A thousand dollars reward was yesterday offered for the Whitechapel murder in London. The fiend has added two more women to his victims, nor left a trace as to his identity. The peculiar mutilation of the bodies, the silence in which they are slain�no out-cry�the impenetrable mystery that envelopes the assassin�all tend to make a case almost entirely similar to the series of Austin woman murders three years ago, and which, like the Whitechapel butcheries, have never yet been explained.

The Fort Worth Gazette says: �When the mysterious murders occurred in Austin a few years ago people were greatly shocked, but it was �Texas, you know,� and anything might be expected in that horribly wild place. Now they are duplicated in the most populous city in the world.� Not only that, but the murders in London are committed before midnight and on a much traveled thoroughfare, while in Austin they were perpetrated at a late hour and in sequestered corners. Mystery is a capricious mistress.

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Official Documents: Parliamentary Debates - July 18 1889

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Press Reports: Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser - 5 October 1888

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Press Reports: Echo - 13 October 1888

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Press Reports: Illustrated Police News - 22 September 1888

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Press Reports: Macclesfield Courier and Herald - 17 November 1888

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Press Reports: Morning Advertiser - 13 October 1888

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Press Reports: New York Tribune - 02 October 1888

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Press Reports: St. James Budget - 6 October 1888

Press Reports: Star - 11 September 1888

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