older part of the city of London is built on the most irregular and confusing lines. Dark alleys, small courts, squares having but one street of egress, and narrow lanes make up a good part of tho great city, and it would require at least 50,000 policemen properly to cover the whole of London. The stringent police regulations, which require the emptying of public houses at the hour of 1, while adding to the security of those parts of the British metropolis where such houses most abound, increase also their insecurity after that hour. With, therefore, a force of men wholly in sufficient for tho first duty they havo in hand tho watching of the public streets it is not strango that in such dark corners as Mitre square such daring deeds of violence are done after nightfall with impunity. An excited and indignant public must have a scapegoat, and London has, by com mon consent, selected for a victim Sir Charles Warren, chief commissioner of police. Much color is given to the common accusation by the fact that there was a serious quarrel among the police after the Trafalgar square riots, and that in Au gust last the force was generally remodeled. After being badgered bya corps of critics and men offering all sorts of suggestions, Sir Charles has consented to tho use of blood hounds for tracking the murderer, but the methods proposed for their employment roako it plain enough to an American that the Londoners, know very little about tho nature of that brute. OPINIONS OF AI3ESISTS. Of course all the eminent alienists have been called on for an opinion, and their con current statement as to what a lunatic is capa ble of doing without detection is enough to frighten the London women out of their few remaining senses. They report and cite many cases to prove that the old notions of human vampires, ghouls, weir wolves and demoniacs were based on actual facts; that in every age there have been men seized with an insane desire to slay and mutilate women, that along with this there is often an unnatural cunning in concealment and that actual cannibalism is not an unf requent accompaniment Dr. William A. Hammond adds that what are called ''sexual perverts" are practically unknown'in America, bnt in countries where there is less fredom, and where the relations of tho sexes are not on such a natural basis, they are often met with. Perhaps the most recem) case of note is that of Sergt Bertrand of tho French army, who was arrested in Paris as a ghoul in 1847, and convicted of digging .m tho corpses of women in the cemetery, io particulars of . his cannibalism, published by the French medical author, Morel, cannot be even hinted at hero. HORRORS OF THE PAST. Philippe of Paris Vitriol Throwiac; la New York Murders la Austria. Not many years after the case of young Philippe, in Paris, excited a great sensation. lie was of excellent family, . bright ant7, amiahlff, and- gavo great - satisfaction to his employer, a druggist . and man of science. One night be absented himself -from home, and' the next morning tbo police called to say that be bad been ar rested for no less than seventeen bTtly murders, the victims being women of the same class as those .who have lately been so fladishlTJbtttchered in hmpdop. . . It was by the merest enance'iie was dnV covered, his intended eighteenth victim hap pening to see him secreto a razor under the pillow. The' room Was ovcra wine shop, and she, on the plea of feeling unwell, sq she would step downstairs for a glass of brandy, which be, unsuspicious that he had been ob served, allowed her to da The woman called the police, and. Philippe was.' arrested, when be candidly confessed that ho was. the ff" who had been searched, for in vain far so long, lie afterward stated that his actions had been simply tbo result of a horrible mania, and that be had escaped detection only by a series of the most marvelous dis guises that could be suggested by the deadly cunning of a maniac. CRIMES OF FBKXCH SOLDI2BS. During the "Dragonnades".in France, when a brutal soldiery was allowed to live at free, quarters on the" Huguenots, a peculiar habit of crime, if tbo expression may be used, grew 'up; and many of the soldiers thus demoral ized and morally deranged could never after1 - ward bo' trusted alone in peaceful com munities. Most of tho crimes they, per petrated cannot even be alluded to here, but one was so contrary to all . the natural feelings of manhood that it is beyond one's power to couceivo of any rea son for it That -was, tho cutting off. of women's breasts; done at first as a punish ment, it came to be a method of gratifying a morbid appetite, a frenzy .of tho thoroughly perverted and demonized animal man. In the last century an Austrian committed several atrocious murders of women; tho number could never be ascertained, but it was proved that be ate tho most delicate glands. Greek mythology tells of tho i ban quet of Thyestcs and other cases of canni balism, and the Arabian Nights tales arc proof to the western world of how general the belief in tho possibility of such perver sions was and is among the Orientals. Tho American Indians havo a superstition that one who has eaten human flesh, through be ing driven to it by famine, will never again like any other meat as welL It is quite pos- siblo that all these barbarian notions wero derived from a few observed cases of this truly depraved taste. That such things havo been is proved; but how and why man could become so morbid, so degraded, no normal mind can .conceive. CUKIOfilTIES OF CBTXE. Of murder fcr mere murder's sake, with no other circumstance of horror, the cases ore many; add of causeless, cruel mutila tions without killing, the cases are more nu merous stilL In London, in 17J0, a wretch named Renwick Williams stabbed several tidies as they left the theater, and so sudden an l dexterous were his movements that he escaped arrest for a long time, creating a regular panic. The villain who threw -vitriol on ladies in New York some years ago, and tho men or boys who slyly pinch, or scratch or cut when they can escape arrest, are well known cases: and it is more than. likely that this frenzy also grows by indulgence, and that if undetected the perpetrator would go from wounding to murder. THE ONCE KOTED-'bEXDEBS OF KANSAS. America has bad cases enough of cause less and motiveless killing, but of sexual mu tilation there is but one authenticated case, and that was by a woman the notorious Kate Bender, of Kansas. Her victims were all men, murdered for money, but the corpses wero mutilated, and as the excised portions were never found, tho people of the vicinity came to the conclusion that they were used in some of the heathenish ceremonies per formed by the thoroughly abandoned woman. , The name of Patty Cannon was otie of horror to a whole generation of Americans. She kept a country hotel in eastern Pennsyl vania, and after murdering several persons for money, appears to havo killed from mere hatred of mankind. In her case sexual per version undoubtedly had much to do with it. Tho life of Sophia Hamilton, who kept a ho tel on ono of the roads from New ' York into Canada, was very similar. The recent cases of Guiteau'and Jesse Pomeroy are familiar toalL THE BCBKE AXD HARE UURDEBS. "Burking" is mi adjective in our language which immortalizes the infamy of one man; and so strong an effect did his crimes huvo upon tbo popular mind that after tho laim of sixty years one may still hear occasionally cf a nervous and ignorant person who is nfraid of being "killed and cut up by the doctorsf Among tho southern negroes this fear at times rises to a regular panic. William Burke was of County Tyrone, Ire land, and William Hare, a Scotchman; the latter had a wife, and tbo former lived with a woman named Helen MacDougal, and these four kept a low lodging house in the outskirts of Edinburgh. Auold man died whileu lodger in their hotel; they 6old his body to tho medical college for L 10s., and this suggested such an easy way of making money that in a few montlis they murdered and disposed of no less than sixteen persons. After the natural death mid disposal of tho lodger Burke used to frequent tho low public houses of tho neighborhood, and when bo found some wayfarer without a home or tho-means of obtaining a shelter ho would offer a lodging. The victim was industriously plied with liquor till ho or she became unconscious. Then tho two . would fall upon the victim and Hare usually j choked the poor wretch to death. The two women were undoubtedly privy to the crimes, but they invariably left the room while the murders were being perpetrated. THE FIBST OF THE HlMMlgg, The first of the series of sixteen murders was committed in January, 1823, and the last, that of an old woman, Mary Docherty, in October of tho same year. This last crime led to the detection of the murderers, their arrest and the trial, conviction and execution of Burke. The woman MacDougal was ac quitted. Hare saved bis neck by turning king's evidence, and bis wife also was used as a witness in the case. The murder of Mrs. Docherty was discovered by a Mr. and Mrs.- Gray, who lodged in Hare's house. They heard a noise as of quarrel ing and fighting after they bad retired ono night and the next day Mrs. Gray found Mary Docherty 'a body concealed under a heap of straw in the Hare's bedroom. After Burke's conviction he madoafull confession. The first victim was one Abigail Simpson, a middle aged woman, enticed to the house by Hare's wife. Sho was induced to drink, went off in a dead sleep and was suffocated in the early morning. Then followed an Englishman, name unknown, who came to lodge at Hare's. The body, like the preceding one, was sold to Dr. Knox for 10. Then came a nameless old woman who took a night's lodging by chance in the murderer's den. Sha was smothered in the early morning in the usual way, with a heavy feather pillow, and that night the body was taken to Dr. Knox, who paid the usual sum for it . Margaret Patterson, a young and exceed? ingly handsome girl, was decoyed to the homo of Burke's brother, and there dis patched. She was carried four hours after death to Dr. Knox, who paid 8 for the body. An old woman and her grandson, a deaf mute, wero the next victims. Dr. Knox paid the assassinsJElG for the two subjects. As chance customers at this tiino became rare, the reg ular lodgers were now requisitjooized, and a man known as "Joseph the Miller,' -who was well connected and bad once possessed con siderable means, was smothered durin" the night and bis body sold for 10 to tho omniv orous Dr. Knox. Shortly afterwards Haro fell in with a woman of the town, enticed her to his house, murdered her single handed and carried the body round to the doctor, who gave him 8 for it A cinder gatherer known as "Effy was in duced by Burke to enter a stable occupied by Hare. Hero she was dosed with whisky. Sho fell asleep on a truss of hay and tho two villains smothered her in tbo usual way. For j this body they received 10. One night I uurke encountered a policeman dragging a half drunken woman to the lock up. He in duced the officer to release her, promising to seo her 'safe home to her lodgings. The wretch took her round to Hare's house, where they speedily smothered her and sold the body for 10. Their next victim was a half witted boy. And then, horrible to relate, they murdered Ann MacDougal, who had come on a visit to her cousin Helen, Burko's pretended wife. They next killed two poor women, Mrs. lial dane and her daughter Peggy; then Mrs. Hosier, their washerwoman; then a country woman named Hurd, and finally Mrs. Docb? erty. And only one of the four fiends' as hanged. Hare and his wife managed to get out of the country alive, though bauds of the poorer sort of people were on the-watch to kill them; they went to Australia, where she .died a natural death, and In 1855' be' returned to Edinburgh, a broken down old man, totally blind. .It was some years be fore he was recognized. Jteao while ha radedtbestreeatjeggmg, leaoylasmauaoir, i and. carrying a tin cup to receive the ootri- buttons of the benevolent When be 'found his identity was discovered he disappeared, and was never afterward beard 'of. Dr. Knox also gave evidenco in the case, and hit protestations to the effect that tbo idea never entered bis mind that the subjects had died by violence appears to have been believed by .the authorities, as no subsequent proceedings. were taken against him. When the woman MacDougal was released she, with almost incretUble audacity; at once returned to her old haunts. She was at once set upon by the people of the neighborhood, abd but for the fact' tho police watch office, to which she ran for protection, was doseut hand, would have been lynched. She was subsequently hunted out of Edinburgh and returned to her native place, Redding, in Stirlingshire. From there. she afterwards went to Glo!;ow and took up her abode with CousUuitiue' Burle, her lato paramour brother. And there she died, at a good age; and apparently in perfect peace. In all crimi nal .history it. would be .difficult to find tiioth'cr ca&oof two women and two men thus totally devoid of all conscience and of every moral TRYING THE BLOODHOUNDS. Sir CUartes Warren Lets the Dos Chase UJsa as an Experiment. The London police have engaged in what looks' to Americans much like comedy, that is in "testing" the bloodhounds.- The corre spondent of The New York Sun gives this ac count of it; It was barely daybreak, and the frost lay thick-upon -the grass, when War ren's stalwart form showed the way ti the place of trial, followed bya few experts, one holding a pair of dogs in the leash. SIR CHARLES' ENTHUSIASM. Sir Charles, in a fit of enthusiasm, offered himself, for a quarry, and started off at a good swinging-trot He was soon lost to sight, and then different policemen crossed his track.' The dogs were laid on, and worked surely bat slowly along until they arrived at the spot where the first policeman had crossed tho trail. Here the dogs were at fault for a time, but soon took up the scent again, the 2-year-old Burgho, who won first prize in the Now York dog show this year, leading off. Burgho has 'been trained from a puppy to hunt the clean shoe and was well up to the work, though evidently the scent did not lie welL Finally both dogs failed, going off on some sido scent- A new trial was started. Sir Charles again acted the hunted man, taking 1,200 yards start The dogs did well for a while, but finally were baffled, owing to the number of people who crossed the vraiL Three more courses were tried, but in only one did the hounds succeed in catching their man, and then they licked and fondled him as an old friend. SOT ALTOGETHER CKSATISFACTOItr. Considering .that the dogs were following the scent of a man alone, and that tho morn ing was extremely bad for following any trail, the result was not altogether unsatis factory. If tho Whitechapel murderer, o:i the occasion of his next crime, smears himself with blood or carries off any portion of the body, it is believed tbo dogs will hunt him aown. Sir Charles Warren, in his tight military dress, and puffing and blowing with his ex ertions, did not look a very dignified chief commissioner, bnt if ho went hack to Scot land Yard hot and tired it was certainly with tho most novel feeling that he had made a good start with his day's work. He was very mad when tho evening newspapers came. out with reports of his morning's do ings, which doubtless wero also read and noted by the murderer. PROBABLY A LUNATIC. The Opinions of Experts The Law of - Atonement. Professor Ordronaux, of Columbia College Law school, author of standard works on the legal bearings of insanity, and for niue years state commissioner of lunacy for New York-, gives this opinion : IS THE LONDON KIEND INSANE i "Tho murderer is a lunatic, of course. There is no doubt Of that His Very clever ness in eluding the police might bo a proof or it The devilish cunning and resourcoof some maniocs fa marvelous. The question 13, what frightful nightmare of madness is this that possesses him? .When ho is caught ho will speak out; ho won't hesitate to give rea sons as far as ho is able. "Meanwhile, we can only guess. But cases of the kind have not been so rare that we need guess at random. The vampires of tho middle ages that haunted tho cemeteries nnd dug up tbo bodies of women to tear the flesh from their lmnes were doubtless mad men of his caliber. They were a very real terror to their time, not nt all creatures of an excited foucy. At times their peculiar madness become fairly epidemic on the con tinent of Europe. Tho reason why the psy chology of tho middle ages presents mauy more such cases than our day is that then thev -ran' about unhindemd. whiln nnw- adays such lunatics would be very soon ar rested. Science may ridicule the idea of demonia- col possession. Those who deny that there is anything but matter will seo no proof to tho contrary. Proof expires with tbo conditions of matter you aro examining, and when you drop the subject as a mental and take it up as a moral question you tread on uncertain ground in a sense. It is true that you can not find a demon with a microscope or figure it out by tables of logarithms: and yet it is not irrational to suppose that a distinct evil agency does dominate the human mind under circumstances when it is overthrown to tbo last degree and has lost its personal and sub jective identity. When insanity, originating in a perversion of the sexual instinct, passes beyond bounds within which it can bo ex plained on conditions of physical deteriora tion, it is permissible to recognize a super human cause as tho controlling power in the domination of human conduct This is de moniacal possession. Granted that the only foundation for belief in it is tho utterly inhu- in.in nnd illmrlml rnnrlnrt nt thn vicHm rat if he alone of ten thousand lunatics similarly I affected goes this length, we shall have to sumo either that be is a being differently formed, which we cannot do, or that somt new agency is discovered in his case, as in J that of this JUmdon murderer. Here is where possession of an evil spirit' steps in to supply the explanation. It seems to me as admissi ble in this last emergency as the law of grav itation. Nobody sees it, yet nobody doubts it We all see its results. BLOOD ATONEMENT. "The law of blood atonement is written on the constitution of the human mind, and when utterly perverted by a sense of intoler able' wrong makes of the man such an ogre as this slayer of women. There are many kinds of vampirism, but they all cluster around this one idea of motiveless mutilation of dead bodies. No one would do the deeds of this monster unless dominated by the law of blood atonement mingled with an evil prin ciple that then takes the form of Amnni1 possession. "The law must furnish by punishment some motive for.the man to resist The tak ing possession of a mind is a gradual process, a consequence of willful sin against nature's law, or weak yielding. The whole subject opens up such a wide field of metaphysical study and religious suggestion that you can: not answer any question in one word, yes or no. It is yes up to a certain point and no be yond it" Dr. Hammond is also emphatic in his opin ion that such murderers should be executed. and alienists generally are adopting the view that a monomanias is often morally responsi ble for his condition and that the responsi bility can be fixed. And, adopting the opin ion of medical men, the London police now have a theory that satisfies them and claim to have a particular individual in view, and to possess corroborative evidence in support of tbeir theory. He has been repeatedly tracked and traced, and is a well known and wealthy resident of Grosvenor square, the' most fashionable quarter of London. A sen sation of immense magnitude is expected in connection with the matter. ' Judges are the ones who lay down tba law, and when it is nicely laid down tka lawyers jump on it. Phil Welch. "Irish-stew, a la Fsxnell," is on the hill of fare of an inexpssmura Hew York taxxrant. Justice is every sain's due, but woald ruin most people,-r-Unda "Did n't Know 'twas Loaded" May do for a stupid boy's excuse ; but whrnt cab be said for the parent who sees his child languishing daily and fails to recognize the want of a tonic and' blood-purifier? Formerly, a course of bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the - rule in well-regulated families ; but now all intelligent households keep AVer's. 3araaaarll1a, whirli H at once pleasant to the taste, and the most searching.and effective blood medicine ever discovered. Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton st.. Boston, writes:. " My daughter, now 21 years old, was in perfect health until a year ago wnen sue uegaii io coinpiam fatigue, headache,, debility, dizziness, indigestion, and loss of appetite. I con cluded that all her complaints originated in impure blood, and induced her to take Ayer'a Sarsaparilla. This medicine noon restored her blood-making organs to healthy action, and in due time reestab lished her former health. .1 tind.Ayer's Sarsaparilla a most valuable remedy foi the lassitude and debility incident u spring time." J. Cas'tright, Brooklyn Power Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.. says : "As a Spring Medicine. I find a splendid substitute for the old-time compounds in Ayer'a Sarsaparilla, with a few done of Ayer V Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go through the summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BT Dr. J.'C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price fl;sU bottles, &. Worts. 5s bottle. THE FOND FAITHFUL HEART. Deep dowaneath the bosom of ocean Unsounded by plummet or use. At peace from the storm and commotion. - That race o'er us billows of brine, There are secrets that time shall not fathom. There are Jewels unknown to earth's mart: As deep; as tree, and as prectoas Is the voice of the food, faithful heart. -Jessie Bartlstt Dark. Varleas Uses for Sawdast. ' The uses for sawdust are steadily mul tiplying;, and it is in ever Increasing de mand It is used very extensively in packing goods for shipment For stabling1 purposes it is used quite largely, being cheaper and .cleaner than straw. Many thousands of cords are used yearly in the manufacture of terra cotta. It also en ters largely into the construction of apartment nouses, for filling walta and floors to deaden sound. These are but a few of the uses for which sawdust is ia demand. ' Shingle excelsior, when made of cedar, is an excellent moth extermi nator, and is much used in packing. Planer shavings are used for all kinds of packing, and also for bedding' in stables, stock cars and stockyards. Bangor (Me.) Industrial JoarnaL Callways la Sooth Asnerica. The average reader will be hardly pre pared to learn that in the Argentine Re public railways are multiplying so rap idly that it is proposed to introduce legis lation against paralleling.'' Competing and unnecessary railways are being' pro jected in large numbers, and the country is fairly wild over railways. The repub lic has already a very creditable system, but needs somo additional lines end some extensions. But the projects axe coming up in astonishing numbers, far beyond tho needs of the country, their promoters U-ing stimulated by the concessions and guarantees which the government has been making. Public Opinion. Handwork and Braia Caltare. Professor Joseph Lo Couto declares that for every grade of culture, whether of the individual or of the race, thero is a cor responding grade of handwork necessary for the best brain culture. In the child of pro school age and iu the savage and in palaeolithic man. it is tho simple use of tho hand, or agisted by rudo Implements; in tho schoolboy or girl, as also in the next higher grade of races, it is by the uso of those finer instruments which we call tools; and iu tho university, as in the most civilized races, it is by tho use of scienliiic instruments and machines. Boston Budget. The Dictionary at Hand. A dictionary (an' unabridged one if the means of tho family permit) should have a place in every household: it should be kept in full sight, not shut away In a bookcase or clotot. If there aro children they should bo taught tho proper uso of it. and encouraged to turn to it whenever thoy bear in conversation or find iu read ing a word the meaning cf which the do not understand. In writing also, if in the least uncertain as to the correct spell ing of a word, or as to tho propriety of using it in that place, recourse should bo had to the dictionary. Good Housekeep ing. Growth of tho Florists Trade. At the florists' convention in New York ono of the addresses was on tho wonder ful growth of the florists' trade in this country. In 1840 Isaac McKenna was one of the few florists in New York. He worked like a slave, standing all day long on Wall street with a basket of flowers on his arm, shouting LJ.- wares and cou fratulating himself when fortune smiled on him to the extent of $2 per day. Now some 90,000 buds a year are sold in New York alone, and thousands of stores are devoted to the sale of flowers. Chicago Herald. The B. & AL R. R. have arranged to run several Harvest excursions from the east to Nebraska points, including Co lumbus. Any persons desirous of advis ing friends in the east of these excur sions can have them advised from onr Omaha office by addressing J. Francis, GtenT Passenger Agt or by advising C. as-JTEL Barrel!, Agt, Columbus, Neb. He that kners nothing doubts nothing At this season of the year people can not be too careful about keeping their bowels regular. Bilious and malarial diseases axe often brought on by allow ing the bowels to become torpid. An occasional dose of St. Patrick's -Pills is all that would be required, and might prevent serious sickness. For sale by Dowty & Becher. Green wood makes a hot fire. English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swolen throats-, coughs, etc Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by C. B. Stillman, druggist, Co umbus. 6-ly He that marries late, marries ill. The Passenger Department of the Union Pacific, "The Overland Route," has issued a neat little pamphlet, pocket size, entitled "National Platform Book," containing the democratic, republican and prohibition platforms, together with the addresses of acceptance of Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison and Clin ton B. Fisk; also tabulated tables show ing the plurality vote, the electoral vote and an analysis of the vote as cast for Cleveland and .Blaine in 18&1. This book is just what is needed at this time and should be in- tho hands of every voter. It' plainly sets. forth what each party has- to offer and every reader enn draw his own comparisons. Sent to any address on application. Address, J. S. Tebbets. Gen'l Passenger' Ag't, Union Pacific Ry, OmahNeb. J ill mm i I He that hath not the craft; let him shut up the shop'. CATARRH IN IS head-It qj annnnnB4V"al Try the Cure Ely's Cream Balm CaeansoafbelfasalFass3g03. Al lays Iriflp.r.inintiopHoaia tiio Sores. Seetoros tho Sensoa of Taste, Small and Hooting. AatlIcIoisfinTllctliatsi9ni!liuMSTlli Is agreeable. PcicoCOc. ct Dnutsiat or hy snail. ELY rJXTnERS,6CttnnStJuW York. Thisis the Top of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. AH others, similar are imitation- .This exact Label is on each Pearl Top Chimney. A dealer may say and think he has others as good. BUT HE HAS NOT. irEtstiipoiMne exact-junseianu op. F0! S-'J-l EKYWHERc. MAOECSIT BY :0.A.W8BEIHtB3r1B3SBAPI. Contains lso full and complete Ikes of both HABRIS0N &M0RT0N tie irest ttamlard beams. IIUM. with nemeroo tnperh por traits. Amoojfthe authors will be found the names uf Sena tors Frye.Chaud.cr. IUtey. Inalls. John P. Loor. popular n-gov-itf Mass.. McKmleyof oino. wntrs on theftr. Henry Cabot Lwlue. and a numtr of ethers of -a like prom jnce. The cniy autktntic Camfitif Kcak. indorud tht Aj.X. Cam. Ion'tlinIedtoeetanrother. Dn. tancenotunderance aswepay all freight charges. Send SO cents In ic. stamps for outfit and letl!eflratlnthsaeld.or vrttefnr full particulars and Special Terms ent free to all. WINTER CO., ruu-. 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BtUy4a on emm in, w m ot wv tba world aad oar Una Bae of CStlir . WepaTaU.prfr.leU,jaa. mtmBHunsusf ww, aiiwa " RICHLY HEWARnEDa tin who retul thw anil then act; they will find honorable em tiloTment tliat will not take them from their nomm anil familim. The profits aro larse and snre for every indnatnoua person, many nave made and are now making several hundred dollars a month, it is eany for any one to make $5 and upwards per day, who is willing to work Either xex, j onnK or old; capi tal not needed; we start you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader, can do it as well as any one. Write to n at one for full particular!!, which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, Me. deciSy rAUBIX & liKADSIIAW. (Successor to Kiiublt tt Ilitshell), BRICK MAKERS ! tr. ontractors and bouders wilt find onr brick first-class and ottered at reasonable rates. We are also prepared to do idl kinds of brick work. ltirnajSm Discoveries More Valuable than tiold Are SANTA ABIE, the California dis covery for Consumption and Diseases of the throat, Chest and Lungs, and CALI FORNIA CAT-R-CURE, tho only guar anteed enre for Catarrh, Cold in the Head and kindred complaints. They are sold at $1 per package, or three for 82.50, and are recommended and used by the leading physicians of the Pacific Coast. Not Becret compounds. Guaranteed hy Dowty & Becher. A morning snn, and a wine-bred child, and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well Skepticism. By reason of the chronic incredulity in which many men pass their lives they miss half the good of this world. They seem to think that doubt and unbelief are proofs of wisdom, and through fear of being' deceived reject much that is true and good. To such minds the state ment that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a real and proven cure for all diseases caused by torpid liver, bad blood or scrofulous humors carries with it its own condemnation. They do not believe it, apparently, because we say so; and yet what more, or less, than this can we do? We know the facts, and if we did not make public the great value of this remedy few would profit by it. We try to do our duty in the matter and it remains for the doubter who needs help to overcome his prejudice and give it a trial. 8500 reward for an incurable case of chronic nasal catarrh offered by the manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Who praiseth blame St. Paul. St. Peter, doth not Cholera Morbus is one of the most painful and dangerous diseases, many deaths result from it each year, usually because it is not properly treated. The most severe cases may be cured, by us ing Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It never fails. Sold by Dowty & Becher. The rich knows not who is his friend. An Absoiate Care. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT MENT is only put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for the ORIGINAL AB1TINE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty. & Becher at 25 cents per box by mail 30 cents. mar7y He that passeth a winter's, day, capes sa enemy. es- LHMEX nVV.v$"- . I sssssssy. y " uajui bK.'K Jtt mXK'j XwV ;mm aW r9 BwTR!aW ft B I '"CsSaVKHsssKksS v 2KsssKaW- '-BbTS 3- Zm 'iaMssaaDHssK?' J. --lSSSSSSSjBJBSSBStlBSSSSJrK.ftl''r'. . TBSSSSSSSSBKEBSBSJSBBSM r alaiawnaaaV:' ' v BSBSaSKgaBSBBBBBBBBBBSw;'..'. 'fSSBaBSBWSSSlSSBSSBSSBSSSBHy rsirssssssssita fc-Hfe NEBRASKA ... i FAMILY : JOURNAL. A Weekly Newspaper issiei every Wefliesiar. 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A POSITIVE CURK ior RHEUMATISM K AC fnranycaie ihU trratiucnt fail, to cure or Drip, iimteat diorry n aanal. i Bjcjicioe. one uof gives reur; a lew Sows remote fc-ter and paia In Joints ; Cure onraplrtcd in 5 to T dais. Smd nte- nknt of eae with stamp Air Circulara. Call, or wilrr, Dr.HENDERSONtlOaW.ttbSt.KMaasCity.Ms- for an Incurable case of Catarrh I by toe proprietors of II. SAItr Omitt KMEITa. SysaatesM S Catania. Headache. obstruction of noss. discharges failing; into throat, sometimes profuse, watery, ana acna. st others, thick, tenacious, raucous, purulent, bloody and putrid : eyes weak, ringing in ears, deafness, difficulty of clearias; throat, expecto ration of offensive saattar; breath offensive: smell and taste impaired, aad aeneral debility. Only a few of these symptosss likely to be pres ent at once. Thousands or casss result la con sumption, and ead in tha grave. By its miM. sootainr. aad healing properties. Dr. Sajre's Remedy cur the worst cases. 60c lYmcofe ' aVSST a a a oaaatv IbjciPiix Aata ftte Harmless, TJoeqiialedsaaLlver mil. Smallet,cbeap- est. easiest to take. ) .)J?e Cure SUck Headache, BIIIom Headache, BHnlnessw CesMUaatlea, ladlffeaUea, Ilea Attacks, and all derangements of the stomach and bowels. Scts-bydruggist. 6O0O Book Agents wanted to sell THB Lira AND PUBLIC 8X&VICX8 Q $ over Cleveland Foil an4 complete from Ua Wvjkood t. kl nomination ta St, 1Mb, with pereoaal nmlalaMane, tocid.oto and anirtitoe. rmmatly UlBetmlmt with eteel poriralie a4 woo4 fntfa. Tto keek atoeMlalm a epr Portrait mafall and raspwa LOT Or MBS. CXaVKLAITD. metber -IU. a complete htefrathT ef AXLXX O. THU&MilT. TUa to la emkf. , mmnmMc 14. Do,t be ladaced to any other. There will CheMrha aeeathorted Una, hat thia la the rleat one. Dto eanehladeraaee,aa we pay alt treaaportatlna chareae. BenS 10 emu m le. etamne and he the Snt m taw SoM. aad then reap laeeohJeakereaet. 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